Mon, 11/04/2019 - 13:06

Shared Account joined an elite club when Sharing won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf

Susie Raisher
Sharing is out of the mare Shared Account, who won the 2010 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

Shared Account joined an elite club as the fourth Breeders’ Cup winner to be the dam of a Breeders’ Cup winner when her daughter Sharing won the Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Mon, 11/04/2019 - 13:00

Breeders' Cup winners Storm the Court and British Idiom were bargain buys

Emily Shields
Storm the Court leaves the track after his Breeders' Cup Juvenile win. He was a $60,000 purchase in April.

A Breeders’ Cup victory that puts a young horse on the path toward the Kentucky Derby or Kentucky Oaks is virtually priceless. But Storm the Court and British Idiom, who each earned 20 points toward the spring classics with their victories in the Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies, respectively, both were bargain buys, costing just $100,000 combined.

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 23:07

Delta Prince euthanized at age 6

Barbara D. Livingston
Grade 1 winner Delta Prince was euthanized last Friday, Adena Springs announced on Tuesday.

Regally-bred Grade 1 winner Delta Prince, who was scheduled to enter stud next year in Kentucky, was euthanized Friday. The 6-year-old son of Street Cry was undergoing treatment at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, but suffered complications associated with laminitis and renal failure subsequent to an incident of colic, owner and breeder Adena Springs said in a press release.

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 11:20

Half-brothers battle in Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint

Debra A. Roma
Stormy Liberal, winner of the 2017 and 2018 editions of the BC Turf Sprint, is among the 16 pre-entries in this year's event.

Stormy Liberal will attempt to win the Breeders’ Cup turf Sprint for a third consecutive year on Saturday, and one of those trying to stop him will be his half-brother Leinster.

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 11:10

Zenyatta may be forgetful, but she's also unforgettable

Barbara D. Livingston
Zenyatta lost her pregnancy in April after suffering an inflammation of the placenta.

Zenyatta spent three championship campaigns in trainer John Shirreffs’s barn in California. But whatever memories of her former life as a racehorse remain for Zenyatta, now a broodmare at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, she evidently doesn’t remember the trainer who guided her to titles as champion older female in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and Horse of the Year in 2010.

Shirreffs said he last saw Zenyatta while attending the Keeneland September sale, and that she didn’t seem to remember him.

“She’s forgotten about me,” he said. “Out of sight, out of mind, as they say.”

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 16:39

Quality Road takes another price jump in 2020; will stand for $200,000

Barbara D. Livingston
Quality Road is now among the most expensive stallions standing in North America.

Quality Road, a rising star in the stallion ranks for Lane’s End Farm over the last several years, will again see his stud fee spike in 2020, with his advertised fee of $200,000 placing him among the most expensive sires in North America.

Quality Road, a multiple Grade 1 winner by Elusive Quality, stood for an advertised fee of $70,000 in 2018 – up from $35,000 the prior year – after a career season in which he was represented by champions Abel Tasman and Caledonia Road.

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 16:26

Lane's End acquires breeding rights to Game Winner, who will race again in 2020

Barbara D. Livingston
Game Winner is being pointed to a spring campaign with trainer Bob Baffert.

Lane's End Farm has acquired the breeding rights to Game Winner, last year's Eclipse Award champion juvenile, and plans to add him to its stallion roster in 2021.

Lane's End made the announcement while also releasing its roster and fees for 2020, with one new addition for the upcoming season in Breeders' Cup Sprint candidate Catalina Cruiser. Both recently acquired stallion prospects are by Lane's End stallions, as Game Winner is by Candy Ride and Catalina Cruiser is by Union Rags.

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 13:20

Strong freshman class well represented at Breeders' Cup

Barbara D. Livingston
American Pharoah could be represented by three Breeders' Cup runners.

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah rolled home in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Classic to end his racing career in style. But in some ways, his story was just beginning. Soon thereafter he arrived at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky where he would attempt to replicate himself.

And while American Pharoah was dominant on the racetrack, he faces a strong group of rival freshman sires as he begins to construct his legacy.

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 13:00

Street Sense has two top contenders

Coady Photography
Maxfield, with Jose Ortiz riding, wins the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland.

Street Sense won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in 2006 and then went on to become the first winner of that race to take the following year’s Kentucky Derby. This week in the Breeders’ Cup, his son Maxfield will try to put himself on the road to the Juvenile-Derby double, and his McKinzie will try to do something Street Sense couldn’t.

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 12:56

Spendthrift's Breeders' Cup dilemma: Too many rooting interests

Barbara D. Livingston
Omaha Beach works six furlongs under Mike Smith at Santa Anita on Wednesday.

There are plenty of million-dollar questions on the Breeders’ Cup program – and some of them involve just who the attendees for Spendthrift Farm might be cheering for the loudest.