The globe-trotting Ouija Board, a champion on two continents who went on to be a classic producer, has died in England at age 21. The Oasis Dream mare had resided at her owner and breeder Lord Darby’s Stanley House Stud in Newmarket.
Ce Ce, the champion female sprinter of 2021, was retired earlier this month after finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 5 at Keeneland.
Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner and divisional Eclipse Award champion Shamrock Rose will be among the mares in unbeaten Flightline’s first book before departing for her new home in Japan.
Weanling colts by first-crop sires Vekoma and Country House topped the leaderboard Sunday as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale closed out its Book 4 portion with solid figures.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Jack Christopher has officially been retired after missing last week’s Breeders’ Cup, and will enter stand in 2023 at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
Flightline, the undefeated Breeders’ Cup Classic winner who is sure to be named Horse of the Year, will have a $200,000 fee in his first year at stud, according to an announcement by Lane’s End Farm, where the 4-year-old colt will stand next year.
Susan Moulton will have runners both days of the Breeders' Cup in Manny Wah and homebred Andthewinneris, both graded stakes winners at Keeneland, and both carrying the sentimental silks of her late father, Naylor Morton.
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It's rare, but not unprecedented, for half or full siblings to contest races at the same Breeders' Cup. This year, however, it's an exceptionally unique circumstance, as two sets of half-siblings will share the weekend.
Flightline is campaigned by the partnership of Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, breeder Summer Wind Farm, West Point Thoroughbreds, and the Lane's End-affiliated Woodford Racing.
Jane Lyon bred and raised the unbeaten and unchallenged Flightline. But she can't say he's her favorite horse. “Do people love one of their children more than the others?” Lyon asked rhetorically. “Probably not.”
