Silic, winner of the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Mile and a California-based sire, has died of chronic renal failure at Dr. Ben and Kayleeta Davis’ Pacific Coast Thoroughbreds in Hemet, Calif. The son of Sillery was 18.
Multiple stakes winner Beau Choix has been retired and will enter stud in 2014 at Mill Ridge Farm near Lexington, Ky.
I fell in love with Unbridled’s Song the first time I saw him at the 1994 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings. Though already more than 16 hands, he moved with such fluid grace that it was obvious he possessed tremendous potential despite less-than-perfect forelegs.
Sheikh Fahad al Thani has acquired Longholes Stud in Cheveley, near Newmarket, England, as a base for his expanding Thoroughbred operation.
On a weekend when several of this year’s most successful sires continued to reap Grade 1 wins from top progeny – most prominently, Awesome Again with Game On Dude in the Pacific Classic, and the late Unbridled’s Song with Will Take Charge in the Travers Stakes – an intriguing young stallion joined the club. Darley’s Street Boss was represented by a fast-closing colt who finally delivered on his potential in Capo Bastone, who took the Grade 1 King’s Bishop Stakes at Saratoga Race Course at odds of 28.25-to-1.
Shuttle stallion Indygo Shiner was euthanized the morning of Aug. 28 in Argentina after suffering an inoperable ruptured stomach. The son of A.P. Indy, who was 15, was about to begin another Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Haras La Quebrada in Buenos Aires. He stood the Northern Hemisphere season at Hill 'n' Dale Farm near Lexington, Ky.
Former jockey Donna Barton Brothers will host the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s 28th annual National Awards Dinner on Friday, Sept. 6, at the Fasig-Tipton facility in Lexington, Ky.
Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey, who suffered a life-threatening injury in training and then underwent colic surgery last month, faced what has been deemed a “major complication” in his recovery on Monday evening.
Well-bred Indiana stallion Star Cat was represented by his first winner when Purrpurrpurr took a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight event at Indiana Downs on Aug. 23.
English Group 1 winner and French stallion Creachadoir was represented by his first winner at stud on August 25 when What About Carlo won a one mile maiden auction stakes at Goodwood.
