Grade 1 winner Shakin It Up has been retired by owners Mike Pegram and Dennis Cardoza and will stand the 2015 breeding season at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. The 4-year-old son of Midnight Lute will stand for a $10,000 fee, payable when the foal stands and nurses.
The Fugue, a four-time Group 1 winner and the runner-up in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, was retired Thursday after sustaining a foreleg injury in her July 5 start in the Coral Eclipse Stakes.
Grade 1 winner Streaming has been retired from racing due to a hind leg injury and will join the broodmare band at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Darley operation has acquired Group 1 winner Slade Power with plans to retire him to stud in Ireland at the end of his 2014 campaign.
Secret Heart, the dam of 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Pluck, died over the weekend at Denali Stud in Paris, Ky. The 15-year-old Fort Wood mare was in foal to first-year stallion Point of Entry at the time of her death; a cause of death has yet to be determined.
Lammtarra, a European champion and pensioned stallion, died at Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England, according to a release on Godolphin’s website posted on Monday. He was 22.
For the past year or so, Daily Racing Form has featured an occasional freestyle “Catching Up With” column wherein a reporter writes about an individual that piques his or her interest. Me, I like doing horses … and believe me when I say, I’m selective.
In 1976-77, a red comet called Blushing Groom streaked across the French racing firmament, winning seven of his nine French starts from about five furlongs to about a mile. The son of the erratic Nasrullah stallion Red God lost his first start only through inexperience and his last when he did not find a clear passage until too late in a farcically slow Prix Jacques le Marois.
The state that produced the star 3-year-old California Chrome may have a breeding industry shaking off the effects of a grueling decline in recent years.
Super Saver, winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, was represented by his first winner as I Spent It took his career debut Wednesday at Belmont Park.
