Potente
Colt by Into Mischief – Sweet Sting, by Awesome Again
Bred in Kentucky by Pam and Marty Wygod ($2.4 million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase by Speedway Stable)
LEXINGTON, KY — March 26, 2026 — Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners today announced that Joel Cunningham has joined the organization as Vice President of Communications, bringing more than two decades of experience in marketing, brand strategy, and communications within the Thoroughbred industry.
Florida-bred Nearly’s story is one full of nearlys.
Breeder Kris Gibbons nearly didn’t wind up with his dam, Ib Prospecting, persisting to acquire her after losing the shake for her multiple times at the claim box. And the mare nearly didn’t have a Not This Time colt, as her first season being bred to the stallion was unsuccessful. Gibbons persisted, and Ib Prospecting got in foal to the stallion just before his stud fee skyrocketed.
Chief Wallabee
Colt by Constitution – A La Lucie, by Medaglia d’Oro
Bred in Kentucky by Mike Ball and Katherine Ball
Chief Wallabee, who has made both of his starts at Gulfstream Park, will look to punch his ticket to the Kentucky Derby in Saturday’s Florida Derby. His sire, Constitution, won that race and showed a particular affinity for Gulfstream, a trait he has passed on to some of his runners.
San Miguel, California—A dozen mares bred to Grade 1 winner Collected at the start of the 2026 breeding season have checked in foal to the City Zip stallion, who relocated from Kentucky last November to stand at Rancho San Miguel in San Luis Obispo County, California.
Serena's Song, a champion and first-ballot Hall of Famer who went on to be a blue-hen broodmare, died Wednesday morning at her longtime home of Denali Stud in Paris, Ky.
She officially turned 34 this year, and would have reached her foaling date on April 4.
"What a privilege it has been," Denali, the operation of the Bandoroff family, wrote on its social media channels in reporting the mare's passing. Serena's Song had resided at the farm since December 1996, upon her retirement from racing.
Quietside, winner of last year’s Grade 2 Fantasy at Oaklawn, has been retired and is scheduled to be bred to Nyquist, according to her trainer, John Ortiz. The millionaire was seventh in the Grade 2 Azeri last weekend at Oaklawn, one start after running third in the track’s Grade 3 Bayakoa won by champion Nitrogen.
Ortiz said John Ed Anthony, who bred and owns Quietside, made the decision to retire the daughter of Malibu Moon.
La Cara, a multiple Grade 1 winner of $1.2 million, is going to be retired to the breeding shed, according to her trainer, Mark Casse. He said she is scheduled to be bred to Not This Time.
La Cara registered her biggest wins in last year’s Acorn and Ashland. She has run fifth in both of her starts this year, both on wet tracks in the Grade 2 Azeri last weekend at Oaklawn and the Grade 3 Houston Ladies Classic in January at Sam Houston.