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Giacomo, Heatseeker among 16 new stallions standing in California

The list of stallions joining the ranks of California’s breeding farms for 2012 has created a buzz. It is not often that new bloodlines at the state’s breeding farms include a Kentucky Derby winner – 2005 winner Giacomo, bound for Magali Farms – or a Grade 1 winner – Heatseeker, on his way to Harris Farms. Both horses stood at farms in Kentucky in 2011 and are part of a group of 16 stallions beginning their stud careers or standing in the state for the first time in 2012.

Steve AndersenDec 22, 2011

Etc. . . . Dec 21

Gretchen and Roy Jackson, who race under the name Lael Stables, have donated $150,000 to the Belmont Child Care Association, which runs the Anna House day-care center at Belmont Park in New York. One-hundred thousand dollars of the donation will go to the Lael Stable Fund, a program administered by the child-care association to provide early childhood education to the children of backstretch workers at New York tracks, and the remaining $50,000 had been earmarked for the association's general fund. . . .

DRF StaffDec 21, 2011

California stallion Bertrando retired from stud duty

Bertrando, a five-time leading sire in California with 53 career stakes winners, has been retired and will be pensioned at River Edge Farm.

Matt HegartyDec 21, 2011

Flying Zee dispersal to have final session in New York

Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N. Y., will host the third and final phase of the Flying Zee Stable dispersal on Jan. 21.

Glenye Cain OakfordDec 19, 2011

Retirement programs join forces to provide homes for two

Three Thoroughbred retirement programs have joined forces to permanently retire a pair of former claiming horses: a son of Ferdinand, the 1986 Kentucky Derby winner who died in a Japanese slaughterhouse, and a runner who started 125 times.

Glenye Cain OakfordDec 19, 2011

OBS mixed sale has 530 cataloged

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has cataloged 530 horses to its Jan. 17-18 winter mixed sale in Ocala, Fla. Hip Nos. 1-110 will sell Jan. 17 in a consignor-preferred session, followed by 148 horses in a new horses of racing age session the same day. An open session will take place Jan. 18. Catalogs are available online at www.obssales.com.

Glenye Cain OakfordDec 19, 2011

Ziebarth maintains her ties with Tiznow

Tiznow is never far from owner-breeder Pamela Ziebarth’s thoughts, or the bloodlines of her horses. “There are very few that aren’t related,” she said of her racing and breeding stock.

Steve AndersenDec 16, 2011

Airdrie Stud hopeful for Indian Charlie's sons

Indian Charlie’s death Thursday at age 16 cost Airdrie Stud its banner stallion, but farm owner Brereton C. Jones said the Midway, Ky., operation hopes to build on his legacy by perhaps standing one of his sons.

Glenye Cain OakfordDec 16, 2011

Winchell buys interest in Pin Oak stallion Cowboy Cal

Ron Winchell has bought an unspecified interest in Pin Oak Stud stallion Cowboy Cal, who stands at the Versailles, Ky., farm for $7,500.

Glenye Cain OakfordDec 16, 2011

Indian Charlie, sire of Uncle Mo, dies at 16

Indian Charlie, sire of four North American champions including Uncle Mo, died Thursday morning at age 16. An In Excess horse who went from California Grade 1 winner to fashionable Kentucky sire, Indian Charlie had cancer and was euthanized at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, according to a source close to Brereton C. Jones’s Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., where Indian Charlie stood.

Glenye Cain OakfordDec 15, 2011

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