Schiaparelli, Grade 2 winner, retired
Grade 2-winning racemare Schiaparelli has been retired and will ship from her California base to become a broodmare in Kentucky, according to a release from owner RanJan Racing.
DRF Breeding StaffJul 12, 2013
Grade 2-winning racemare Schiaparelli has been retired and will ship from her California base to become a broodmare in Kentucky, according to a release from owner RanJan Racing.
Multiple Grade 1 winner and pensioned stallion Sewickley died July 10 in Maryland due to complications of colic, the Blood-Horse reports. The son of Star de Naskra was 28.
Grade 1 winner The Deputy will relocate to Cedar Brook Farm in West Union, Ohio for the 2014 breeding season, standing for an advertised fee of $2,000.
Awesome Patriot, a stakes-winning full-brother to Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow, will begin stud duty in 2014 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Kentucky Derby winner and champion Animal Kingdom is preparing to travel to his new home in Australia, where local breeders will have their first opportunity to inspect him next month.
Clarence Scharbauer Jr. has been adding to his highlight reel the past month. The man behind Alysheba celebrated his 88th birthday on July 6 with a stakes win at Lone Star Park. A few weeks earlier, he accounted for his first Churchill Downs stakes win in 25 years when homebred Fiftyshadesofgold romped in the $113,400 Debutante Stakes.
Bahamian Squall may turn out to be Gone West’s last hurrah as a sire, but his many Grade 1- and Group 1-winning descendants ensure that Gone West’s name will not soon be forgotten.
During a 50-minute span on July 6, Adena Springs stallion Ghostzapper was represented by a trio of graded stakes winners at three different tracks in one of those thrilling bursts of productivity that make bloodstock aficionados sit up and take notice. In Ghostzapper’s case, such an accomplishment was expected from the day he was retired to stud following one of the most brilliant racing careers of the past two decades.
Multiple graded stakes winner Uh Oh Bango will enter stud for the 2014 season at E.A. Ranches in Ramona, Calif. A stud fee will be announced soon.
Jockey Club Racecourses, the operator of 15 major tracks in the United Kingdom, will award trophies to every breeder of a Group 1 winner at each of its properties going forward, Racing Post reports.