The well-related young broodmare Belle Street sold for $550,000 to lead the Book 3 opener as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale moved deeper into the marketplace with continued gains.
Eclipse Award champion turf horse and leading turf sire English Channel died Thursday morning following an illness. One of the heirs to leading sire Smart Strike, English Channel was 19.
Eclipse Award champion turf horse and leading turf sire English Channel died Thursday morning following an illness. The son of Smart Strike was 19.
Adena Springs, the 2,300-acre central Kentucky property that was established by Frank Stronach in 2007, is being marketed for sale, according to the real-estate firm handling the transaction.
Dubawi became the first sire to have three offspring win Breeders' Cup races in a single year, also fueling a historic weekend for Godolphin, the owner and breeder of all three victors.
The Niarchos Family was honored with the 2021 Longines and IFHA International Award of Merit on Friday at the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar. Fittingly, their brilliant runner Miesque, who made Breeders' Cup history during her own career, also showed her influence during this race weekend in California.
Sunday Silence, winner of the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic, spent his entire stud career in Japan. There, he found a perfectly complementary gene pool and became a breed-shaping sire whose impact in his adopted country cannot be overstated.
Reigning leading sire Into Mischief and rising star Gun Runner both sired Breeders' Cup winners, and exit last week with stallion records in sight before the end of 2021.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Knicks Go and Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Aloha West gave Maryland two Breeders' Cup winners last week at Del Mar.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Knicks Go continued to extend the legacy of a sireline that has had its fair share of success in the Breeders' Cup over the decades.
