Multiple graded stakes winner American Lion has been pensioned from stallion duty, gelded, and is available for adoption as a sport horse prospect at New Vocations in Lexington, Ky.
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Italian Group 1 winner Biondetti, Florida’s leading freshman sire of 2016, will relocate to continue his stallion career at Poplar Creek Horse Center in Bethel, Ohio. He is part of a duo of incoming stallions for the farm, with the other coming from much closer to home, as Ohio champion sprinter Rivers Run Deep retires for 2019.
Grade 1 winner and sire Stephen Got Even has died, Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky., reported on Tuesday. The 23-year-old stallion spent his entire stud career at his birthplace of Lane's End, and continued to reside there after being pensioned following the 2015 season.
Mark Valeski didn’t get the press of Cross Traffic, whose first-crop daughter Jaywalk coasted in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. He also lacked the numbers of runners to reach the top ranks of a competitive freshman sire earnings list, in which four individuals had progeny earnings of more than a million. But what Airdrie Stud’s homebred lacked in quantity, he made up in consistency and quality.
Maximus Mischief recorded the top Beyer Speed Figure for a 2-year-old of 2018, recording a 98 for an allowance win at Parx which preceded his score in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes to cap an unbeaten campaign.
The makeup of the general sires earnings list has shifted in recent years thanks to multimillion-dollar purses for events such as the Pegasus World Cup and Dubai World Cup. Tapit is among the elite sires fighting an uphill battle against those statistics, as his three-year run atop the general sires earnings list, in which he established a single-season record for a North American sire each year from 2014 to 2016, ended with the advent of the Pegasus in 2017.
The longest of long shots in the Jan. 26 Pegasus World Cup is likely to be Cuadra San Jorge’s Kukulkan, despite the fact that the Mexican-bred colt is undefeated in 14 starts, including a 10-length romp in the Caribbean Classic at Gulfstream Park on Dec. 8.
WinStar Farm and Blazing Meadows Farm, which have campaigned several stakes-winning Ohio-breds together in recent years, have launched a formal partnership entitled WinBlaze LLC to stand graded stakes winner National Flag at Blazing Meadows in North Jackson, Ohio.
In conjunction with the opening of Santa Anita’s marquee winter meeting, our annual California Stallions special edition, presented by CTBA Sales, takes a look at leading and incoming sires in the Golden State, plus the changing sale scene in the region.
COMPLETE INSERT PDF: 2019 California Stallions, presented by CTBA Sales