The Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies has crowned the divisional Eclipse Award champion in 26 of its previous 29 runnings. This year's renewal, to be contested Saturday at Santa Anita Park, figures to continue that trend, as it brings together East Coast standouts Sweet Reason - the morning line favorite - and Artemis Agrotera, and West Coast stars Secret Compass and She's a Tiger.
Adena Springs stallion Awesome Again is in rarified air – and his son and fellow sire Ghostzapper has a chance to join him when the Breeders’ Cup Classic is run Nov. 2 at Santa Anita Park.
Harlan’s Holiday, a multiple Grade 1 winner and sire of champion Shanghai Bobby, was euthanized on Friday at Haras Firmamento Farm in Mar de Plata, Argentina, where he was standing the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
Smoke Glacken, the champion sprinter of 1997 and sire of 16 graded or group stakes winners, has been pensioned from stallion duty at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky.
A federal judge in New Mexico issued a ruling Friday allowing two horsemeat facilities to begin operations next week, striking down a lawsuit filed by The Humane Society of the United States and other groups and clearing the way for horse slaughter to resume in the U.S. for the first time since 2007.
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Fort Larned, winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic, has been purchased by Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs and will stand at Adena Springs Kentucky in Paris, Ky. after his final career start on Saturday in the 2013 Classic.
The standout among first-year sires in Europe has been the horse who came closest to beating Sea The Stars during his undefeated 3-year-old season: Mastercraftsman, who forced the champion into an all-out drive for his one-length victory in the Group 1 Juddmonte International Stakes.
A number of participants in the Breeders’ Cup have pledged a percentage of their purse earnings in their respective races to the New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program.
Grade 2 winner Cool Coal Man will relocate to Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., for the 2014 breeding season, and will stand for an advertised fee of $3,500 when the foal stands and nurses.
Thirteen 2-year-olds will line up for the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Friday at Santa Anita Park, in which morning-line favorite Bobby's Kitten could help cap off a huge year for sire Kitten's Joy with a victory.
