Well Dressed, the dam of 2009 Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed, was euthanized Monday at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., due to complications from foaling. She was 19.
Her newborn Medaglia d’Oro colt is in good health, and has been placed with a nurse mare at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., where Well Dressed had resided for the past 15 years. The mare and foal are owned by Bill and Susan Casner.
Tranquility Lake, a multiple Grade 1 winner and multiple Grade 1-producing broodmare, has died at age 21, her owners announced Tuesday.
The daughter of Rahy was owned by Pam, Martin, and Max Wygod, and Emily Wygod Bushnell, and will be buried at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky.
Bred in Kentucky by North Central Bloodstock, Tranquility Lake was purchased by the Wygods for $250,000 at the 1996 Keeneland July yearling sale.
She went on to win 11 of 27 starts for earnings of $1,662,390, running first for trainer David Hofmans, and later Julio Canani.
Effinex, who finished second to American Pharoah in the Breeders' Cup Classic and went on to win the Grade 1 Clark Handicap, has been named named New York's Horse of the Year. The state’s 2015 honors were presented at the New York Thoroughbred Breeders annual awards banquet, sponsored by the New York Breeding and Development Fund, Monday night in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Effinex, who has earned more than $2.2 million, was bred by Russell Cohen and is campaigned by his family racing operation Tri-Bone Stables. Effinex also earned honors as New York's champion older dirt male.
There is no relation between racing’s “Jones boys,” former Kentucky Gov. Brereton C. Jones and trainer Larry Jones.
On paper, anyway.
“We all tell everyone we’re cousins now,” Larry Jones said. “We’ve been at this long enough. We’re family.”
Larry Jones saddled his 1,000th winner with He’ll Pay, a colt whom Brereton Jones co-bred and owns, in the $100,000 Rushaway Stakes on Saturday at Turfway Park. That milestone victory was just the latest in the long string of successes for the trainer and his longtime client.
Nyquist’s impressive victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Florida Derby all but assures that the unbeaten champion 2-year-old male of 2015 will start as the favorite for the Kentucky Derby. Nyquist’s Florida Derby victory, however, will not remove the doubts many pedigree pundits have raised about whether or not there is sufficient stamina in his pedigree for him to stay the 10-furlong Kentucky Derby trip.
The International Grading and Race Planning Advisory Committee approved the promotion of Hong Kong to Part I of The International Cataloguing Standards Book, while South Korea has been promoted to Part II.
Both promotions were ratified by the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers. The changes take effect in Hong Kong on Sept. 1 and in Korea on July 1.
Willet, a five-time stakes winning New York-bred mare, has been retired, said trainer and part-owner Jimmy Iselin on Wednesday afternoon.
Iselin said that Willet, 8, will be bred to either American Pharoah or Candy Ride.
Willet, a daughter of Jump Start, had a record of 10-9-7 from 31 starts and earned $865,900. She won five stakes, though was unable to win a graded event. The closest she came was a second to Nefertini in the Grade 2 Go for Wand at Aqueduct in 2012. In 2013, she finished third in the Grade 1 Ballerina.
Fellowship
Awesome of Course – Go Girlfriend Go, by Demidoff
The Florida-bred Fellowship will face a tall order in his home state’s biggest race, the Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby on Saturday. The race has attracted early Kentucky Derby favorites Mohaymen and Nyquist, but even a third-place finish would put Fellowship in the starting gate at Churchill Downs should his connections choose to pursue that route.
