Royal Academy, BC Mile winner and sire, dies at 25
Champion and noted sire Royal Academy, who gave 54-year-old jockey Lester Piggott a thrilling comeback victory in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Mile, has died in Australia.
Glenye Cain OakfordFeb 22, 2012
Champion and noted sire Royal Academy, who gave 54-year-old jockey Lester Piggott a thrilling comeback victory in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Mile, has died in Australia.
The California breeding market continues to favor mare owners who have an increasing list of bargains available among potential stallions, according to the managers of two prominent farms.
Valid Expectations has been one of the Southwest’s most prolific stallions since he came to Lane’s End Texas in 2001. Now his daughters are proving to be excellent broodmares.
Daily Racing Form news coverage and statistics for stallions in Kentucky and throughout the Midwest ahead of the 2012 breeding season.
Canada’s leading freshman sire in 2010, Old Forester has continued his fast start, vaulting past perennial leader Bold Executive to top the rankings for sires of all-weather runners with $2,560,554 in progeny earnings.
The successes of Curlin, Lookin At Lucky, and My Miss Aurelia tend to make us forget that Smart Strike was better known as a sire of turf runners. He returns to that realm as the leading turf sire of 2011.
Danehill dominated Australia and Europe for decades, named leading sire in Australia nine times, Britain and Ireland four times, and France two times. Now he adds his first broodmare sire title to that list.
It took a few days after the new year for the last earnings to trickle in and push Scat Daddy past Hard Spun as 2011’s leading freshman sire. He cut it close: The final margin was $11,175.
Kitten’s Joy had a remarkable year in 2011 with his third crop of runners, edging out Smart Strike by $906 to become leading juvenile sire, but that success wasn’t just because of lucky genetics.
When Distorted Humor started his stud career in 2000 with a $12,500 fee, it was hard to believe he would one day become North America’s leading sire.