Tapit and War Front are both standout individuals in the North American sire ranks and have been rivals atop the commercial leaderboard on this continent. The two stallions are starting to combine for success together as well, with recent stakes winner Halladay one example of their lines being crossed.
The Jockey Club board of stewards has, for the first time, adopted a rule that limits the number of mares allowed to be bred to some Thoroughbred stallions in North America, it announced on Thursday. The rule puts a cap of 140 mares bred annually for stallions born in 2020 or after. The Jockey Club put no cap on stallions born before 2019.
Hill 'n' Dale Farm has acquired the future breeding rights to Kentucky Derby hopeful Charlatan, who remained unbeaten with a dominant victory in a division of the Arkansas Derby last Saturday.
Blame scored the biggest victory of his career going 1 1/4 miles beneath the twin spires of Churchill Downs. A decade later his son Nadal is in position to chase another major victory going that classic distance at Churchill, as he remained unbeaten by winning a division of the Arkansas Derby.
Arkansas has been one of the centers of the racing world over the past two months as Oaklawn Park hosted some of the biggest names in racing during its meeting. The meet, which closed Saturday, has helped put Starfish Stallions resident Hamazing Destiny atop the current Arkansas sire standings.
Blame was foaled on May 2, 2006. Exactly 14 years later – and a decade after Blame's championship season – his son Nadal became his fifth career Grade/Group 1 winner when capturing a division of the Arkansas Derby.
Stonestreet Farm purchased the multiple graded stakes winner Authenticity for $1.2 million out of the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. The mare is already working to pay that back. A rising star in the star-studded Stonestreet broodmare band, Authenticity is the dam of two stakes winners from her first two foals, including Kentucky Derby hopeful Charlatan.
Square Eddie, one of the leading stallions by progeny earnings in California in recent years, has been retired from stud service because of infertility, according to Dennis O’Neill, racing manager for stallion owners Paul and Zillah Reddam.
Both the white-hot young sire Constitution and the stakes-placed young broodmare Addison Run have gotten their respective breeding careers off to strong starts. Together they have produced Grade 1-placed Gouverneur Morris, who is bred on a cross that has proven productive.
Live racing on the New York Racing Association circuit was last conducted on March 15 at Aqueduct before being suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the spring meeting at Belmont Park has been postponed to a date yet to be announced. However, a lack of racing in their state of residence has not slowed young New York sire Central Banker and the state's perennial leading sire Freud.
