Recently retired announcer Tom Durkin will join the team at the West Point Thoroughbreds partnership, as an owner and in other roles.
Durkin will work directly with West Point founder and president Terry Finley and chief operating officer Tom Bellhouse in business development and partnership relations. Durkin, a longtime Standardbred owner, will also be an equity partner on West Point runners.
Atreides, a multiple stakes-winner and son of multiple Grade 1-winning mare Dream Rush, has been retired from racing due to a tendon injury and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $6,500.
The 4-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro finishes his on-track career with four wins in five career starts for earnings of $120,176, highlighted by victories in the Monarchos Stakes and Aventura Handicap, both at Gulfstream Park. He was campaigned as a Kentucky homebred by Stonestreet Stables and was trained by Martin Wolfson.
Grade 2-placed stakes winner Uptowncharlybrown will relocate to Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa., for the 2015 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $1,500.
The 8-year-old son of Limehouse previously stood at Penn Ridge Farm in Harrisburg, Pa., where he was advertised for the same fee. His first foals are yearlings of 2015.
Trinniberg, the champion sprinter of 2012, was represented by his first foal Sunday night when Princesspatseattle delivered a filly at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y.
The filly is the second foal out of Princesspatseattle, an unraced Airdrie Apache mare. The mare’s first foal, the Bluegrass Cat colt Artic Storm Cat, is a registered white Thoroughbred.
Trinniberg stands at Rockridge Stud for an advertised fee of $7,500.
The second OwnerView Thoroughbred Owners Conference will be held at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., in January 2016.
OwnerView, an industry-sponsored website and information resource designed to assist current and prospective Thoroughbred owners, will hold the event during the week leading up to the Eclipse Awards dinner, which is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016.
Grade 1 winner Take Charge Indy’s first foal at stud arrived Monday at Royal Thoroughbreds in Freedom, N.Y. when Spring Elusion produced a dark bay or brown filly.
The filly was bred by Danzel Brendemuehl and Sandra Lombardo. She is the second foal out of the winning daughter of Elusive Quality.
“She is an attractive filly, very correct with a deep girth, and weighing in at 120 pounds,” Brendemuehl said. “We are delighted with her.”
The Michigan Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will host its annual online stallion season auction on Jan 26-27.
The auction, one of the key yearly fundraisers for the breeding organization, features more than 50 stallions from 11 states, with additional entries being accepted until the beginning of the sale.
New York-bred millionaire and Travers Stakes winner Thunder Rumble died on Jan. 6 following complications from an episode of colic at Old Friends at Cabin Creek: The Bobby Frankel Division in Greenfield Center, N.Y. The son of Thunder Puddles was 26.
Ken and Sarah Ramsey led all single-entity North American breeders by earnings for a second consecutive year in 2014, finishing with 264 wins from 1,771 starts for a combined $10,412,411.
Based in Nicholasville, Ky., the Ramseys have continued to benefit from the success of their homebred stallion, turf champion Kitten’s Joy, who has sired many of the farm’s prominent runners. Among the top Ramsey-homebreds in 2014 sired by Kitten’s Joy were Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Bobby’s Kitten, Grade 1 winners Stephanie’s Kitten and Real Solution, and Grade 1-placed Big Blue Kitten.
