The Jockey Club released statistics for the 2019 breeding season and 2020 foaling season on Monday that continue to show a contracting Thoroughbred industry in North America.
Preakness Stakes heroine Swiss Skydiver is a daughter of Daredevil, who was exported to stand in Turkey. The filly has some international flair on the bottom side of her pedigree as well, as her dam Expo Gold, who will be offered at Keeneland November, is by Johannesburg, a champion on two continents who now stands in Japan.
Eclipse Award champion juvenile Game Winner, who last raced in July 2019, has officially been retired from racing and will enter stud next year at Lane’s End Farm.
Darley had two reasons to be proud after Gretzky the Great's Grade 1 victory in the Summer Stakes. Darley stands Gretzky the Great's sire, Nyquist, and the sire of the colt's dam, Bernardini, a steadily emerging broodmare sire.
Nyquist carried the banner in the record-setting first crop of Uncle Mo, emulating his sire on the racetrack with an unbeaten juvenile campaign capped by a Breeders' Cup Juvenile victory to earn the divisional Eclipse Award. Having taken things a step further by going on to win the 2016 Kentucky Derby, Nyquist is now following in his father's footsteps as a stallion as well.
The young broodmare Catch the Moon has already become a star, officially recording her third graded stakes winner over the weekend as Pirate's Punch won the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth.
The Reddams reacquired the 11-year-old Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another in a private purchase and will stand him at their Ocean Breeze Ranch in Bonsall, Calif., in 2021, Paul Reddam said on Thursday.
The celebration of Shedaresthedevil's victory in the Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks over Swiss Skydiver stretched from her connections in Louisville around the globe to Karacabey, Turkey. The top two finishers in the Oaks are both by former American stallion Daredevil, who was purchased late last year by the Turkish Jockey Club.
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The Jockey Club is projecting a 2021 registered North American Thoroughbred foal crop of 19,200, a decline of 6 percent from an estimated 20,500 in 2020.
