Welcoming a classic winner to a stallion roster is a proud moment. Welcoming two to the roster in the same year is an exceptional rarity. Spendthrift Farm will welcome two winners of American Triple Crown races to its stallion ranks for the 2025 season – and if that isn’t enough, the farm adds another Grade 1 winner as well.
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There may still be scorch marks on the Saratoga turf from Cogburn’s virtuoso performance in this year’s Grade 1 Jaipur as he sizzled 5 1/2 furlongs in less than a minute for a North American record.
Despite a loss in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in his career finale, Cogburn will begin his stallion career as an extremely hot commodity whose bandwagon is becoming crowded with supporters.
A stallion is only half the equation – and, in getting a new stallion off on the right foot, a premium is placed on the quality of mares behind him. Few are in a position to support their new stallions better than Mandy Pope.
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 10:47
Five years after shocking the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at 45-1 odds, the 2019 champion juvenile male Storm the Court has been retired to stud in California. Trainer Peter Eurton said the 7-year-old was relocated to Eclipse Thoroughbred Training Center in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he will begin stud duty next spring.
Storm the Court paid $93.80 winning the BC Juvenile in 2019 at Santa Anita; the payoff is a Juvenile record. Storm the Court, however, never won again. He started 26 more times, including a last-place finish Nov. 17 in a Del Mar allowance that was his career finale.
Breeders' Cup Mile winner More Than Looks has been retired and will begin his stud career at Lane's End Farm.
Owners Victory Racing Partners said immediately after the Breeders’ Cup that they intended to race More Than Looks as a 5-year-old next year. However, trainer Cherie DeVaux said the son of the late More Than Ready was found to have reinjured the tendon in his right foreleg, an issue that delayed his return to the races in 2024.
“It’s one of those things where he’s proven what he has,” DeVaux said. “It’s a long recovery.”
Old Forester, the sire of 2017 Canadian Horse of the Year Pink Lloyd, died peacefully at age 23 at T.C. Westmeath Stud on Nov. 17, according to farm owner John Carey.
Old Forester won the Grade 3 Cliff Hanger at The Meadowlands in 2006 and placed in several other graded stakes while earning $462,632 as a turf specialist.
Wootton Bassett was already a successful sire when he was purchased by the Coolmore group and moved from France to the international operation’s Irish headquarters. He has rapidly rewarded Coolmore, as his first Irish-conceived 2-year-olds on the track this year have been nothing short of sensational.
Europe’s leading juvenile sire and a top 10 general sire, Wootton Bassett is poised for continued success in international events – especially since Coolmore continues to bolster his book. The mares will include purchases made this month in Kentucky.
Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Moira, who sold for $4.3 million to rank among the top prices of the Fasig-Tipton November sale, could continue racing before beginning her broodmare career in Australia.
Moira was purchased via an online bid using the moniker “Bayles.” That has been revealed to be the Australia-based Yulong Investments. The breeding season in Australia, in the Southern Hemisphere, runs from September through December, meaning the window to ship Moira and get her in foal this season is rapidly closing.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jane Lyon, who bred and raised unbeaten 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline at her Summer Wind Farm, continued on as part of his racing partnership and now has welcomed several foals by the champion. She takes incredible pride in her horse’s accomplishments.
“It is more than pride,” she tried to explain. “It’s like your child graduates cum laude. He is such a dream come true for me. . . . I want to support him. Every time I go see him I get chills. I want so much for him to reproduce just a fraction of his ability.”