Turning Top to be bred to Irish stallion Galileo
Turning Top, a Grade 3 winner in 2010 and Grade 1 stakes-placed that year, has been retired and will be bred to the Irish-based stallion Galileo.
Steve AndersenJan 07, 2012
Turning Top, a Grade 3 winner in 2010 and Grade 1 stakes-placed that year, has been retired and will be bred to the Irish-based stallion Galileo.
Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs ended 2011 as the year’s leading North American breeder by racetrack earnings, marking the ninth consecutive season that the large operation has topped the list.
Unusual Heat defended his title as California’s leading stallion by progeny earnings in 2011 with earnings of $4,495,713, slightly edging his 2010 total.
Keeneland’s January mixed auction, which runs Jan. 9-12, already has one positive factor: a 13 percent smaller catalog. Shorter supply helped the Thoroughbred market achieve better stability last season, and it’s one of the reasons Keeneland sale director Geoffrey Russell feels optimistic about the 2012 January sale. Another reason: the autumn’s better-than-expected sale results for both yearlings and breeding stock.
Ice Box, the 2010 Florida Derby winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up, will enter stud this year at Calumet Farm in the second stud deal that historic nursery secured in a week.
Diana and Bert Firestone have retired their homebred Grade 1 winner Winchester, the Blood-Horse has reported.
In a move that would bring a stallion operation to Calumet Farm for the first time in at least seven years, the historic Lexington farm will stand Cactus Ridge in 2012.
Never Retreat, a Grade 1 winner, has been retired and will be bred this winter to War Front, trainer Chris Block said Monday.
Grade 1 winner Giant Oak has been retired from racing to stand stud at Millennium Farms in Kentucky, it was announced Monday.
Ben Warren, one of California’s most prolific owner-breeders in recent years, has stopped breeding and will wind down his racing operation in coming years, he said on Thursday.