Richard W. Lossen, a prominent owner, breeder, and bloodstock agent, died Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Ky., at age 76.
An Ohio native, Lossen followed his parents on the rodeo circuit in his youth before his family settled in Warren, Ohio, to train Thoroughbreds. Lossen spent his summers as an exercise rider, groom, and hotwalker for his father, Joseph Lossen, in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.
The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) has approved awards and classes for nearly 750 shows in 43 states or Canadian provinces for 2015.
The show disciplines covered by the T.I.P. include eventing, dressage, Western and English pleasure, hunter/jumper, Western performance, games, polo, and polocrosse. A full calendar of events is available on the T.I.P. website.
Australian champion Pierro was Australia’s most active stallion during the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, covering 220 mares in his second year at stud.
The 6-year-old son of Lonhro stood the season at Coolmore Australia, where he was advertised for a fee of about $60,217 ($77,000 Australian).
The stud career of Birdstone has been as odd as any stallion’s in recent memory. Despite retiring to Gainesway in 2005 with victories in the classic Belmont Stakes and Grade 1 Travers and Champagne to his credit, he never has been particularly popular with breeders but sired the classic winners Mine That Bird and Summer Bird, plus the graded winners Birdrun, Livin Lovin, and S. S. Stone, as well as two other stakes winners from his first crop of 66 named foals.
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.
