Covfefe delivers Constitution filly
Popular dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe delivered her first foal, a filly by Constitution, on Tuesday in Kentucky.
Nicole RussoFeb 24, 2021
Popular dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe delivered her first foal, a filly by Constitution, on Tuesday in Kentucky.
Sealy Hill, a Canadian Hall of Famer who went on to a stellar career as a broodmare, died Tuesday at Bonne Chance Farm near Versailles, Ky. The daughter of Point Given was 17 and had been pensioned from breeding since 2018.
Coolmore's Ashford Stud, Spendthrift Farm, and Three Chimneys Farm, three prominent Kentucky farms standing some of the nation's most well-known stallions, have together filed a lawsuit challenging The Jockey Club's rule limiting the books of future stallions, the first legal challenge to the first such rule of its kind adopted by North America's governing Thoroughbred breed organization.
Eclipse Award champion sprinter Runhappy recorded his first stakes winner as a sire in February, as Nicky the Vest rolled to an 11 3/4-length score in the Gander Stakes at Aqueduct. With that runner leading a torrid streak for his sire, Runhappy heads toward the close of this month as the leading second-crop sire by individual winners, represented by 10 victors thus far in 2021.
Forest Music, a foundation mare for the successful Stonestreet Farm breeding program and the dam of classic sire Maclean's Music, has died at age 20. Stonestreet announced the Unbridled's Song mare's passing on Feb. 19. She had delivered a Bernardini filly on Jan. 25.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah recorded his third Grade/Group 1 winner as a sire, and first on dirt, as when Cafe Pharoah won the February Stakes Sunday in Japan. The colt is bred on the same cross as the stallion's first son to stud, new Japanese resident Four Wheel Drive, and could give that one a bit of added attention early in his career.
Reigning North American leading sire Into Mischief secured his first classic victory last year when eventual Horse of the Year Authentic won the postponed Kentucky Derby, as well as the Breeders' Cup Classic at the same 1 1/4-mile distance. Among Into Mischief's prospects this year as he seeks a second consecutive Derby victory is Mandaloun.
Eclipse Award champions Beholder and Untapable have each safely delivered their most recent foals, each bolstering the books of young stallions in which their respective owners have vested interests.
The Thoroughbred world was rocked in early January with the news of the death of Prince Khalid bin Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the founder and principal of the internationally renowned Juddmonte Farms. But Juddmonte has continued on from strength to strength, with a homebred squarely on the Kentucky Derby trail in the U.S. and one of its most anticipated breedings of the season, which Prince Khalid planned before his death, taking place over the weekend.
In the days following the Breeders' Cup in early November, many of 2021's incoming stallions – including the Breeders' Cup Classic's top three finishers, Authentic, Improbable, and Global Campaign, and champion Maximum Security – left their racetrack lives behind and shipped to their respective stud farm homes to begin to settle in to their new surroundings. But not Tiz the Law.