Horsemen in Great Britain will have a new breeders’ incentive program for the 2013 racing season, with the approval of the British Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme, Racing Post reports.
Declan’s Moon, the 2004 champion juvenile, has returned to training for a potential new career as a sport horse after almost five years in retirement. He is one of four ex-racehorses participating in the Retired Racehorse Training Project’s 100-Day Challenge.
Multiple Group 1 winner Ibn Bey, who finished second in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Classic, died in Japan on Monday at age 28.
Pure Prize began his stud career at Vinery in 2003 with a superlative pedigree as his primary asset in the highly competitive central Kentucky bloodstock market. In subsequent years, despite never receiving consistent support from commercial breeders and shuttling to the Southern Hemisphere on an annual basis, this son of Storm Cat established a reputation as a reliable sire capable of producing sound and versatile runners with the occasional home run mixed in.
Multiple stakes winner Calimonco, a full brother to two Breeders’ Cup winners, has been retired and will enter stud at Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, Calif., in 2013.
Multiple graded and group stakes winner Three Valleys, a Juddmonte Farm homebred, has been sold to continue his stud career in Turkey.
The sire line founded by Vice Regent’s best son, Deputy Minister, continued its successful transition to a third generation this year with the rebound success of his best grandson, Ghostzapper, and the surprise debut of leading North American-based freshman sire Spring At Last.
Nathan Tinkler, the financially troubled Australian tycoon who owns Patinack Farm, has sold All Too Hard, a Group 1-winning half-brother to Black Caviar, to Vinery Stud in Australia, according to Australian media reports.
Champion Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby, will enter stud in Australia in September 2013 after John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud acquired a majority interest in breeding rights to the colt.
Awesome Feather, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2010, has been retired, Adena Springs Farm announced on Thursday.
