D'wildcat moving to stand in Louisiana
D'wildcat, the sire of Grade 2 winner D' Funnybone and multiple stakes winner Authenticat, will relocate from Vinery Florida to Louisiana Stallion Station for the 2013 season.
Glenye Cain OakfordJun 18, 2012
D'wildcat, the sire of Grade 2 winner D' Funnybone and multiple stakes winner Authenticat, will relocate from Vinery Florida to Louisiana Stallion Station for the 2013 season.
Jockey John Velazquez was cleared for release Monday from Audubon Hospital here after spending two nights there with a broken right collarbone and possible other injuries he suffered in a terrifying spill that occurred at the sixteenth pole during the ninth race Saturday night at Churchill Downs.
Four juveniles posted the fastest one-furlong time of 10 seconds Sunday for the fastest eighth-mile time at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s final under-tack show session before its June 2-year-old and racing-age sale begins Tuesday
Three juveniles breezed an eighth-mile in 10 seconds Friday as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old auction’s three-day preview got underway in Ocala, Fla.
It took Phyllis Wyeth two human and three equine generations to put Union Rags and his owner-breeder into the Belmont Stakes winner’s circle. The trip wasn’t without complications, but the colt’s connections believe the classic result was written in both the genes and the stars.
Best Present Ever is rapidly on the improve, winning her first stakes in the $100,000 Campanile for California-bred 3-year-old fillies at Golden Gate Fields on June 9. The victory has trainer Eric Kruljac and owner-breeders Dennis and Norine Grenier of Peoria, Ariz., planning a more ambitious start next month – the $250,000 American Oaks at Betfair Hollywood Park on July 14.
Jockey Club chairman and Thoroughbred owner-breeder Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps will receive the Earle Mack Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Champion Award.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s foundation mare Darara, dam of four Group 1 winners, died earlier this month at age 29, the Racing Post reported.
The Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland auction houses announced Friday that they will delay their usual November breeding stock auction dates in an effort to help buyers arriving from the Nov. 2-3 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.
Moyglare Stud’s outstanding producer Market Slide, dam of Irish champion and English classic winner Refuse to Bend and Melbourne Cup winner Media Puzzle, has died at age 21.