Multiple Grade 1 winner War of Will will join his internationally successful sire War Front at Claiborne Farm upon his retirement from racing. The Hancock family's Paris, Ky., operation announced on Thursday that it had purchased an interest in the colt.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Thousand Words
Eclipse Award champion juvenile and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist was represented by his first winner as a stallion on Sunday, as Dream Quist won her career debut at Ellis Park.
White-hot young sire Constitution has already emulated his sire, Tapit, by siring a Belmont Stakes winner. If he continues to follow in the footsteps of his sire, he may be a multi-surface threat as well, as his daughter Laura's Light is showing.
Well-traveled two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome, who began his stud career in Kentucky and shuttled to Chile before being sold to Japan, has been represented by his first winner in Russia.
Indian Pride, who races as a homebred for Brereton C. Jones and his Airdrie Stud program, scored her first stakes victory in the Shine Again Stakes on Friday at Saratoga. The filly's bloodline shone through again, as she is the third stakes winner produced by her dam, Ms. Cornstalk.
War Front, one of the biggest names in the North American sire ranks, took to the battlefield at Saratoga Race Course last weekend – and he brought the troops with him. The standout commercial and racetrack sire and his sons combined for seven wins in the first four days of racing at Saratoga, from Thursday through Sunday.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Art Collector
War of Will joined an elite club with his narrow victory in last Friday's Grade 1 Maker's Mark Mile on the Keeneland turf. The 2019 Preakness Stakes winner, War of Will is the third horse to win both an American classic and a Grade 1 race on the turf, joining the legendary Secretariat and the popular California Chrome.
While champion Monomoy Girl was returning to graded stakes company with a victory in the Grade 2 Ruffian on Saturday at Belmont, and Project Whiskey was earning 50 points toward the Oaks with a victory in the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks on July 4, their sire, Tapizar, was continuing to develop his eclectic career as a sire of international classic winners. Ta;pizar is the sire of Bullof Wall Street, winner of Sunday's Swedish Derby.
