As the great stallion A.P. Indy contentedly lives out his days as a pensioner at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., his legacy to the breed is already more than secure, thanks to his sons and grandsons at stud who continue to make headlines and new representatives looking to join the ranks.
If Arrogate continues his dominant parade through his principal remaining targets of 2017 he could easily earn $18 million to $20 million this year. With $7 million already in the bank and the $6 million first prize for the Dubai World Cup and about $3.5 million for another Breeders’ Cup Classic likely at his mercy, only a few more $1 million prep races would be required for him to earn more in one year than any horse in Thoroughbred history has earned in a career.
Brazilian champion Berlino Di Tiger and Grade 1 winner Lion Tamer have been exported to Jamaica to stand the 2017 breeding season.
Berlino Di Tiger, a 9-year-old son of Tiger Heart, enters stud at HAM Stables in Portmore for an advertised fee of about $622 (80,000 Jamaican dollars).
The Brazilian-bred started racing in his home country, where he was named champion sprinter in 2012 after winning the Group 1 Grande Prêmio Associação Brasileira de Criadores e Proprietários do Cavalo de Corrida and the Group 3 Grande Premio Presidente Julio Mesquita.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Lady Pamela, the well-bred allowance filly owned by Marty and Pam Wygod, will retire from racing and be bred this spring to Uncle Mo, trainer Cliff Sise said.
Lady Pamela, a 4-year-old Tapit filly produced by Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Life Is Sweet, finished seventh as the favorite in an allowance Feb. 24. Sise said Lady Pamela had a “meltdown” in the paddock, her second subpar effort since recovering from colic last fall. Lady Pamela won one of five starts.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Giant Oak was euthanized Wednesday due to complications from an acute onset severe neurological disease.
The 11-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway had resided his entire stallion career at Millennium Farms in Lexington, Ky., and had not covered any mares during the 2017 breeding season.
Anyone who’s ever attended a Thoroughbred racehorse auction will tell you that it’s an experience unlike any other. There’s an electricity in the air as anxious bidders gather to compete with one another, not merely for their claim to a particular animal, but for their purchase on the elusive dream of finding the next great horse.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will stand at Coolmore Australia during the 2017 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, which begins Sept. 1.
Irish War Cry
Curlin-Irish Sovereign, by Polish Numbers
(Bred in New Jersey by Isabelle de Tomaso)
Two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, who retired as North America’s leading money winner, was a force at classic distances throughout his racing career, winning the Preakness Stakes, Breeders’ Cup Classic, and Dubai World Cup. His offspring have followed closely in his footsteps.
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It would take some running for Uncle Mo’s second crop to catch up to his outstanding first crop, which currently includes 21 stakes winners, led by Kentucky Derby winner and champion Nyquist. But the young sire’s second crop is starting to come alive, with two more stakes-winning 3-year-olds over the weekend, including another Derby hopeful.
Conquest Mo Money won Sunday’s Mine That Bird Derby at Sunland Park in New Mexico; Mopotism captured the same track’s filly counterpart, the Island Fashion Stakes.
Bob Austin purchased the unraced mare Catch the Moon in foal for just $30,000 at the 2013 Keeneland January sale of horses of all ages. Less than three months later, she produced a Colonel John colt.
In November 2015, with that colt, Cocked and Loaded, a graded-stakes-winning juvenile, Catch the Moon took another trip through the Keeneland auction ring. Now, her value had risen, and she attracted the attention of top players, selling to Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm for $240,000.
