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.
Four years after thrilling fans at the last Breeders' Cup at Del Mar with a decisive victory in the Classic, Gun Runner has a filly from his first crop, Echo Zulu, poised to repeat his season-ending heroics as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.
The international Shadwell Stables operation experienced a monumental loss this year as its founder, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, died in March. But even as the powerhouse stable navigates that loss and evaluates its operations, it has continued to show the strength of Sheikh Hamdan's program.
World-renowned sire Galileo, whose death in July sent shockwaves through the racing world, will look to posthumously extend his lead as the Breeders' Cup's all-time leading sire by money won. Meanwhile, the action this week at Del Mar could also shift the leaderboard of the event's leading living sires.
Regally bred multiple graded-stakes winner Tacitus will stand at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., in 2022, with partners including his breeder, Juddmonte Farms, the operations announced Monday.
The Metropolitan Handicap has long been considered a stallion-making race, showcasing the brilliance so valued in the American marketplace and the ability to carry that speed beyond a true sprint distance. Now the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, inaugurated in 2007, also has begun to develop the looks of a stallion-making event.
The popular sprinter Firenze Fire, a graded stakes winner in five consecutive years and a 13-time stakes winner overall, will stand stud at Arrow Stud in Japan next year, his current owner Ron Lombardi said Tuesday.
