Far From Over dies after seizure

The 9-year-old graded stakes-winning stallion Far From Over, the catalyst for the latest evolution of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale, died Sunday after suffering a seizure the night before. The son of Blame had been standing at William Gray’s Gray Farms near Cottonwood, Calif., and his oldest foals are yearlings.

Far From Over, whose biggest win came in the Grade 3 Withers Stakes in 2015, stood at stud for the partnership of Steve Marshall’s Fountain of Youth Breeding LLC, Burke Edwards, and Justin Ferrero. The stallion stood most of three seasons; he injured his pelvis this spring in a paddock accident, and ended what would be his final season early.

“Of all the horses I’ve owned, Far From Over had as good a physical as we’ve ever seen, and that includes Violence,” Marshall said in a press release. “It’s a great loss. We’ll never know how good a sire he would have been.”

With Marshall dispersing his stock, the partnership’s mares in foal to Far From Over, some of them with foals at heel, were to be entered in a public auction to dissolve the partnership. Fasig-Tipton accepted the mares into its July sale, which already consists of a yearling portion and a horses of racing age portion. With the dispersal, Fasig-Tipton then opened its catalog to additional breeding stock entries, and this year’s sale, which was set for Monday in Lexington, Ky., was to test the viability of the marketplace for future years.