The legacy of More Than Ready, a Grade 1 winner who went on to become one of the most successful sires in the history of the Breeders' Cup, will be as the most prominent keeper of the Halo line in the United States. More Than Ready was euthanized Aug. 26 at WinStar Farm in Kentucky due to the effects of old age at age 25.
More Than Ready, a Grade 1 winner who became a prominent sire on two continents and one of the most successful stallions in the history of the Breeders' Cup, was euthanized Friday at WinStar Farm "due to the cumulative effects of old age." The son of Southern Halo was 25.
Grade 1-winning regional stallions Combatant and Imagining, who it was hoped would help carry on important sirelines, recently died of colic.
The five Thoroughbred stallions at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater was joined by another New York-bred standout this year – Coraggioso, the 2012 New York Sire Stakes trotting champion. Mill Creek is thus in the unique position of standing both breeds.
Horse of the Year Gun Runner will get a chance to continue to build on the smashing success of his first crop as his Preakness Stakes winner Early Voting and multiple Grade 1 winner Cyberknife face off in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga. His second crop also is beginning to light up the board.
Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Duke of Love
Owner Joel Politi and trainer Tom Amoss teamed to win the Groupie Doll Stakes on Sunday with Li'l Tootsie. It was Politi's first stakes win at Ellis Park in five years and came nearly five years to the day that Serengeti Empress carried Politi's silks to victory in the Ellis Park Debutante.
For the second year in a row, Spendthrift Farm had a connection to the winner of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap on the Saratoga turf.
Grade 1 winner Americanrevolution was honored as the New York-bred horse of the year on Friday evening at a ceremony at Fasig-Tipton's Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion.
Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Ironstone
