Stakes winner Mosler has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2017 at Josh and Mike Pons’s Country Life Farm in Maryland.
Mosler arrived last Sunday at Country Life, which has formed a syndicate to stand the horse with Adele B. Dilschneider, who purchased Mosler as a yearling and campaigned him on the track; and Dilschneider’s longtime business partner, Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm, who bred the horse in the name of his Cherry Valley.
Grade 1 winner Discreet Cat will relocate to Darley Japan for the 2017 breeding season.
The 13-year-old son of Forestry stood this past breeding season at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $7,500. His fee in Japan will be announced at a later time.
Discreet Cat has sired six crops of racing age, with 277 winners and combined progeny earnings of more than $23.5 million.
Prominent commercial sire War Front's breeding fees are increasing to $250,000 in 2017, Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., announced Monday.
The 14-year-old son of Danzig stood for $200,000 in 2016, a season that has produced runners including Grade/Group 1 winners Avenge and Brave Anna; Grade/Group 2 winners On Leave, Roly Poly, and War Decree; and Grade/Group 3 winners American Patriot, Long Island Sound, Intelligence Cross, Royal Artillery, and War Flag.
It took about 12.7 seconds for Time and Motion to charge her final furlong down the center of the Keeneland turf course late Saturday afternoon, delving between Hawksmoor on the rail and a flying Harmonize on the outside, thrusting her elegant bay head with its distinctive blaze toward the rapidly approaching wire.
But in those brief seconds, well over half a century of Thoroughbred history was racing through the mind of Darby Dan Farm owner John Phillips as he stood in the rocking Keeneland grandstand, surrounded by a crowd of almost 30,000 willing those three fillies home.
Two winters ago on one of my visits to Jimmy Crupi’s New Castle Farm to inspect the 2-year-olds training there owned by Vincent and Teresa Viola, I could not help noticing the elegant, beautifully made Tapit filly in a corner stall at the other end of the shed row from the Viola’s Greenpointcrusader. The dam’s name written on the stall door evoked memories of a chilly spring day at Keeneland more than a decade earlier when I had collected on one of my very rare racetrack wagers on the 3-year-old debut of a filly named Ellie’s Moment, by Kris S.
Even after he was pensioned from stallion duty three years ago, Quiet American remained a prominent presence at Darley’s Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky.
The high-headed bay continued to reside in the back stallion barn at the farm’s manicured stallion complex, sharing an aisle of the barn with 1994 Horse of the Year Holy Bull and the since-deceased Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Cherokee Run. Quiet American continued to attract visitors in his old age and was feted with a 30th birthday party at the farm April 29, his foaling date.
Judy Klosterman, an Ohio-based owner, breeder, and consignor, died Oct. 13 from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. She was 78.
A native of South Fort Mitchell, Ky., Klosterman’s first experience in the Thoroughbred industry came at the young age of 10, when she convinced her father to buy her a broodmare at the 1950 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, she moved into breeding show collies, bringing up about 15 champion dogs.
Grade 1 winner and prominent stallion Quiet American, sire of two Eclipse Award champions and broodmare sire of two more, has been euthanized at age 30 at Darley’s Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky.
Quiet American, a son of Fappiano, had been retired from stud duty in 2013 at the farm, and continued to reside in its back stallion barn as an often-visited pensioner. He was feted with a 30th birthday party at the farm this year on April 29, his foaling date.
Grade 1-winning millionaire Majestic Harbor has been retired and will take up stud duties in 2017 at Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., joining a growing roster at that operation. His fee will be announced at a later date.
Majestic Harbor, an 8-year-old son of Rockport Harbor, last raced in June, finishing third, beaten less than a length, in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs. Prior to that, he won the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes on the Kentucky Oaks undercard – his second graded triumph of the season, adding to the Grade 3 Mineshaft Handicap at Fair Grounds.
Australian champion Vancouver will shuttle to Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., for the 2017 Northern Hemisphere breeding season.
The 4-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro debuted at stud this summer at Coolmore Australia during the Southern Hemisphere season. A fee will be announced at a later time.
