Pleasantly Perfect, a multiple Grade/Group 1 winner, has been purchased by Turkish-based owner and breeder Levent Sarikaya, and will stand at the Turkish National Stud in 2015, BloodHorse reports.
The 16-year-old son of Pleasant Colony was originally slated to relocate to Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., for 2015 after previously standing at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky. Pleasantly Perfect stood for an advertised fee of $5,000 in 2014.
Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, N.Y. has released its advertised stud fees for the 2015 breeding season, with no changes among its returning roster.
Leading New York stallion Freud will once again command the farm’s highest stud fee. The 16-year-old son of Storm Cat will stand for $10,000 during the upcoming breeding season.
New to the Sequel Stallions roster is Grade 1 winner Alpha. The 5-year-old son of Bernardini will stand for $8,500 in his debut season at stud.
Champion Zenyatta's weanling filly by popular young commercial sire War Front was euthanized on Oct. 28 following a paddock accident.
The filly, who was born April 20, resided at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., where Zenyatta has been boarded since her retirement in late 2010 for owners Jerry and Ann Moss.
Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky. has revealed the advertised fees for its 2015 stallion roster.
Leading the group will be Creative Cause, who will stand for $15,000. The 5-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway’s first foals are weanlings of 2014.
New to Airdrie Stud for 2015 is Grade 2 winner Cairo Prince, a 3-year-old Pioneerof the Nile colt, who will stand his debut season for $10,000.
Given the choice between starting Coolmore colorbearer The Great War in either the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile or the Juvenile Turf, the partnership selected the former. It’s by far the taller order for the colt, a minor stakes winner in Europe who has raced exclusively on turf and never beyond 6 1/2 furlongs. Still, The Great War has a dirt-leaning pedigree with enough stamina influences to make him an intriguing longshot in a Juvenile field that lost favored American Pharoah to lameness on Tuesday, leaving a wide-open group of colts with some major distance questions.
The field for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies includes three entrants – Angela Renee, Cristina’s Journey, and Puca – who already have won at the race distance of 1 1/16 miles. Angela Renee and Cristina’s Journey’s wins came at the graded stakes level, and the former’s score in the Grade 1 Chandelier at Santa Anita on Sept. 27 will likely make her the favorite in the Juvenile Fillies. What’s more, that filly’s bloodlines make her even more formidable in the race that will likely determine year-end divisional championship honors.
Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farm has shone at the Breeders’ Cup, capturing four races with homebreds. The operation has an excellent chance to add another victory with Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf entrant Commemorative. The Zamindar colt is from the family of several high-class turf routers, including two of Juddmonte’s champions.
Given European shippers’ past history of dominance in Breeders’ Cup races contested on turf, those handicapping Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies turf must give primary consideration to the quartet of 2-year-old fillies making the trip across the pond to the Santa Anita starting gate. Several members of the group have already won or placed in stakes overseas, and sport pedigrees highly slanted toward turf success.
Grade 3-placed stakes winner Lakerville has been retired from racing and will stand at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., for a private fee.
The 6-year-old son of Unusual Heat won five of 11 starts during his on-track career, finishing worse than second only twice, for earnings of $318,910. He won the Clocker’s Corner Stakes in January, and later finished second in the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes.
Barry Abrams trained Lakerville and co-owned the horse with Madeline Auerbach.
