Songandaprayer, a Grade 1 winner and two-time leading sire in Louisiana, has relocated to Journeyman Stallions in Ocala, Fla., for the 2018 breeding season and will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000.
The 20-year-old Unbridled’s Song horse previously resided at Copper Crowne in Opelousas, La., where he stood for $4,500 in 2017. Songandaprayer has sired 14 crops of racing age, with 651 winners and progeny earnings in excess of $49.3 million.
The blue-blooded Sabbatical has delivered the first foal for the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Foal Patrol project, a colt by prominent sire War Front.
Sabbatical, who is owned by Phipps Stable, resides at historic Claiborne Farm in Kentucky and delivered the foal shortly before 6 a.m. Friday. The mare is among eight broodmares in three states participating in the Foal Patrol project, a one-of-a-kind collection of live web cameras where people can view real-time streams of several in-foal mares during their pregnancy through the actual foaling and days following.
Daily Racing Form's annual special edition takes an in-depth look at North America's leading sires, based in Kentucky, the Thoroughbred capital of the nation. Read about earnings leaders Candy Ride and Unbridled's Song; examine the latest accomplishments for perennial standouts Tapit and War Front; review Medaglia d'Oro's seven Grade 1 winners; learn more about the breakout freshman sires of 2017; and more. Our staff also looks at leading sires and prominent farms in the surrounding Midwest region.
When it came to siring elite-level runners in 2017, nobody did it quite to the level of Claiborne Farm’s War Front, and it appears his run in the upper echelon has only begun.
The prominent commercial sire has backed up his six-figure stud fee and numerous seven-figure yearlings with performance on the racetrack.
Medaglia d’Oro is coming off a career year in 2017. That’s saying something, since the Darley stallion’s résumé already featured Hall of Fame racemare Rachel Alexandra, two-time Eclipse Award champion Songbird, and Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty.
After breaking the single-season earnings record for a North American stallion for three consecutive years, from 2014-16, Tapit was dethroned from atop the general sires earnings list in 2017. However, the Gainesway resident – whose seasonal record of $19,245,198 remains the standard – still made more history.
In case the first four times he did it didn’t prove that Kitten’s Joy is a transcendent sire of turf runners, the new resident of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms went ahead and led North America’s stallion ranks by grass earnings for a fifth straight year in 2017.
The difference in earnings between Overanalyze, the leading freshman sire of 2017, and runner-up Violence was $76,122, roughly the winner’s share of a maiden special weight purse at Kentucky Downs.
Distorted Humor has been on an upward trajectory as a broodmare sire in recent years, and he took over the category in 2017.
