Wende Laine Stone “Happy” Bell, wife of Darley America president Jimmy Bell, died on May 9 at her home in Lexington, Ky., according to an obituary released by the Kerr Brothers Funeral Home. She was 56.
Phil Capuano, a longtime Maryland horseman and active member of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, died on May 10 at age 80.
The cleverly-named filly Tomei scored by 1 3/4 lengths in her second career start on Sunday at Churchill Downs, becoming the first winner for Group 1 winner and freshman sire Thewayyouare.
Kentucky Derby winner Orb gave Spendthrift Farm stallion Malibu Moon his first classic winner, resulting in a spate of coverage in leading media outlets detailing his rise from modest beginnings to his current position as a leading national sire.
The late Storm Cat had plenty of graded stakes winners during his stallion career—110, in fact—but Stray Cat’s rallying effort to win by a nose on Sunday in the Grade 3 Red Cell Remington Park Distance Challenge Stakes gave the legendary sire a new milestone: his first graded stakes winner in the Quarter Horse realm.
Conor Foley's Oracle Bloodstock, based in Lexington, Ky., will manage all bloodstock and racing operations for Donegal Racing, the partnership's president, Jerry Crawford, has announced.
There was a moment several years ago when it would have looked smart to sell Lady Liberty. The mare descended from an illustrious family tree that features such names as Ruffian and Private Terms. But her branch of the family had not produced a major runner since her dam, Mesabi Maiden, won the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in 1996.
Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Doctor Dino was represented by his first winner May 9, as his daughters Virimoon and Monlora De Luna finished one-two in a maiden race at Tarbes Racecourse in France.
In addition to the $1,414,800 winner’s share of the Kentucky Derby purse for Orb’s victory, owner/breeders Stuart Janney and Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps also will receive a $50,000 bonus from the Kentucky Breeders’ Incentive Fund.
The male line of the immortal Northern Dancer has dominated international breeding for more than three decades, but the distribution of winners by sire line of the first six Northern Hemisphere classics of 2013 has been more even than in recent years.
