Jazil, winner of the 2006 Belmont Stakes, died Saturday from injuries sustained in a paddock accident at Shadwell Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he stood at stud. The Seeking the Gold horse was 11.
English classic winner Taghrooda has been retired from racing and will join the broodmare band of Sheikh Hamdan al-Maktoum, her owner and breeder, in 2015.
The 3-year-old Sea The Stars filly retires with 4 wins in 6 career starts for earnings of $2,404,603.
Pennsylvania stallion Offlee Wild, the sire of recent Grade 1 winner Bayern, has been sold to stand in Turkey.
The 14-year-old son of Wild Again previously stood at Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pa., advertised in 2014 for a fee of $4,000. He resided at the farm for three years, relocating to Pennsylvania for the 2012 breeding season after beginning his career at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky. The sale to Tevfik Celikoglu of Turkey was brokered by Jean-Pierre Deroubaix of FBA in France and Marie Yoshida of Winchester Farm, in Lexington, Ky.
E Dubai, sire of 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned, will relocate to Elite Thoroughbreds in Folsom, La., for the 2015 breeding season, standing for an advertised fee of $3,500.The 16-year-old son of Mr. Prospector previously stood at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md.
Grade 1 winner Strong Mandate will join the stallion roster at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., for the 2015 breeding season, with a fee to be announced at a later date.
The 3-year-old Tiznow colt won 2 of 8 starts and earned $529,566 in two seasons. Bred in Kentucky by G. Watts Humphrey Jr., Strong Mandate was purchased at the 2012 Keeneland September yearling sale for $200,000 by Robert Baker and William Mack, who campaigned the colt under the direction of trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
Coolmore Stud announced Saturday that this year’s English and Irish Derby winner Australia has been retired due to injury and will commence his stud career in 2015 alongside his sire Galileo at Coolmore’s farm in Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
Coolmore representative Kevin Buckley said on a British radio program that the 3-year-old colt developed an infection in his right-hind hoof this week while preparing for next weekend’s Qipco British Champion Day races at Ascot and that his training was suspended.
Near the end of the backstretch in the 1964 Kentucky Derby, jockey Bill Hartack extricated Northern Dancer from a trap set by Bill Shoemaker on favored Hill Rise and asked his colt to accelerate. The response was instantaneous, and Northern Dancer poached a four-length advantage on Hill Rise, even though Shoemaker desperately had asked the bigger colt for more run to keep Northern Dancer in a pocket.
The Loyalty Stakes on Sept. 13 at Belterra Park was a banner race for Kim and Lori Williams’s Fair Winds Farm, whose sire Mercer Mill filled the exacta with Mound and homebred runner-up Dayton Demo.
Mercer Mill also sired the seventh- and eighth-place finishers, and a runner by former Fair Winds stallion Habayeb finished fourth, meaning that the Waynesfield, Ohio, farm was represented by more than half the field in the stakes race for 2-year-old accredited Ohio-breds.
Grade 1 winner Bluegrass Cat will relocate to Donald and Karen Cohn’s Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, Calif., for the 2015 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $6,500.
The 11-year-old son of Storm Cat previously stood at Rockridge Stud in New York after beginning his stallion career at WinStar Farm in Kentucky. He is the current leader on New York’s general sire list for 2014 with $4,059,358 in progeny earnings. He was also New York’s leading general sire in 2013.
Canadian champion Hunters Bay has relocated to Joseph and Helen Barbazon’s Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., where he will stand the 2015 breeding season for an advertised fee of $5,000.
The 7-year-old son of Ghostzapper previously stood at Heritage Stallions in Maryland, where he made his debut at stud in 2014. He will remain property of Adena Springs at his new location.