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.
The Weekly Stakes Report, presented by Darley, provides owners, breeders, and industry participants and fans with comprehensive results of all stakes races held in North America. The report, published every Tuesday, includes the results of all North American stakes of the recently-completed week, through Sundays. The publication is the most complete report of stakes available from any publication anywhere, with full results of the race, details on the winner, a 3-cross pedigree of the winner, information on the sire of the winner, and full details on the winner's female family.
Grade 1 winner Havana will begin his stud career in The Philippines at Rancho Santa Rosa in Quezon City.
The 4-year-old son of Dunkirk finished his on-track career with two wins in seven career starts, including a victory in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes. He also finished second in the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile during a campaign in which he finished as an Eclipse Award finalist for champion 2-year-old male.
Todd Pletcher trained Havana for the Coolmore partnership of Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier, and Derrick Smith.
Stephen Got Even, a Grade 1 winner and longtime resident of Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., has been pensioned from stallion duty and will reside at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky.
The 19-year-old son of A.P. Indy was initially scheduled to stand the 2016 breeding season for an advertised fee of $5,000 before the decision was made to retire him from stud duty.
Grade 2 winner Salute the Sarge was sold to Saudi Arabian interests at the conclusion of the 2015 breeding season and will stand there in 2016.
The 10-year-old son of Forest Wildcat previously stood at E.A. Ranches in Ramona, Calif., where he was most recently advertised for a fee of $1,000.
The prominent young sire Scat Daddy died of a suspected cardiac event Monday at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky. The son of Johannesburg was 11.
"Scat Daddy was in the best of health, but totally unexpectedly, he dropped dead when walking out of his paddock,” Ashford manager Dermot Ryan said. “Everyone here at Ashford is very upset as he was a smashing horse with a great career ahead of him.”
Unusual Heat, one of California’s perennial leading sires, is booked full for the 2016 breeding season with an advertised fee of $20,000, but is accepting approved mares to a waiting list.
The 25-year-old son of Nureyev stands at Harris Farm in Coalinga, Calif. Unusual Heat has sired 15 crops of racing age, with 385 winners and combined progeny earnings of $49,322,022.
Woodford Thoroughbreds has named Matt Lyons vice president and general manager of its farms in Versailles, Ky., and Reddick, Fla.
Lyons, a native of Ireland, has been with Woodford since 2007 serving as general farm manager.
He first arrived in the U.S. in 1998 under a work placement program at Glennwood Farm in Kentucky. Lyons returned to Ireland and received a degree in Equine Science at the University of Limerick before taking a position as division manager at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., in 2001.
