Sunset Stables filed a claim of mismanagement against Vinery New York LLC on Tuesday alleging that the stud farm failed in its responsibilities to properly manage its promising young stallion Frost Giant in 2011 and 2012.
California-bred champion Evening Jewel gave birth to her first foal on March 5, a Medaglia d'Oro filly born at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky.
Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Shared Account has delivered her first foal, a Bernardini colt born March 18 at Sagamore Farm in Reisterstown, Md.
Emerald Downs, in Auburn, Wash., is planning three new initiatives that will help to showcase Thoroughbred ex-racehorses and to transition them into second careers.
Through the first quarter of 2013, Tribal Rule leads all California sires by earnings, winners, repeat winners and races won.
Apollo, a stakes-producing Thoroughbred sire and a champion-producing Quarter Horse sire, has been pensioned at Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall, Calif.
Excelebration, a multiple Group 1 winner, will shuttle from Coolmore’s Irish base to its Australian operation in Jerry’s Plains, New South Wales, for the 2013 Southern Hemisphere season.
February saw two promising runners from Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm stallion and Eclipse Award winner Midnight Lute emerge on the West Coast, when Midnight Lucky and Govenor Charlie each scored impressive maiden wins at Santa Anita Park.
The outstanding lineup of mares set to visit unbeaten Frankel in 2013 may get another addition, as unbeaten two-time Australian Horse of the Year Black Caviar could visit the stallion upon the conclusion of her career.
Snow Fall, who won the minor Paseana Handicap in January but was pulled up in the Grade 1 Santa Margarita Stakes on March 16, has been sent to Kentucky and will be bred this spring
