Azamour, Europe’s champion older horse of 2005, was euthanized on Saturday after sustaining a major injury at the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in County Kildare, Ireland, Racing Post reports.
Great sire lines do not always follow only the obvious routes. No one is surprised that three-time leading sire Giant’s Causeway, the best son of dual leading sire Storm Cat, is well on his way to establishing a thriving branch of his sire’s male line. When Harlan retired to Stone Farm in 1995, however, it is doubtful if even his co-owner and co-breeder, Arthur B. Hancock III, envisioned Storm Cat’s oldest Grade 1-winning colt at the head of a branch of the Storm Cat male line.
The ideal racehorse foot, as presented in textbook illustrations, rarely occurs in nature. Each foot, even on the same horse, is influenced by a number of variables, including the horse’s conformation, the structure of the individual leg, moisture content of the hoof components, and athletic demands.
Grade 1 winner Bull Inthe Heather was euthanized Friday at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., due to the infirmities of old age.
Old Friends and New Vocations, two Thoroughbred aftercare organizations with major presences in the Lexington, Ky., area, have entered into a partnership to allow both to better place retired racehorses, depending on the horse’s specific needs.
Willow Woodman, dam of three stakes winners, died March 31 due to the infirmities of old age. The Woodman mare was 23.
Multiple Grade 2 winner Cluster of Stars was named the 2013 New York-bred Horse of the Year on Tuesday by New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.
Grade 2 winner My Gi Gi has been retired from racing, and will be bred to Medaglia d’Oro with the intent to sell the mare at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.
Mutakddim, a Group 2-placed stakes winner and a prominent sire in North and South America, died at Haras La Quebrada in Buenos Aires, Argentina due to the infirmities of old age, Racing Post reports. The Seeking the Gold horse was 23.
Among the wobbly-legged foals taking their first steps early in 2012, two were greeted with royal-baby levels of anticipation by the racing world. Those are the first foals, both colts, of Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta – Horse of the Year honorees in 2009 and 2010 and among the most popular runners of the modern era. Two years later, both colts are immersed in their early lessons at training centers in the Ocala, Fla. area, preparing for their own racing careers for the connections who campaigned their famed dams.
