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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.