Workers from several of central Kentucky's prominent horse farms are set to compete in a soccer tournament raising funds for Blue Grass Farms Charities. The tournament will be held June 23-29 at Dixiana Farm in Lexington, Ky.
French classic-winning filly Beauty Parlour has been retired to become a broodmare.
The first starter for multiple Grade 2 winner and freshman sire King of the Roxy was a winner on June 16 when Prince of the Roxy drew away to win a maiden claiming race at Lone Star Park.
Millkom, a top-level winner in Europe and the U.S. who later sired Grade/Group 1 winner Milk It Mick, died on Monday at Girsonfield Stud in Northumberland, England. He was 22.
Cornett-IMS will assume the lead on marketing and communications for Lane's End Farm, the Versailles, Ky., breeding and racing operation announced Tuesday.
Although Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom faltered in his attempt to make history at Royal Ascot, Kentucky breeding still played a prominent role as the famed race meeting opened on Tuesday in England.
The young sire Dunkirk, who continues to find commercial success as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June sale of 2-year-olds in training unfolds, was recently represented by his first two winners on the track, in Mexico and in Washington, respectively.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Ontario Division honored its champion owners, breeders and sires of 2012 on Friday at Copper Creek Golf Club in Kleinberg, Ontario.
The return of Verrazano to top form in Sunday’s Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth only adds to the intrigue going forward, as does Code West’s continued improvement, evidenced in his first stakes win at Churchill Downs. Both sophomores, racing for top connections, have to be considered alongside Orb, Oxbow, Palace Malice, and sleeper Normandy Invasion as contenders for the elite 3-year-old stakes later this summer. Positions in the older male handicap division are just as much in flux with the Breeders’ Cup four months away, and two of last year’s most popular horses are right back in the discussion after sensational performances at Churchill Downs and Hollywood Park.
Lent, a half-brother to Breeders' Cup Classic winner Fort Larned, set the stage for a big night for his connections, defeating a field of well-bred runners in a maiden special weight event Saturday night at Churchill Downs, just hours before his famed older relative romped in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap.
