The owners of Zenyatta confirmed on Tuesday that the 2010 Horse of the Year is in foal to Candy Ride and believed to be carrying a filly. Zenyatta is boarded at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, which also stands Candy Ride, the sire of champions Gun Runner and Shared Belief.
The Jockey Club is projecting a 2020 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 20,500, slightly smaller than the foal crop of 2019, the Thoroughbred breed organization reported on Sunday.
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Constitution, unstarted as a juvenile, won the first three starts of his career, including the 2014 Florida Derby in just his third outing. His offspring are proving similarly quick studies.
There weren’t many takers the three times Concrete Rose went through the auction ring. The most the filly fetched in those outings was a relatively modest $61,000 when sold to her current connections as a juvenile.
That now looks like a rock-solid investment. Concrete Rose is now a millionaire, with victories in six of her seven starts for earnings of $1,218,650.
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Into Mischief, powered by Grade 1 Test Stakes winner Covfefe, took over the top spot on the general sire list for the first time in his career over the weekend. Through Sunday, the Spendthrift Farm stallion has earnings of $10,316,277. Quality Road, who began the season with City of Light’s victory in the rich Pegasus World Cup Invitational, sits second at $9,636,174, with perennial leading sire Tapit also closing in on the top two at $9,526,970.
In recent years, the club model of Thoroughbred ownership has grown in popularity in order to attract new owners to Thoroughbred racing, offering interested parties to buy a small share in a horse with a small single payment, offering ownership experiences with no additional costs – but also few, if any, financial rewards.
Three-time Eclipse Award champion Royal Delta, who will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Friday in Saratoga, had a star-crossed career as a broodmare, producing just one foal, on Feb. 1, 2017, before dying due to complications from that delivery. That Galileo filly, raised by a nurse mare, has been named Delta’s Royalty and is currently an unraced juvenile.
Deep Impact, a two-time Japanese Horse of the Year and one of the world's leading sires, was euthanized Tuesday at age 17. The son of Sunday Silence, an American dual classic winner who became a breed-shaping sire in Japan, was one of several sons of the legendary stallion ably carrying on his legacy, starting his career as Japan's leading freshman sire of 2010 before leading the general sire list each year since 2012.
