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The eagerly awaited first runners for Flightline, the undefeated 2022 Horse of the Year, have this phase of his career off to a strong start. In about 24 hours, between Kentucky and Japan, Flightline got a win, a second, and a third from his first three starters.
White Abarrio, a leading player in the handicap division whose multiple Grade 1 wins include the 2023 Breeders' Cup Classic, will stand at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky next year, owner C2 Racing announced on Thursday.
Gainesway's kingpin is White Abarrio's paternal grandsire, Tapit, a perennial leading sire. White Abarrio is by multiple graded stakes winner Race Day, who stood at Spendthrift Farm before being exported to Korea for the 2021 season.
Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Mind Your Biscuits, the highest-earning New York-bred of all time, has died at Shadai Farm in Japan, where he has stood his entire stud career. The son of Posse was 13.
The Japanese media site ZBAT wrote on Tuesday that the stallion “had been behaving normally and in good health, but his condition suddenly worsened after breeding in the afternoon of that day, and he passed away.”
The iconic jewels in the Triple Crown endure, even alongside changes – such as the pandemic-shuffled series of 2020, and, in recent years, the temporary re-locations of the Belmont Stakes and Preakness Stakes due to construction at historic Belmont Park and Pimlico Race Course, respectively.
Always a Runner’s story is still in its opening chapters, as the filly made just her third career start in winning the Kentucky Oaks. But the tale has been a long time in the making for breeder and co-owner Goncalo Torrealba’s Three Chimneys Farm and co-owner Douglas Scharbauer. Trainer Chad Brown, too, has a longer association with the roots for the filly, who looks to remain unbeaten in her next chapter in Friday’s Grade 1 Acorn Stakes at Saratoga.
This year's Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will stand at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky., upon the eventual conclusion of his racing career, the farm announced in a release Friday.
There is no timeline indicated for when Golden Tempo’s racing career may end. He is expected to make his next start in the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga.
After winning the Derby, Golden Tempo, a homebred for Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stables who is trained by Cherie DeVaux, bypassed the Preakness Stakes. He is currently in training at Keeneland.
Hall of Famer Curlin completed his personal Triple Crown as a sire when his son Golden Tempo won the Kentucky Derby earlier this month. Now, Curlin’s champion son Good Magic will try to keep the magic going as he looks to pull the same trick with Talkin in this Saturday’s Preakness Stakes.
