Recent stakes winners Mark Valeski and Believe You Can are by Proud Citizen, DRF Breeding’s Hot Sire of the week, who stands at Brereton Jones' Airdrie Stud and has developed a reputation as one of the best sires of racehorses in North America.
The first reported foal by graded stakes-winning millionaire Naughty New Yorker is a colt born on March 6 at Ascot Stud near Port Colborne, Ont., where the stallion stands.
Penn National Race Course will aid in the process of retired racehorse aftercare by running informational slates featuring horses available for adoption on its simulcast feed.
The Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association of New Jersey has named its 2012 state-bred champions, led by Horse of the Year Javerre.
Little Mike, who won three Grade 1 races in 2012 including the Breeders’ Cup Turf and was an Eclipse Award finalist in the champion turf male division, has been named the 2012 Florida-bred Horse of the Year by the Florida Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders.
Toccet arrived in Oklahoma for the 2012 breeding season carrying a portfolio with a coast-to-coast reach, having sired stakes winners from Tampa to Vancouver during his first seven seasons at stud. Standing at Dr. Warren Center’s Mighty Acres in Pryor, Okla., Toccet finished last year as the state’s leading general sire with $2,069,883 in earnings, more than $200,000 ahead of Latent Heat.
Event of the Year, a multiple Grade 2 winner and sire, died from complications related to colic last January in Venezuela at age 17.
One of the most influential sires in shaping the modern racing Quarter Horse breed was, in fact, a Thoroughbred.
The law of the land in Thoroughbred breeding is simple: Cross a Thoroughbred with a Thoroughbred on a live cover, or find another registry. The rules in Quarter Horse racing allow for more creativity by breeders, which has drawn some of the Thoroughbred breed’s most recognizable names into the bloodlines of Quarter Horses.
Though he did not run at two, The Daddy’s performance as a sire of early runners is no anomaly. He is a half-brother to two graded stakes-winning juvenile runners, and is a son of North America’s 2001 leading freshman sire, Valid Expectations.
