Knicks Go to stand at Taylor Made
Knicks Go, a leading candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, will stand at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., upon the conclusion of his racing career, the farm announced Monday.
Nicole RussoOct 18, 2021
Knicks Go, a leading candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, will stand at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., upon the conclusion of his racing career, the farm announced Monday.
California Angel has wildly exceeded her modest expectations. Trainer George Leonard III found an angel in the rough when he advised owner Chris Walsh to acquire the filly at the OBS June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age. They spent just $5,500 for the filly, small change at major-market Thoroughbred sales – especially against the $213,700 the filly has earned to date, with victories in both her starts on turf from three career outings.
Thunderous Affair and Forthegreatergood were selected as the overall champions at the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover, held Oct. 12-17 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.
Claiborne Farm has acquired the rights to Silver State, whose biggest win came in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, considered a stallion-making race.
The international Godolphin operation's U.S. arm announced Monday that its president and racing manager Jimmy Bell will retire from his day-to-day involvement at the farm by the end of the year and that the farm's Michael Banahan will take on an expanded role as a result.
Joseph and Helen Barbazon's Pleasant Acres Stallions of Morriston, Fla., stood 12 stallions in 2021 and is continuing to add to its roster for 2022. The farm will introduce multiple graded stakes winner Leinster and Bellavia, and the roster also will be joined by Never No More, who is moving down from Winding Creek Farm in Maryland.
The influence of the late Sunday Silence, who spent his entire stud career in Japan, was in evidence Saturday at Keeneland in the pedigrees of Brazilian-bred Grade 1 winner In Love and British-born Grade 1 winner Blowout.
The late champion and leading sire Giant's Causeway had just three foals in his final crop. Two were in action on Saturday's card at Keeneland, and the stallion has at least one additional stakes horse to burnish his legacy.
The seemingly ageless sire More Than Ready swept the turf graded stakes races for juveniles at Belmont over the weekend, as his daughter Bubble Rock won the Grade 3 Matron Stakes on Saturday and Slipstream won the Grade 3 Futurity on Sunday.
Ken McPeek bought Curlin as a yearling, and the colt went on to become a Hall of Famer and top sire. Breeders' Futurity winner Rattle N Roll is a grandson of Curlin, and McPeek says he sees mental and physical qualities in Rattle N Roll that remind him of his Hall of Fame grandsire.