Palace Malice showed stamina, emerging from consistent classic sire Curlin’s first crop to win the 2013 Belmont Stakes. One year later, he showed brilliance, cutting back to the one-turn mile at Belmont Park to defeat Goldencents in the Metropolitan Handicap, considered a stallion-making race.
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Improbable
City Zip–Rare Event, by A.P. Indy
Bred in Kentucky by St. George Farm and G. Watts Humphrey Jr. ($110,000 Keeneland November weanling purchase by Taylor Made Sales; $200,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Maverick Racing and China Horse Club)
Imperial Hint was honored as the Florida-bred Horse of the Year and World of Trouble took home special recognition from Daily Racing Form as the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association recognized its champions at an annual awards banquet Monday night in Ocala, Fla.
While unbeaten Triple Crown winner Justify, the globe-trotting Grade 1 winner Mendelssohn, and other stakes competitors by the late Scat Daddy have entered stud this season, the well-traveled No Nay Never is already burnishing their sire’s legacy.
Breeders have reported the first mares in foal to unbeaten Triple Crown winner Justify, who began his stud career last month at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
Ahead of a season of juvenile racing in which a strong class of freshman sires will be featured, B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm has introduced the “Safe Bet” program, designed to incentivize breeders to support the farm’s current freshmen in their fourth seasons at stud in 2019.
Code of Honor
Noble Mission – Reunited, by Dixie Union
Bred in Kentucky by W.S. Farish
Vekoma
Candy Ride-Mona de Momma, by Speightstown
Bred in Kentucky by Alpha Delta Stables ($135,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by R.A. Hill Stable)
Spiced Perfection, winner of the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26, was named the 2018 California-bred horse of the year in a ceremony Monday in San Gabriel, Calif.
Spiced Perfection also was honored as the champion 3-year-old filly and champion sprinter.
Owned by Dare to Dream Stables and trained by Brian Koriner in 2018, Spiced Perfection won 4 of 8 starts and earned $455,125 in her championship season.