State City, a highweighted Group 1 winner in the United Arab Emirates, will stand his first season in Oklahoma at Caines Stallion Station near Wynnewood. The 14-year-old stallion previously stood in Kentucky, and between 2005 and 2007 shuttled to Australia.
Declan’s Moon, the 2004 champion juvenile, was voted Best Suited for Dressage Saturday at the Pennsylvania Horse World Exposition, the penultimate event in the Retired Racehorse Training Project’s 100-Day Challenge.
Rachel Alexandra, who earned Horse of the Year honors for her historic 2009 campaign, continues to make positive progress in her recovery from surgery related to foaling complications at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky.
Notable North American freshman sires of 2013 with a stud fee of $1,500 or higher.
Stakes winner Freud's Honour will enter stud this season at Judith Jannuzzelli's Birch Creek Farm in Cream Ridge, N.J.
Ontario’s Thoroughbred breeding industry struggles to stay alive because of a radical decision announced a year ago by the Ontario government, under now-retired Premier Dalton McGuinty, and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
The only son of the late Sunday Silence at stud in Canada, the multiple graded stakes winner Silent Name led the Ontario juvenile sire list for 2012, siring 10 winners from 22 starters for progeny earnings of $650,541.
In the heyday of the American breeding industry – from about 1960 to 2000 – it was essentially a given that the highest-priced freshman sire each year would reside in Kentucky. How the mighty have fallen.
In a short time, international champion Johannesburg has established himself as a potential leading sire of sires. The latest feather in his cap is Marcavelly, Ontario’s leading freshman sire of 2012.
Old Forester was the epitome of a hard-knocking performer during his four-year career on the racetrack, and has transferred that trait to his offspring since retiring to stand at John Carey’s T.C. Westmeath Stud in Ontario in 2007.
