Palace Malice, winner of the 2013 Belmont Stakes, has been retired from racing and will stand the 2016 breeding season at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky.
The 5-year-old son of Curlin had been training toward a start in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes on Sept. 5 at Saratoga, but Cot Campbell, president of co-owner Dogwood Stable, said the horse had not strode out with the same fluidity in recent days as he previously has shown.
Grade 2 winner Bahamian Squall has been retired from racing and will debut at stud for the 2016 breeding season at Double Diamond Farm in Ocala, Fla.
The 6-year-old son of Gone West retires with five wins in 25 career starts for earnings of $582,920, led by wins in the Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap and the listed Sunshine State Stakes. He also placed in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap, the Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship Stakes, and seven additional non-graded stakes.
Grade 3 winner Fury Kapcori has been retired from racing and will stand the 2016 breeding season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla.
The 5-year-old son of Tiznow ends his career with six wins in 18 starts for earnings of $521,040, highlighted by wins in the Grade 3 Precisionist Stakes, as well as the non-graded Charlie Palmer Futurity and Santana Mile Stakes. He also placed in the Grade 1 Cashcall Futurity and the Grade 2 Californian Stakes.
Jerry Hollendorfer trained Fury Kapcori and co-owned him with Rick Awtrey and George Todaro.
With his regal parentage, the debut of Jess's Dream was highly anticipated, and the colt didn't disappoint, launching a dramatic rally after spotting the field as many as 12 lengths to win a maiden special weight race on Aug. 24 at Saratoga. The Stonestreet Stables homebred is the product of two Horse of the Year honorees in Curlin and Rachel Alexandra. The latter, who was wildly popular at Saratoga, is now represented by two winners from as many starters after Rachel's Valentina won her debut earlier this month.
The $3-million All American Futurity is Quarter Horse racing’s richest event, but the purse could be seized by a horse with Thoroughbred bloodlines.
A total of 10 juveniles with a Thoroughbred sire or dam will be among the 325 horses in 34 trials over Friday and Saturday at Ruidoso Downs vying for one of 10 spots in the gate for the lucrative final, which will be held Sept. 7.
Dank, the Eclipse Award winner for champion turf female in 2013, has been reported in foal to global sire Galileo for her first pregnancy.
The 6-year-old Dansili mare is owned by James Wigan, who campaigned her during her on-track career, and resides at West Blagdon Stud near Salisbury, England. Her expected due date is Feb. 28.
America’s broad economic disaster of 2008 hit the Thoroughbred business like a hard-swung sledgehammer, staggering the industry with precipitous declines in the foal crop, number of mares bred, and number of active stallions from coast to coast. Florida – the region that had given us such Hall of Fame champions as Dr. Fager, Affirmed, Needles, Susan’s Girl, Precisionist, Ta Wee, Desert Vixen, and Skip Away – was not exempt from the pain.
Prominent Kentucky breeder Kathryn Martin West died Tuesday in her Midway, Ky. residence at age 91.
West and her late husband, Robert Smiser West, developed Waterford Farm in Midway, Ky., into a leading commercial breeding and consignment operation, breeding most of their horses in partnership with Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller and his wife Martha.
Freud has been a dominant sire in New York for the better part of the last decade, and that dominance was clearly showcased in the Statue of Liberty division of the New York Stallion Series on Aug. 13 at Saratoga Race Course. The filly Freudie Anne led home a parade of finishers for the stallion, who swept the superfecta.
When the late John M. Schiff’s Court Martial filly Goofed won the 1 1/2-mile Ladies Handicap as a 3-year-old in 1963, the race was easily the equivalent of a contemporary Grade 1, far superior to the pallid imitation the New York Racing Association and time have made of a once-great race.
