The Jockey Club has released its breeding statistics and resulting foaling statistics for the 2020 season, reporting that 1,447 stallions covered 29,699 mares in North America, leading to a continued contraction of the foal crop.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Lord Nelson, who fought through laminitis to have a stud career, has succumbed to the dreaded hoof disease. Spendthrift Farm announced Thursday that the 9-year-old son of Pulpit has been euthanized.
In the midst of an outstanding season – he ranks sixth on the general sires list through Sunday – Munnings recorded his second Grade 1-winning son on Saturday when Jack Christopher won the Champagne Stakes at Belmont. Jack Christopher could prove to be an important horse for Munnings's legacy.
With a bevy of stakes races for juveniles around the country over the weekend, three prominent sires each recorded a milestone victory.
Two-time Eclipse Award champion Monomoy Girl will be bred to two-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief in her first season as a broodmare, Spendthrift Farm confirmed Monday.
Appropriately, a deeply rooted Illinois-bred captured what is expected to be the final race in the storied history of Arlington Park on Saturday evening.
Richard L. Golden, one of the founders of nationally prominent Northview Stallion Station in Maryland, died of natural causes in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sept. 18. He was 82.
Consignor James M. Herbener Jr., whose operation is active at the Keeneland September yearling sale, died Sunday morning at his home in Georgetown, Ky., from a suspected heart attack. He was 69.
Grade 1 winner Basin has been retired and will enter stud at Spendthrift Farm in 2022.
Shadwell Stud announced Thursday that it will disperse some of its stock following the death in March of its founder, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
