Ultimate Eagle, who won three graded stakes and earned over $540,000 on the racetrack, has been retired to stand at at Rick Taylor’s Special T Thoroughbreds in Temecula, Calif. A 2014 fee for the 5-year-old Mizzen Mast horse will be announced at a later date.
What is the world’s most international race meeting? For many years, the Breeders’ Cup meeting could claim that title, but that is no longer true. The Dubai World Cup meeting, which benefits from easier access to Southern Hemisphere racing countries as well as more total purse money, now serves as a showplace for horses bred and trained in more different countries than any other meeting.
In the days leading up to the Keeneland September yearling sale, the Pauls Mill shed row was a popular destination for two reasons. First, the consignment of Ben Walden Jr. included a half-brother to Grade 1 winners Mine That Bird and Dullahan. Second, he was serving pizza.
Stakes-placed winner Bind has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Jay Adcock’s Red River Farm in Coushatta, La., standing the 2014 breeding season for an advertised fee of $1,500.
Brethren, a Grade 3-winning half brother to Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, has been retired from racing and will make his stallion debut in 2014 at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla.
We Miss Artie, became the co-centerpiece of the biggest breeding story of FallStars Weekend as the second half of a Grade 1 double for young WinStar stallion Artie Schiller in Keeneland’s two marquee 1 1/16-mile stakes for juveniles. We Miss Artie captured the Dixiana Breeders’ Futurity on a rainy Saturday with a late rally under John Velazquez, scoring his second win from four starts and rebounding from a disappointing effort in the Grade 2 With Anticipation at Saratoga. One day earlier, Canadian shipper My Conquestadory weaved her way through traffic and accelerated quickly in the final sixteenth to win the Darley Alcibiades going away.
The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program’s 2013 Thoroughbred of the Year, Loveable Rascal, will be honored in the winner’s circle at Thistledown before the fourth race on Friday, Oct. 11.
Grade 2 winner Bear’s Kid will relocate to Colebrook Farm in Uxbridge, Ontario, for the 2014 breeding season and will stand for an advertised fee of $2,410 ($2,500 Canadian).
Peter Pryor DVM, a Lexington, Ky.-based veterinarian whose clients included Lane’s End Farm, died of esophageal cancer on Sept. 28 at the age of 58.
Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky. has released its advertised stud fees for the 2014 breeding season.
