Repole Stable’s Stopchargingmaria took control from the outset and was never challenged in a sharp first-out score Friday on Saratoga Race Course's opening day, winning by 5 1/2 lengths under John Velazquez.
Robin Scully, whose Clovelly Farms bred recent Group 1 winner Elusive Kate, 2003 Breeders’ Cup Classic and 2004 Dubai World Cup winner Pleasantly Perfect, and numerous other high-class runners, died on July 12 in England, the Blood-Horse reported this week. Scully was 89.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday upheld a $66 million judgment against the ClassicStar Farms mare-lease program, its parent company, and three owners, the Associated Press reported. The federal court found that the sales and tax benefits of the program were “dramatically oversold,” and that the operators deliberately sought to mislead investors.
Ben’s Cat is not the only renowned product to come from the fertile region in Maryland that King Leatherbury long has called home. Roadside stands overflowing with plump crabs or Silver Queen corn are the signature staples that help make Anne Arundel County and its slice of the Chesapeake Bay area the great place that it is.
The rising popularity of ownership syndicates has made having a stake in a horse more accessible than ever. But make no mistake: The Thoroughbred business still is a rich man’s game.
The late Cynthia Phipps maintained a much smaller broodmare band than her brother, Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, but she left a mark in breeding nonetheless. The most recent evidence came on July 13 when Boisterous, a horse she bred out of a family she helped develop, won the Man o’ War Stakes, his first Grade 1 victory.
Desert Code, winner of the inaugural Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, was represented by his first winner on Wednesday when his daughter Moving Desert broke her maiden on opening day at Del Mar.
Heavy Breathing, a Grade 3-placed winner and a full brother to young New York sire Frost Giant, will debut at stud in 2014, standing at Dutchess View Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y. for a fee to be announced at a later date.
Dosage proponents Steve Roman and Steve Miller have identified the late stallions Gone West and Montjeu as the system’s newest chefs-de-race, according to a report in Racing Post.
Afleet Alex, the champion 3-year-old male of 2005, has settled into a steady stallion career at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky., though he has yet to sire a true breakout horse.
