Gustave C. Schoenborn Sr., who founded Schoenborn Brothers Farm in New York with his brother Everett, died on May 11 at his home in Coxsackie, N.Y. He was 75.
Grade 1 winner and millionaire Paddy O’Prado, a first-year stallion at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, will miss the rest of the 2012 breeding season after undergoing surgery Friday for what the farm called “a simple twist of the large colon.”
A Sky Mesa filly proved fastest in the Barretts May sale’s under-tack preview Friday.
Pluck, the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner by More Than Ready, has retired from racing and will enter stud at Vinery Australia, which also stands his sire during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
If he had it to do again, Harvey Clarke probably still would have sold I’ll Have Another. Clarke sells many of the foals his 10-mare band produces, and, back in 2010, there was nothing about the Flower Alley colt that suggested he would go from $11,000 auction yearling to 2012 Kentucky Derby winner.
Prices for race-ready juveniles are expected to rise at Monday’s Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in-training in Pomona, Calif.
Ten years before I'll Have Another won the Kentucky Derby, his sire, Flower Alley, almost didn't make it after a difficult birth.
Zenyatta is in foal for the second time, this time on a cover to Tapit, her owners Ann and Jerry Moss announced Tuesday via Twitter and Facebook.
Grade 1 winner and 2000 Kentucky Derby and Belmont runner-up Aptitude has died in Argentina of a ruptured stomach.
Lexington's historic Calumet Farm has a new operator: Thoroughbred owner and breeder Brad Kelley. The De Kwiatkowski Trust, which operates Calumet's owner, Kennelot Stables, announced late Thursday that it had entered a private purchase agreement with a new group, the Calumet Investment Group, to buy the famed farm. That group will lease the 798-acre farm to Kelley, who owns and bred Kentucky Derby contender Optimizer.
