Helissio, European Horse of the Year and winner of the 1996 Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, died Oct. 8 of a suspected heart attack, Racing Post reports. He was 20 years old.
Valid Expectations, the all-time leading sire in Texas who is now 20, has been retired from commercial stud duty, confirmed Danny Shifflett, general manager of Lane’s End Texas. Shifflett said the horse arrived Tuesday at Mt. Brilliant Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he will reside as the sole property of Greg Goodman.
Grade 1 winner Liaison has been retired and, as previously announced, will begin his stud career in 2014 at B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. He will stand for $10,000, stands and nurses, while participating in the farm’s ‘Share The Upside’ program.
David Greathouse, a longtime breeder and consignor in central Kentucky and an integral member of both his family’s Glencrest Farm and the Four Star Sales operation, died on Tuesday following a battle with cancer. He was 63.
Multiple graded stakes winner Chatain will relocate to continue his stud career at Whispering Oaks Farm-Louisiana Stallion Station North in Carencro, La., as the property of a partnership.
Champion Hansen has been sold to continue his stud career in South Korea, becoming the latest stallion exported to that country’s burgeoning racing and breeding industry.
The Jockey Club and the Organizacion Sudamericana de Fomento del Sangre Pira de Carrera (O.S.A.F.), which promotes Thoroughbred breeding and racing in nine South American countries, will host a Pan American Conference in New York City from June 3-6, 2015.
Epsom Derby winner and sire North Light will relocate to stand at Lanwades Stud near Newmarket, England, for 2014.
Aqlaam, a Group 1 winner and a promising first-crop stallion for Sheikh Hamdan al-Maktoum’s Shadwell Stud, died Saturday after treatments for an infection proved unsuccessful. The Oasis Dream horse was 8.
The victory of Discreet Cat’s daughter Secret Compass in the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes on Sept. 28 at Santa Anita confirms that the 10-year-old son of Forestry is a young stallion who must be taken seriously.
