Bluegrass Cat to shuttle to Uruguay
Grade 1 winner Bluegrass Cat will stand the upcoming Southern Hemisphere season at Norman Fox’s Haras Lacala in Uruguay.
DRF Breeding StaffJun 12, 2014
Grade 1 winner Bluegrass Cat will stand the upcoming Southern Hemisphere season at Norman Fox’s Haras Lacala in Uruguay.
Commendable, winner of the 2000 Belmont Stakes, died in Korea on April 10 due to complications from colic.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Goldencents will stand at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., following his retirement at the end of his 4-year-old campaign.
Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) has awarded grants totaling $512,105 to 74 Thoroughbred industry-related non-profits that work to uphold TCA’s mission to provide a better life for Thoroughbreds.
Warning Flag, a stakes winner in Ireland and Hong Kong, will retire to stud for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Highview Stud in New Zealand. The son of War Front joins Declaration of War, War Command, and The Factor among the sons of the leading U.S. stallion to announce plans to stand in Australia or New Zealand.
Utopia, a multiple Japanese Group 1 winner, has been purchased by Turkish bloodstock agent Tarik Tekce on behalf of Serdar Kemal Ozcolak, who will stand him in Turkey.
Tonalist’s Belmont win redirected the pedigree spotlight away from the compelling tale of California Chrome’s modest origins and back to the foundation of American Thoroughbred breeding – central Kentucky – and to that industry’s most successful young stallion.
This wasn’t the first time the Evans family has been involved in a failed Triple Crown bid – but the view from the other side is a little bit different. Tonalist, owned by Robert S. Evans, edged Commissioner by a nose to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday in New York, as dual classic winner California Chrome finished in a dead heat for fourth, extending the Triple Crown drought for another year.
Since the end of World War II in 1945, only seven broodmares had produced three (or, in one extraordinary case, four) winners of classic races in major Northern Hemisphere racing countries, excluding Japan. The victory of Final Score, by Dylan Thomas, not only added the name of her dam, Holy Moon, by Hernando, to that most exclusive of broodmare clubs but, in fact, inaugurated a new sorority with a membership of one.
An analysis of the leading North American stallions in 2013 by both progeny earnings and number of mares bred shows that the typical successful Thoroughbred in the U.S. and Canada possesses the lowest progeny average winning distance (AWD) figure in decades, one that comparatively finishes behind major breeding hubs around the world.