Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Clayton
As Daily Racing Form's 2020 Queen's Plate Watch debuts, Clayton sits atop the list. The colt sports classic connections on both sides of his pedigree.
Nicole RussoAug 13, 2020
As Daily Racing Form's 2020 Queen's Plate Watch debuts, Clayton sits atop the list. The colt sports classic connections on both sides of his pedigree.
Stakes-placed Wooderson, a half-brother to Hall of Famer Rachel Alexandra, will begin his stud career for Burdette Thoroughbred Farm of Arkansas in 2021, becoming the latest stallion from this family in a regional marketplace.
As the season for the younger set heats up, freshman sires swept the weekend's graded stakes races for 2-year-olds at Del Mar.
Dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe helped Into Mischief to his first leading sire title in 2019 by flaunting her speed. The filly's four stakes wins on the season – capped by the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint – included a track record-setting performance in the Grade 3 Miss Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, and a win in the Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs in which she missed champion Groupie Doll's track mark by just seven-hundredths of a second.
Starlight Racing’s commitment to their craft has launched them into the top five racing syndicates in the country and continues this year with the promising Authentic, recent winner of the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell. His next stop: the Kentucky Derby.
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As Tapit continues to emerge as a sire of sires, his sons could be taking aim on the 2020 Kentucky Oaks, as two of them swept the exacta in Saturday's Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks, one of the final prep races. Tapiture, who stands at Darby Dan Farm, sired the victorious Hopeful Growth, while Tapizar's daughter Project Whiskey, previously the winner of the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks, finished second.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, last year's leading freshman sire, hit another milestone in his stud career on Sunday. Pista was a 6 1/2-length winner of her debut going 10 furlongs on soft turf at Galway in Ireland, becoming her sire's 50th individual winner. The victories for the Coolmore stallion have come in seven different countries.
Summer Front has made Saratoga his battlefront this summer – and is making a statement there.
Multiple graded stakes winner Timeline will begin his stud career next year at Iowa State University, joining a solid group of stallions and mares at the teaching program, which has developed into a prominent regional commercial program.