Romain Malhouitre has been named vice president and general manager of Runnymede Farm Inc. in Lexington, Ky. has been named vice president and general manager of Runnymede Farm Inc. in Lexington, Ky.
Thoroughbred Charities of America will honor prominent owners John and Debby Oxley and the Retired Racehorse Training Project at its annual select stallion season auction on Jan. 4 at the Keeneland Entertainment Center in Lexington, Ky.
Millennium Farms in Lexington, Ky., has announced the advertised fees for its 2014 stallion roster, led by Even the Score, sire of Grade 1 winners Dullahan and Take the Points.
Maxios, a multiple Group 1 winner in France, has been retired from racing and will stand the 2014 season at Gestut Farhof in Germany for an advertised fee of $13,546 (10,000 Euros), Racing Post reports.
For people in one nation, Feel So Good’s seven-length win on Sept. 6, 2012, was considered a nice effort in a $35,000 maiden-claiming race on a Thursday card at Calder Race Course. For those in another, it was history being written. The chestnut gelding had become the first South Korean-bred to win a race outside of his home country, a watershed moment for a national racing program making strides to gain recognition on a global scale.
English Channel, 2007’s champion turf male, drew notices as a young stallion in 2012 when he finished fourth on the North American second-crop sire list and 13th on the turf sire list. This year, the 11-year-old Smart Strike horse has continued to stand out among a good group of third-crop sires that includes Street Sense, Scat Daddy, and Hard Spun, and has moved up to seventh on the turf sire list. English Channel’s sons and daughters have racked up 11 more stakes wins through Nov. 24, the latest coming in a 45.70-1 upset when Potomac River took the Grade 3 River City Handicap last Saturday on the Churchill Downs turf for his first stakes victory.
Young sire Exhi will relocate to Michael and Laurel Byrne’s Park Stud near Orangeville, Ont., for the 2014 breeding season, joining first-year sire Nephrite on the stallion roster.
Breeders' Cup Turf winner St. Nicholas Abbey, who suffered a career-ending injury in late July, is battling what has been termed as a "life-threatening" case of laminitis.
Young stallions Talent Search and Doubles Partner will stand the 2014 season at Glenn and Becky Brok’s Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa. Both will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500 live foal.
Grade 1 winner Swagger Jack will enter stud in 2014 at Millennium Farms in Lexington, Ky. The 5-year-old Smart Strike horse, who will stand as part of a partnership, has an advertised fee of $7,500.
