Bold Chieftain, a multiple stakes winner and popular runner in Northern California, sired his first winner when the 2-year-old gelding I Came to Party won a one-mile maiden-claiming race at Los Alamitos on Dec. 20 in his fourth start. Bold Chieftain entered stud in 2012 and stands at Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville, Calif., for a fee of $3,000.
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Maimonides, a $4.6 million yearling purchase by Zayat Stables, will stand the 2016 breeding season at Hand Ride Stables in Dublin, Ohio. By Vindication out of Silvery Swan, by Silver Deputy, he is owned by Zayat Stables and will stand for a fee of $2,500. He stood at WinStar Farm in Kentucky in 2014 for the same fee.
The global racing and breeding operations of Darley and Godolphin, the two entities owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, will merge Jan. 1 and operate under Godolphin thereafter. The two had been operated as separate entities for years. Darley, under which all of Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock holdings formerly operated, will be used solely as the name of the stallion operation.
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The Jockey Club and the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation will hold the seventh Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit on June 28 in Lexington, Ky. The summit brings together a cross section of the breeding, racing, and veterinary communities to discuss improvements in racehorse and rider safety.
The summit will be held in the Keeneland sales pavilion and is open to the public; a live webcast also will be available. A formal agenda and a list of speakers will be announced at a later date.
Touch Gold, the winner of the 1997 Belmont Stakes and resident of Adena Springs in Paris, Ky., has been pensioned from stud duty and now resides at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky.
Touch Gold, a 21-year-old son of Deputy Minister, arrived at Old Friends on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of Alphabet Soup, a fellow Adena Springs pensioner who was retired to the farm in late October.
The post-World War II internationalization of Thoroughbred racing began officially in 1952 with the inauguration of the Washington, D.C., International at Laurel Racecourse. First won by English-trained Wilwyn, the International was the first annual event specifically designed to attract horses from both Europe and the U.S.
Over $110,000 was pledged by Thoroughbred owners and trainers toward aftercare efforts during New Vocations’ annual Breeders’ Cup Pledge fundraiser.
Participants pledged a percentage of their earnings to support New Vocations’ mission to rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome retired racehorses. Among the supporters of this year’s initiative were the connections of American Pharoah – Zayat Stables and Bob Baffert – as well as Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Stopchargingmaria’s connections, Town and Country Racing and trainer Todd Pletcher.
Castleton Lyons is accepting entries for the tenth annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, a competition recognizing excellence in writing in the Thoroughbred industry. The award comes with a $10,000 winner’s prize and a Tipperary Crystal trophy, and is named for the late Castleton Lyons founder Dr. Tony Ryan, whose twin passions for great writing and quality horse racing led to the launch of the competition in 2006.