The first several months of a new year are always full of foaling announcements, particularly anticipated arrivals for new stallions. The incoming stallions of 2021 – whose resulting first crops are arriving now, roughly 11 months later – were led by 2020 Horse of the Year Authentic.
Halladay, the winner of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga in 2020 and two other stakes, has been retired to stud at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., it was announced earlier this week.
The top price among newly turned yearlings at the Keeneland January sale was a $375,000 colt by Gun Runner, purchased by Narvick International to lead a strong sale for the young sire.
Grade 1 winner Frost Giant was euthanized from complications of laminitis on Monday. The 19-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway had resided as a pensioner at the ReRun Thoroughbred retraining and adoption farm in East Greenbush, N.Y., since early last year.
Grade 3 winner Speightster, who hails from one of Canada's most successful families, will return to those roots to continue his stud career, as he has been purchased by Jay and Christine Hayden’s Saintsbury Farms to stand at Northern Dawn Stables in Hillsburgh, Ontario.
Suzie O’Cain, a prominent figure in New York breeding and racing for decades, died Tuesday in Saratoga Springs after a battle with breast cancer.
Gamine, the 2020 Eclipse Award champion female sprinter, has been retired from racing, owner Michael Lund Petersen announced via a press release issued Tuesday evening.
Lentenor, a full brother to the popular and star-crossed 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, will continue his stud career at Cabin Creek Farm in Bernville, Pa., for 2022.
European champion juvenile Air Force Blue has been acquired by Pegasus Farm of South Korea to continue his stud career. The young stallion, who previously stood at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky, will become the first son of popular international sire War Front to stand in Korea.
Spendthrift Farm announced in the final days of 2021 that it is discontinuing its operations in Australia and putting its 600-acre farm in Victoria up for sale.
