Wed, 05/17/2017 - 16:48

Tepin confirmed in foal to Curlin

Debbie Roma

Two-time champion turf mare Tepin has been confirmed in foal to two-time Horse of the Year Curlin on an April 30 cover.

Tepin, owned by Robert Masterson, is being boarded at Hill 'n' Dale Farm near Lexington, Ky., where Curlin stands.

Tue, 05/16/2017 - 15:51

Judge's Case dies at Old Friends at age 20

Barbara D. Livingston
Judge's Case was euthanized Monday at Old Friends Equine Retirement at the age of 20.

Judge's Case, a Grade 1-placed stakes winner, was euthanized Monday at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., due to chronic orthropedic disease. The gelded son of Montbrook was 20.

Bred in Florida by J.C. and Phyllis Dudley, Judge's Case earned $707,618 over the course of nine seasons and 104 starts, hitting the board 62 times and winning 16 races.

Mon, 05/15/2017 - 10:36

American Anthem gives Bodemeister another score

Shigeki Kikkawa
American Anthem wins the Lazaro Barrera Stakes last Saturday.

As his first-crop Kentucky Derby winner, Always Dreaming, prepares for the Preakness Stakes, Bodemeister added another feather to his cap when American Anthem won the Grade 3 Lazaro Barrera Stakes at Santa Anita last Saturday.

The win was the first graded stakes score for the well-regarded colt, who had previously finished second in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes before finishing off the board in two subsequent starts.

Mon, 05/15/2017 - 09:15

Sparkman: Zhukova hardly a reversal of fortune for Fastnet Rock

Barbara D. Livingston
Zhukova, a daughter of "reverse shuttle" stallion Fastnet Rock, wins the Man o' War Stakes on Saturday.

Although preceded by a few other stallions as proof of concept, it was the late, great Danehill who popularized the “shuttle stallion” model, with Coolmore sending him back and forth from Ireland, where he stood during the European breeding season, to Australia for the breeding season there. Eight times leading sire in Australia, Danehill overcame initial indifference in Europe to lead the English sire list twice and the French sire list three times.

Fri, 05/12/2017 - 12:20

Conquest Mo Money top grad of Conquest Stables dispersal

Coady Photography
Conquest Mo Money won both local preps for the Sunland Derby.

The dispersal of Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell’s Conquest Stables at the most recent round of Keeneland mixed sales offered an imposing slate of horses with high-level back class or strong potential.

In the eyes of most buyers, Conquest Mo Money offered neither.

Thu, 05/11/2017 - 10:35

Admiral Kitten to stand in South Africa

Four Footed Fotos
Admiral Kitten and Rosie Napravnik go past Stormy Len en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes on Saturday.

Grade 1 winner Admiral Kitten has been sold to stand at Moutonshoek Stud in South Africa starting with the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

The 7-year-old son of Kitten’s Joy is in his second season at stud and currently resides at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., where he stands for an advertised fee of $4,000. He debuted last year at Stroud’s Lane Farm in Reddick, Fla., where he was bred to 20 mares.

Wed, 05/10/2017 - 10:00

Zenyatta delivers Medaglia d'Oro filly

Alys Emson/Lane’s End Farm
Zenyatta, the winner of the 2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, with her newborn foal.

Zenyatta, a Hall of Famer and the 2010 Horse of the Year, produced her fifth foal on Tuesday night, a Medaglia d’Oro filly.

The mare has been boarded at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., since her retirement from the racetrack at the end of her 2010 campaign. Zenyatta and her foal are owned by Jerry and Ann Moss.

“Both mare and filly are in excellent health,” read a statement on the horse’s official website, Zenyatta.com.

Wed, 05/10/2017 - 09:56

China Horse Club raises already high profile with Kentucky Oaks win

Barbara D. Livingston
Abel Tasman wins the Kentucky Oaks for the China Horse Club, which eventually will retire her to its broodmare band.

China Horse Club tallied its biggest victory on North American soil when Abel Tasman scored the upset in the Kentucky Oaks last Friday, but the weekend’s business was far from over.

Mon, 05/08/2017 - 12:46

Always Dreaming's female family all California girls

Barbara D. Livingston
Trainer Todd Pletcher said Sunday that Always Dreaming emerged well from Saturday's Kentucky Derby.

While Always Dreaming is Kentucky born and bred and prepared for the spring classics in Florida, the Kentucky Derby still marked a major victory for the West Coast, as his first three dams were all bred in California.

Mon, 05/08/2017 - 12:46

Always Dreaming part of star-studded Keeneland September session

Keeneland Photo
Always Dreaming sold for $350,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale.

The opening session of the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale was just more than an hour old when a bay colt from the first crop of Bodemeister walked into the ring and ultimately sold for $350,000 to agent Steven W. Young out of the Dromoland Farm consignment.