Awesome Patriot, a Grade 3-placed stakes-winning half brother to 2013 Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow, will shuttle to Haras Santa Sara in Santiago, Chile, for the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
The 6-year-old son of Awesome Again recently completed his first season at stud at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he stood for an advertised fee of $3,500. His Southern Hemisphere fee has yet to be determined.
Champion Kodiak Kowboy will shuttle to Haras Bage do Sul in Brazil for the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
The 9-year-old son of Posse stands the Northern Hemisphere season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky. for an advertised fee of $5,000. His first foals are 3-year-olds of this year, led by multiple stakes winner Cool Cowboy, and stakes-placed runners Tupancy Links, Sidearm, and Kowboy Boots.
Grade 1 winner Court Vision will shuttle to Haras Las Araucarias in Chile for the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
The 9-year-old son of Gulch stands the Northern Hemisphere season as property of Spendthrift Farm at Park Stud in Orangeville, Ontario for an advertised fee of $10,000. His Southern Hemisphere fee is yet to be determined.
Court Vision has stood his first three seasons in Ontario, and he is the first stallion to be offered to Canadian breeders through Spendthrift’s Share the Upside program. His first foals are yearlings of 2014.
In June 1981, Robert “Shel” Evans was in the box seats at Belmont Park watching dual classic winner Pleasant Colony, bred and raced by his father Thomas Mellon Evans’s Buckland Farm, attempt to become the 12th horse to sweep the Triple Crown. It was not to be, as Pleasant Colony finished third to Summing in the Belmont Stakes.
CINCINNATI – Silver Tongued will be looking for his second consecutive win when he starts in the $50,000 Sydney Gendelman Memorial Handicap on Sunday at Belterra Park. Trained by Jeff Greenhill, Silver Tongued won the allowance prep for the Gendelman on June 1 by 3 3/4 lengths when sent off as the 7-5 favorite. The 4-year-old gelding was kept just off the early pace in the one-mile prep before drawing off in the stretch. There is an abundance of early speed in the field of 10 Ohio-registered older horses going 1 1/16 miles, and that off-the-pace style should suit him well.
Grade 1 winner Bluegrass Cat will stand the upcoming Southern Hemisphere season at Norman Fox’s Haras Lacala in Uruguay.
The superbly-bred 11-year-old son of Storm Cat currently stands at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., for an advertised fee of $7,500. He has sired five crops of racing age, led by Grade 2 winners Kathmanblu and Teeth of the Dog and Grade 3 winners Sabercat, Go Blue or Go Home, and Blue Laser. Bluegrass Cat sits atop the current New York sire list with over $1.9 million in progeny earnings. He also was leading New York general sire in 2013.
Commendable, winner of the 2000 Belmont Stakes, died in Korea on April 10 due to complications from colic.
The website Horse Racing in Korea reports that the 17-year-old son of Gone West suffered a “strangulation of the small intestine,” leading to his death. He had been standing at Korea Racing Authority’s Jangsu Stud Farm in the Jeolla province.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Goldencents will stand at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., following his retirement at the end of his 4-year-old campaign.
The son of young Spendthrift sire Into Mischief will debut during the 2015 breeding season for an advertised fee of $12,500 stands and nurses, and $15,000 through Spendthrift’s Share the Upside program on a limited basis.
Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) has awarded grants totaling $512,105 to 74 Thoroughbred industry-related non-profits that work to uphold TCA’s mission to provide a better life for Thoroughbreds, during and after their racing careers by supporting retirement, rescue and research and by helping the people who work with them.
TCA distributes grants to several categories of Thoroughbred industry-related nonprofits including rescue, rehabilitation and adoption organizations; backstretch and farm employee programs; therapeutic riding programs; and research organizations.
