Astern, a Group 1 winner in his native Australia, will shuttle to Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2018 Northern Hemisphere breeding season, and he will stand for an advertised fee of $15,000.
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Kitten’s Joy, North America’s leading sire by general progeny earnings in 2013 and a perennial leading turf sire, will relocate to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., after owner John G. Sikura purchased a 50 percent interest in the horse.
The 16-year-old son of El Prado arrives at Hill ‘n’ Dale on Monday, and will stand for an advertised fee of $60,000. He previously stood at the Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., where he was advertised in 2017 for $100,000.
Charles and Susan Chu, who race under the name Baoma Corp., have been chosen as the 2017 New Owner of the Year by OwnerView, honoring a new Thoroughbred owner who has had success on the track and a positive impact on the industry.
The award recognizes an entity that has owned Thoroughbreds for less than four years, had an interest in a horse at the time it won a stakes race in the past 12 months, and has a verifiable owner’s license in the current year. It will be presented during OwnerView’s Thoroughbred Owner Conference, scheduled for Oct. 30–Nov. 1 in Del Mar, Calif.
Just a stone’s throw from her favorite racetrack at trainer Wesley Ward’s Keeneland-adjacent property, champion Judy the Beauty is thriving in her second career as a broodmare. The Ghostzapper mare delivered her first foal, a filly from the first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, on April 21.
Broodmares who exert as important and pervasive an influence on the breed as great sires generally occur no more than a few times per century. Almost always they must exert that influence through great sire sons, as Urban Sea has done through her sons, the incomparable Galileo and the outstanding Sea The Stars.
Memories of Silver, a Darby Dan homebred who was both a Grade 1 winner and producer for the historic operation, was euthanized Sept. 18 due to the infirmities of old age. The Silver Hawk mare was 24.
Bred by the Galbreath/Phillips Racing Partnership, Memories of Silver first raced in the name of Darby Dan steward John Phillips’s late father, James W. “Wally” Phillips, and later for John Phillips and his mother, Joan. The mare was trained throughout her career by Jimmy Toner, who continues with the operation’s homebreds today.
Ken Ramsey has made a successful stallion of his homebred champion Kitten’s Joy by marching to the beat of his own drum. Soon, he and his stallion might be playing for a different audience.
The Nicholasville, Ky.,-based owner and breeder said he needed to boost the commercial appeal of Kitten’s Joy, a 16-year-old who was North America’s leading sire by earnings in 2013 and currently sits second in this year’s standings behind Unbridled’s Song.
Cyrus Alexander, a Grade 3 winner and seven-figure yearling, is in the midst of his first Southern Hemisphere season at stud at Boris Schwartzman’s Haras Barlovento in Peru.
The deal to export Cyrus Alexander was brokered by bloodstock agent Marette Farrell, who reported on her website Wednesday that he already has mares confirmed in foal.
Ever since he first stepped onto the public stage at the 1996 Keeneland July sale of selected yearlings, Arch has been a star. Purchased that day for $710,000 by Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm as agent for Claiborne and Adele Dilschneider, Arch validated that investment by winning 5 of 7 starts, all at 2 and 3, including the Grade 1 Super Derby. His stud career has been solid but not spectacular.