Champion, classic winner, and classic sire Thunder Gulch has been pensioned at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky. The son of Gulch is 23.
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Hall of Famer Invasor will return to his South American roots to stand at Uruguay’s Haras Cuatro Piedras for three years, beginning with the 2015 Southern Hemisphere season.
The 13-year-old son of Candy Stripes has been based at Shadwell Stud near Lexington, Ky., which will partner with Haras Cuatro Piedras on his ongoing career. Shadwell Stud vice president and general manager Rick Nichols said Invasor will not shuttle back to the U.S. during the three-year period, though he will return to Shadwell at the end of his stud career if the two parties agree on a longer stay.
Fort Larned, winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic, sired his first foal Jan. 26 when the Awesome Again mare Belvedera produced a bay colt at Calloway Stables in Murray, Ky.
The colt is the first foal out of the unplaced Belvedera, who sold to Calloway Stables while carrying the colt, at the 2014 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Fort Larned stands at Adena Springs South in Williston, Fla., for an advertised fee of $12,500. He stood his first season at Adena Springs’ main base in Paris, Ky.
Grade 3 winner Sabercat has been retired from racing and will debut at stud in 2015 at Averett Farm in Loranger, La., for an advertised fee of $3,500.
The 6-year-old son of Bluegrass Cat finished his career with three wins in 23 career starts for earnings of $898,662 racing for Winchell Thoroughbreds and trainer Steve Asmussen.
City Zip has quietly fashioned a workmanlike stud career, flying somewhat under the radar in the star-studded firmament of central Kentucky’s stallion lineup while consistently turning out hard-knocking runners who produce on the track.
The Breeders’ Cup may have dropped its overly ambitious World Thoroughbred Championships moniker, but according to the results of the Eclipse Award ceremony on Jan. 17, the Breeders’ Cup meeting does a pretty good job of determining American championships. This year, six of the nine individual equine Eclipse Award winners for flat racing captured Breeders’ Cup races on Oct. 31 or Nov. 1.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Eblouissante, a half-sister to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, has been retired from racing and will be bred to one of England’s leading stallions in coming months.
Trainer John Shirreffs said on Friday that Eblouissante left his stable at Santa Anita early Tuesday for Kentucky, where she will be in quarantine before departing for Europe. Owned by Ian Banwell, Eblouissante will be bred to Oasis Dream or Frankel this year.
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 12:31
News coverage
- Horse of the Year is California's ambassador - By Steve Andersen
- Barretts kicks off year of growth, transition - By Steve Andersen
Profiles - 2014 California stallion honors
ARCADIA, Calif. – The horse with the ideal name has become the perfect ambassador for California Thoroughbred breeding.
When the immensely popular California Chrome was named 2014 Horse of the Year on Jan. 17, he gave California breeding a much-needed boost in recognition after several years of declining foal crops in one of the nation’s most important racing regions.
California’s top 10 general sires of 2014 averaged 124 starters each last season. Lucky Pulpit checked in significantly below that, with just 73 representatives on the track in 2014. But when one of those runners is California Chrome, numbers don’t matter.