WinStar Farm awarded 15 stallion contracts for 2013 to breeders as part of its “Breed to Win” promotion during the grand opening of its new 18-stall stallion complex on Feb. 9. The opening event showcased 22 WinStar stallions in their new residence at Versailles, Ky., farm and rewarded 15 breeders with 2013 contracts to stallions standing for $20,000 or less.
Prominent sire Unbridled's Song recorded the 100th stakes winner and 15th Grade 1 winner of his career when his son Graydar captured the Donn Handicap on Feb. 9 at Gulfstream Park.
Willa B Awesome, winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks in 2012, has been retired, breeder and co-owner Terry Lovingier said Thursday.
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The notion that "only the good die young" is deeply ingrained in popular culture, so it is natural that facile clichés bubbled to the fingertips when Itsmyluckyday won the Holy Bull Stakes on Jan. 26. Itsmyluckyday is from the second crop of 2007 champion older male Lawyer Ron, who died on July 10, 2009, near the end of his second season at stud.
The last time racing fans saw Always a Princess was March 12, 2011, when she stepped onto a horse ambulance at Santa Anita. Many fans and horsemen still stop her owner, Arnold Zetcher, and ask how she is doing, and now he has some good news to share.
The Darley Flying Start program is one of the most unusual programs in racing, and 2013 marks its 10th anniversary, having produced almost 100 graduates employed in the horse industry internationally.
Questing, who won consecutive Grade 1 stakes last year en route to being voted champion 3-year-old filly, has been retired by Godolphin. The 4-year-old filly had a minor chip successfully removed from a hind ankle earlier this winter but developed a lingering case of pneumonia while preparing for a return to training.
Quiet American, whose 56 stakes winners include sired champions Real Quiet and Hidden Lake, has been pensioned from stud duty by Darley at age 27.
Grade 2 winner and California-bred millionaire Bold Chieftain was represented by his first foal on Feb. 1, a colt born at Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farm in Oakdale, Calif. The bay colt is out of the winning Cat Dream mare Mistical Dream, a half-sister to Grade 2-placed winner Mysterious Cat and to Mistical Bel, the dam of Grade 1 winner Mistical Plan.
Coolmore Stud has purchased an interest in promising 3-year-old Verrazano from owner Let’s Go Stable, adding another talented sophomore to its roster of possible Kentucky Derby contenders.
