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Connect, a son of Curlin, has Grade 2 Risen Star runner-up Chip Honcho looking to punch his Kentucky Derby ticket in Saturday's Louisiana Derby – and Connect's sireline will need to help balance out a sprint-type female family.
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The successful stallion Stormy Atlantic, who spent the last several years of his life back at his birthplace, Bridlewood Farm in Florida, has died from the infirmities of old age at 32, the farm reported Tuesday evening.
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Serena's Song, a champion and first-ballot Hall of Famer who went on to be a blue-hen broodmare, died Wednesday morning at her longtime home of Denali Stud in Paris, Ky. She officially turned 34 this year, and would have reached her foaling date on April 4.
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Quietside, winner of last year’s Grade 2 Fantasy at Oaklawn, has been retired and is scheduled to be bred to Nyquist, according to her trainer, John Ortiz. The millionaire was seventh in the Grade 2 Azeri last weekend at Oaklawn, one start after running third in the track’s Grade 3 Bayakoa won by champion Nitrogen.
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La Cara, a multiple Grade 1 winner of $1.2 million, is going to be retired to the breeding shed, according to her trainer, Mark Casse. He said she is scheduled to be bred to Not This Time.
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This weekend's lone Kentucky Derby points race is the Virginia Derby. The morning-line favorite is multiple graded stakes-placed Buetane, a seven-figure juvenile last year by a rising young sire and from a female family that has knocked on the door in the classics.
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The Kentucky stallion division of Shadwell Farm, which has made major cuts to its U.S. landholdings in the years following the death of its founder, is now for sale.
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Virginia-bred millionaire Gigante is the winner of eight stakes in a career that began in 2022, highlighted, fittingly, by a victory in the Grade 2 Secretariat Stakes in 2023 – a race named for Virginia’s most famous son - at its only live Thoroughbred venue, Colonial Downs.
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Gun Runner is the sire of three horses in this week's Derby Watch Top 20 – Paladin, Further Ado, and Brant. While Paladin awaits the Grade 1 Blue Grass, Further Ado begins his 3-year-old campaign in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby on Saturday. On the opposite coast, Brant launches his season in the Grade 2 San Felipe.
The first mares covered by new stallions Highland Falls and First Mission have been reported in-foal marking an exciting start to their inaugural seasons in Kentucky.
