Two-time champion female sprinter Groupie Doll delivered her second foal, a filly by reigning two-time leading sire Tapit, on Monday at Timber Town Farm near Lexington, Ky.

Both of Groupie Doll’s foals are by Tapit. Her first foal, a colt delivered last March, arrived ahead of his due date and spent a significant amount of time at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington, where the staff was able to nurse him back to health before returning him to Timber Town. Groupie Doll showed no ill effects following that delivery and before being bred back to Tapit.

Grade 2 winner Vicar’s in Trouble was euthanized March 11 due to long-running complications from laminitis.

The 5-year-old son of Into Mischief last raced in the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita, where he was vanned off after suffering a condylar fracture in his left front leg in a pace-pressing, then rapidly fading effort.

Owner Ken Ramsey said Vicar’s in Trouble underwent surgery shortly after the race, but the horse was plagued with complications during the recovery process.

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Mineshaft – Uchitel, by Afleet Alex

(Purchased for $72,000 by S.F. Henderson at the 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale)

The champion Mineshaft, standing just across the aisle from his great sire, A.P. Indy, in the Lane’s End stallion barn, has quietly fashioned a solid stud career for himself. Carrying the banner is his Grade 3 Southwest Stakes winner, Suddenbreakingnews, who will take the next step on the Kentucky Derby trail in Saturday’s Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

The Turkish-born Seventh Sense scored by 2 1/4 lengths in a maiden special weight race Saturday at Santa Anita.

Agent Omer Halim Aydin, who buys horses on behalf of the Turkish Jockey Club, picked up the colt’s dam, the winning Distorted Humor mare No Dress Code, for $100,000 out of the 2012 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. The following March, she delivered her City Zip colt, a full brother to multiple graded stakes winner Reneesgotzip, in Turkey.

Owner and breeder J. Paul Reddam came into this season loaded with 3-year-old prospects – thanks in no small part to his faith in a talented but unlucky former runner of his.

For all he has achieved at stud, there are a few accomplishments that perennial leading sire Giant’s Causeway, based at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky, has yet to check off his list. Chief among those is siring a U.S. classic winner, with his best finish in the series the third-place finish by Creative Cause in the 2012 Preakness Stakes.

Last weekend’s two major Kentucky Derby preps were dominated by descendants of two well-established stallions who were already enjoying very good years in 2016.

Jeffrey Cannizzo has been at the helm for New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. during one of the biggest turnarounds in the state’s history, fueled by the benefits tied to the opening of Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct in 2011.

Giant Surprise was a scintillating winner in his racing debut at Saratoga on July 30, 2011, romping by 4 1/2 lengths and running six furlongs in 1:10.23. He never made it back to the winner’s circle. Pulled up while galloping out and vanned off the track, he was diagnosed with a non-displaced condylar fracture to his left foreleg and was subsequently retired.

As the calendar turns, the story remains the same. The durable Freud continues to thoroughly dominate his niche of the stallion market in New York, leading the state’s turf sire rankings for the eighth consecutive year.

Freud, who is based at Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., sired 32 winners on turf from 108 starters for earnings of $2,401,555. His totals far outpaced the runner-up, the late Disco Rico, who had 10 winners and progeny earnings of $858,062.