On August 19 and 20, the mare Unbridled Melody achieved the feat of having two of her progeny win stakes on turf at Saratoga. She four stakes winners from five foals of racing age.

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.

On Friday night, Rosemary Farm, a horse-rescue operation in the Catskills region of New York, purchased an unknown Thoroughbred with a “strange leg” from a livestock auction where kill buyers were shopping and immediately drove him to Rhineback Equine Hospital for evaluation.

For almost 300 years, all Thoroughbreds have descended in male line from three stallions imported into England from the Middle East between about 1686 and 1730.

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The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. has come a long way in its four decades of existence, but some of the most visible changes will come over the next year.

The early death of Scat Daddy from the sire ranks was a huge blow to his supporters and the breed, and this weekend will bring another reminder of how much he will be missed when Lady Aurelia runs at Deauville on August 21 in the Group 1 Prix Morny, which is an open for 2-year-olds.

The undefeated daughter of Scat Daddy is trained by Wesley Ward and clearly looks like the best 2-year-old in Europe of either sex. If she does have a challenger to the title of best in Europe at this point it comes from Irish-based colt Caravaggio, who also is by Scat Daddy.

Canadian classic winner and producer Misty Mission has died, Sam-Son Farm of Ontario recently announced. The Miswaki mare was 19.

Misty Mission made just three starts, with her signature victory coming in the Wonder Where Stakes, denying her stablemare Catch the Ring a Canadian Triple Tiara in the final leg of the series.

American Lion has been relocated from Kentucky to Oklahoma, according to an announcement from River Oaks Farm in Sulphur, Okla. He will stand at River Oaks in 2017, for an introductory fee of $1,000.

American Lion is a 9-year-old son of Tiznow. He won the Illinois Derby in 2010 and proceeded to run 11th in the Kentucky Derby. American Lion also won the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue at 2.