The Arkansas breeding industry picked up two significant sources of speed for 2012 in J Be K and The Daddy. The stallions are standing at Trophy Club Training Center in Royal, the former Kilkerry Farm which was owned by the late Bob Holthus.
Four years after the bloodstock market crash, breeders and stallion managers in Kentucky are finding value in sharper, more efficient business practices.
Acclamation, honored last month as the nation’s outstanding older male of 2011, took home another prize for that campaign on Monday – California-bred Horse of the Year.
Mignon Comer Smith, the Washington, D.C., horsewoman who owned Mede Cahaba Stable and was a prominent steeplechase owner, died Feb. 10 in Washington of a heart attack. She was 81.
Racing fans will have the chance to name Rachel Alexandra’s first foal, the Curlin colt born Jan. 22, in a contest her owners announced on Feb. 14.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 167 horses to its Florida sale, a select 2-year-old auction that will take place on March 26 at the Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Fla.
Questroyal Stud in New York has purchased Richard Simon’s former Sez Who North in Stillwater, N.Y., in partnership with Gus Schoenborn Jr., Questroyal announced Monday.
Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm in Hyde Park, N.Y., has hired longtime central Kentucky horseman Fred Winters as its manager.
Irish champion and Darley stallion Refuse to Bend, sire of European champion 3-year-old filly Sarafina, died of a heart attack Friday at Haras du Logis in Normandy, France.
The newly created Golden State Series for California-breds, a calendar of lucrative stakes this year, could attract more than 1,000 nominations by Wednesday’s deadline.
