LEXINGTON, Ky. – Last week, The Jockey Club floated a controversial proposal to limit stallions to 140 mares bred in a single North American season, and to some in the breeding industry, the measure could not come soon enough.
“It’s something that needs to be done, now,” said Bernie Sams, the longtime stallion manager at Claiborne Farm. “In fact, it needed to be done 15 years ago.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A filly by Triple Crown winner and leading freshman sire American Pharoah and out of Broodmare of the Year Leslie's Lady sold for $8.2 million, among the top prices in the history of the Keeneland September yearling sale, as the auction's marquee Book 1 portion closed its three-day run on Wednesday with major gains.
“Giving horses a second chance to be winners” is the noble credo that the Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program lives by.
FLTAP was founded in 2006 when Finger Lakes racetrack management and the local HBPA division decided something must be done to protect at-risk runners, most notably those headed down the claiming ladder. This award-winning retraining and adoption program has helped more than 400 horses find new homes.
Seth Klarman of Klaravich Stables was named the National Owner of the Year and John D. Gunther of Glennwood Farm was named the National Breeder of the Year as the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association honored industry participants at its annual awards dinner over the weekend in Lexington, Ky.
Grade 1 winner and young sire Take Charge Indy will be repatriated from Korea to stand at WinStar Farm in 2020, the farm announced over the weekend.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Jockey Club is considering a rule that would for the first time limit the number of mares that an individual stallion can cover during a North American breeding season beginning in 2021, a limitation that would have significant impacts on the breeding industry.
The late Arch made his legacy apparent on the final Saturday of the summer’s marquee race meetings, represented by graded stakes winners as a sire, sire-of-sires, and broodmare sire.
Preservationist, a 6-year-old son of Arch, won the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga after earlier this season winning the Grade 2 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park. In the process, he became a millionaire, and also, according to Equineline statistics, became the 13th Grade 1/Group 1 winner for Arch, who died in 2016 at Claiborne Farm.
Monday marked not only closing day at Saratoga, but the end of an era, as pioneering racing partnership Dogwood Stable, in partnership with Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, was represented by its final runner.
The stakes-placed winner Pipes, who Dogwood and Eclipse purchased last year as a juvenile, carried Dogwood’s colors to a runner-up effort in Monday’s seventh race. He was claimed for $30,000 by trainer Tom Morley for Thomas Albrecht, ending the horse’s association with the partnership.
This summer’s marquee summer race meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar, which traditionally unveil promising 2-year-olds, provided a major opportunity for this year’s highly anticipated class of freshman sires led by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah to step up – and step up, they did.
