Multiple graded stakes winner Irish War Cry has been honored as the New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year by the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association of New Jersey.
The millionaire Curlin colt, also honored as the state's 3-year-old of the year, raced as a homebred for Isabelle de Tomaso. He won the Holy Bull Stakes and Wood Memorial, both Grade 2 events, early in the season, and later finished second, beaten two lengths by Tapwrit, in the Belmont Stakes.
Grade 1 winner Dublin has been sold to Mohns Hill Farm in Reinholds, Pa., and will stand the 2018 breeding season for a private fee.
The 11-year-old Afleet Alex horse previously resided at Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y., for $2,500. In 2016, Keane Stud purchased a controlling interest in Dublin from Spendthrift Farm, which bought the horse to stand at stud following his retirement from the racetrack.
Jen Roytz has been named the new executive director of the Retired Racehorse Project.
Her appointment is one of several board additions and staffing changes announced by RRP, which will host its flagship Thoroughbred Makeover show Oct. 4-7 at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Snuck In, a Grade 3 winner, has been moved to Sky PH Quarter Horses and Paints in Paynton, Saskatchewan, for the 2018 breeding season and is advertised for 1,500 Canadian dollars. The 21-year-old son of Montbrook previously stood at Matthews Thoroughbred Farm in Benton, La., for $1,000.
Snuck In has sired 13 crops, with 180 winners and progeny earnings of more than $10.7 million. His top runners include five-time stakes winner Sneak a Cold Treat, four-time stakes winner Sneaking Uponyou, and stakes winners Star Snuck, Sneakin By, and Captin Bry.
Canadian champion Eye of the Leopard will relocate to Osborne Farm in Cambridge, Minn., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $1,500 for the 2018 breeding season.
The 12-year-old son of A.P. Indy previously resided at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he was advertised for $2,500.
Eye of the Leopard has sired three crops of racing age, with 13 winners and combined progeny earnings of $345,357. His highest earner is Divine Kitten, a two-time winner who has made $56,149.
Justify
Scat Daddy –Stage Magic, by Ghostzapper
Bred in Kentucky by John D. Gunther ($500,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by China Horse Club and Maverick Racing)
The champion Untapable delivered her first foal, a colt by Frankel, in England over the weekend, and will remain overseas for the immediate future to be bred back to Frankel.
The chestnut colt’s arrival was reported on Twitter by David Fiske, manager for Winchell Thoroughbreds, which campaigned Untapable as a homebred. The mare is the highest-earning female by perennial leading sire Tapit, whom the Winchells campaigned and maintain an interest in at Gainesway Farm.
As with any great race, winners of the Breeders’ Cup Classic have earned varying degrees of success at stud.
Just since 2000, Tiznow, Ghostzapper, Saint Liam (though short-lived), and Curlin can be counted as genuine successes, while Volponi, Pleasantly Perfect, Invasor, and Drosselmeyer cannot.
Principe Guilherme
Tapit–Aubby K, by Street Sense
Bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm ($600,000 purchase by Mill Valley Racing at 2015 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale)
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