Doug Scharbauer purchased Valor Farm, located in the North Texas town of Pilot Point, from the estate of his late father, Clarence Scharbauer Jr., earlier this month, according to farm general manager Ken Carson.
Doug Scharbauer has raced such horses as Fiftyshadesofgold, a Grade 3 winner of more than $400,000 bred by his father, and He’s Comin In Hot, winner of last year’s Grade 3 Bashford Manor at Churchill Downs.
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It took some time for Washington state freshman sire Atta Boy Roy to get his first winner, that coming on August 13 when first-time starter Risque’s Legacy won by nine lengths at Emerald Downs. That filly also turned out to be his first stakes winner. Risque’s Legacy, a Washington homebred of Karl Krieg, came back on August 28 to win the $50,000 Washington Cup Two Year Old Filly Stakes at Emerald Downs.
Turf or dirt, homebred or sales selection, older horse or younger, East Coast or West – the international Juddmonte Farms operation dominated Saratoga with any type of horse last Saturday.
First, the European type Flintshire, a product of Juddmonte’s outstanding homebred program, posted a repeat victory in the Sword Dancer Invitational on turf as the heavy favorite for trainer Chad Brown. Then, the unheralded Arrogate, specifically purchased for American-style racing under the care of Bob Baffert, made it a Grade 1 double by turning the Travers Stakes into a runaway.
Few, if any, Thoroughbreds have given their connections the kind of roller-coaster ride provided by the late Unbridled’s Song. Sold for a then-record $1.4 million at the 1995 Barrett’s sale of selected 2-year-olds in training, the thrill ride took a sickening turn two days later when the buyer returned the horse to former owner Ernie Paragallo because of a suspicious ankle radiograph.
Stonesider, a winning son of Giant’s Causeway and sire of multiple stakes winners, will relocate to Valor Farm in Pilot Point, Texas, for the 2017 breeding season.
The 13-year-old had previously resided at Keane Stud in New York, where he was most recently advertised for $3,500.
First-time starter Regere won a $20,000 maiden-claiming race at Delaware Park today to become the first winner for his freshman sire, Rule.
Rule, who stands for $4,000 at Montesacro Farm in Georgetown, Ky., has had four starters from his first crop of 22 foals, and he also is represented by the juvenile gelding Ruled, who was second in the Graduation Stakes at Assiniboia Downs as a maiden.
Japanese supersire Deep Impact was represented by a rare winner in the U.S. on Friday, as Tale of Life won an allowance race at Saratoga.
During his own racing career, Deep Impact won Japan’s Triple Crown and was Horse of the Year twice. He has gone on to continue the legacy of his sire, the late Sunday Silence, in Japan, leading the nation’s sire standings three times, with 87 stakes winners and eight champions, including two-time Horse of the Year Gentildonna.
The late Scat Daddy added two additional Grade/Group 1 winners to his résumé over the weekend, as Harmonize posted a breakthrough victory in the Del Mar Oaks and Lady Aurelia continued her globetrotting juvenile campaign by winning the Prix Morny in France.
Chilean-bred champion Dacita brought a decidedly international flavor to the 2015 Saratoga meet, winning the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes in her first start in the U.S., handing another well-traveled champion, Tepin, what is her most recent loss.
