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But what a difference a year makes. Jim and Dana Bernhard, who began buying horses in the summer of 2021 as Lynnhaven Racing, purchased Pin Oak in 2022. The first foals from their fledgling broodmare band were testing their legs in the farm's field this spring.
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King's Plate pedigree profile: Stanley House
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At the halfway point of this season, record-setting Into Mischief is again leading the North American sire standings, chasing a fifth consecutive general sire title.
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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.
