Dominus retired to Spendthrift
Versatile Grade 2 winner Dominus has been retired to B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.
DRF Breeding StaffJan 22, 2013
Versatile Grade 2 winner Dominus has been retired to B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Grade 1 winner K One King has been purchased by Gunpowder Farms LLC and will be relocated to stand at Margaux Farm in Midway, Ky., for an advertised fee of $3,500 when the foal stands and nurses.
The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) has approved more than 375 shows for its 2013 competition program, which will award more than $100,000 in prize money and other awards.
Central Kentucky horseman Henry White, who served as a farm manager, breeding adviser, and member of various Thoroughbred organizations during his long and accomplished career, died on Jan. 20 at age 85 of heart failure.
If money truly talks, what could it tell us about Royal Delta, a $3.7 million earner and $8.5 million auction purchase? It would probably say that she is the best racemare of her generation and the second-hottest broodmare prospect in the history of Thoroughbred breeding (behind only $9-million dual champion Ashado). But we knew that anyway.
I’ll Have Another’s rapid rise to national prominence last spring elevated the profile of his young sire, 2005 Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley, just as Three Chimneys Farm was dealing with the loss of their signature stallion Dynaformer, who passed away several days before the Kentucky Derby.
Questing came alive for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum and Kiaran McLaughlin last summer after being switched from turf to dirt and scoring a dominant win in a one-mile optional-claiming race at Belmont.
Co-bred and owned in majority by trainer Buff Bradley and his father, Fred, Groupie Doll has accumulated a list of achievements that easily stand as the best among her immediate family. The champion female sprinter for 2012 is the only graded stakes winner by her late sire, Bowman's Band, and was the final foal out of her dam, the winning Silver Deputy mare Deputy Doll.
Trinniberg, the successful result of a speed-on-speed mating, got his young sire Teuflesberg off to a good start and transformed his dam from an obscurely bred runner to a $460,000 broodmare.
Wise Dan is the product of two smart decisions his owner and breeder Morton Fink made over the last two decades.