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Frankel continues to build an impressive legacy as he has moved on from a stellar racing career to a stellar sire career. Meanwhile, his own late sire, Galileo, continues to extend his influence.
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Multiple Grade 1 winner and successful sire Lion Heart has died in Turkey, where he has stood at stud for more than a decade. The Jockey Club of Turkey wrote in a release that the stallion “died due to circulatory disorder caused by heart failure.” The son of the Storm Cat horse Tale of the Cat was 22.
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Godolphin and Juddmonte, two of the world’s foremost breeding operations, are fresh off major performances by leading runners – and potential future stallions – at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. They now move on to another of the world’s great fixtures, this week’s renowned Royal Ascot meeting, with runners by their respective internationally leading sires on tap.
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With every passing month, the loss of champion Arrogate early in his stallion career becomes starker. It was apparent again Saturday evening, as Arcangelo won the Belmont Stakes, conferring classic sire status on Arrogate posthumously.
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It was like mother, like daughter in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park. Cavorting, a three-time Grade 1 winner in New York, captured the race in 2016. Her first foal, Clairiere, is now a two-time Phipps winner after claiming Saturday's edition.
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There are few names better to find in the pedigree of a Belmont Stakes candidate than Tapit – and he has an outsized mark on Saturday's renewal.
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Tapit, Quality Road, and Into Mischief – all elite-quality sires – are from sirelines descended from one of Secretariat's influential daughters, as Big Red's indelible flame continues to burn through the decades, 50 years after his dominant performances to end the Triple Crown drought.
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Dorth Vader, who upset the Grade 2 Davona Dale at odds of 45-1 earlier this winter at Gulfstream Park and most recently finished a game fifth after being hung wide pressing the early pace in the Kentucky Oaks, has been transferred from trainer Michael Yates to George Weaver in preparation for her upcoming start a week from Friday at Belmont Park in the Grade 1 Acorn.
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American Rascal was born to international royalty, as his sire and first two dams are champions. He'll look to begin growing into that legacy when, off an impressive debut victory, he targets the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes on June 22 at the Royal Ascot meeting.
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Kentucky Derby winner Mage tested the capacity limits of the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs, as he is owned by the four-pronged partnership of OGMA Investments, Ramiro Restrepo, Sterling Racing, and Commonwealth, the latter involving several hundred partners. But, improbably, the winner's stand for the Preakness Stakes two weeks later looked even more likely to overflow as the owners of National Treasure took their turn with the Woodlawn Vase.
