Weyburn debuts as the favorite on Daily Racing Form's Queen's Plate Watch for 2021. The Chiefswood Stables homebred boasts a stellar pedigree, being from a sireline that has had major classic success and from a female family that has produced multiple champions.
Young graded stakes-winning stallion Far From Over, the catalyst for the latest evolution of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale, died Sunday after suffering a seizure the night before. The 9-year-old son of Blame had been standing at William Gray's Gray Farms near Cottonwood, Calif., and his oldest foals are yearlings.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Came Home died last week in Japan after a bout with colic. The son of Gone West was 22.
The inaugural New York Thoroughbred Aftercare Day will be held July 21 at Saratoga Race Course, the New York Racing Association (NYRA), New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA), and New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) jointly announced Wednesday.
Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum, daughter of the late Shadwell Stables founder Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, will take on a prominent leadership role with the international racing and breeding operation as it continues on.
Super Saver and Daredevil were both acquired by the Turkish Jockey Club in late 2019, during a period when that outfit was bullish in the North American bloodstock market in an attempt to build its stallion ranks. Daredevil promptly sired an Eclipse Award winner the next season in Preakness Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver, along with Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil. His former WinStar Farm stablemare Super Saver has followed suit, with a good deal of success following his departure.
Gun Runner, the 2017 Horse of the Year, has made a fine start to his second career as a sire. Not only is he the early leader of his freshman sire class by earnings, he leads all North American juvenile sires through the first half of 2021.
At the halfway point of this year, Into Mischief again finds himself atop North America's sires, by a number of metrics, and is also more than halfway to his own single-season earnings record.
Veteran sire Stormy Atlantic, the sire of stakes performers including Eclipse Award champion Stormy Liberal, has been pensioned from stallion duty. The 27-year-old Storm Cat horse, who most recently stood at Hill ‘n' Dale farm in Kentucky, has returned to his birthplace, Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., to live out his days.
You'resothrilling provided her accomplished family with another thrilling moment as her daughter Joan of Arc won the French Oaks on Sunday, becoming the brilliant broodmare's third European classic winner.
