Fri, 11/22/2013 - 14:51

Sparkman: Johannesburg a true internationalist

Barbara D. Livingston
Trinniberg was 13-1 when he won the 2012 Breeders' Cup Sprint, but figures to be an even bigger price this year.

For most of the racing world, the most memorable moment of the 2001 Breeders’ Cup at Belmont Park in the darkest days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was Tiznow’s game victory in the Classic over Sakhee that incited Tom Durkin’s “Tiznow for America” race call. For the author, though, the most memorable moment occurred a bit earlier on the program.

Fri, 11/22/2013 - 12:43

Lentenor, full brother to Barbaro, moving to Indiana

Barbara D. Livingston
Lentenor, a full brother to Barbaro, is one of the Lael Stable horses now in the Delacour barn.

Lentenor, a stakes-winning full brother to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, will relocate to stand the 2014 breeding season at the Indiana Stallion Station in Anderson, Ind., for an advertised fee of $2,000 stands and nurses.

The 6-year-old Dynaformer horse stood his first season at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he covered six mares, according to statistics released in The Jockey Club's Report of Mares Bred.

Wed, 11/20/2013 - 18:17

Turbo Compressor to stand at Northwest Stud

Grade 1 winner Turbo Compressor will join the stallion roster at Northwest Stud in Ocala, Fla., for an advertised fee of $3,500.

Wed, 11/20/2013 - 15:53

Archwarrior, Rattlesnake Bridge, Doctor Chit retired to Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds

Archwarrior, a highly-touted juvenile of 2012, as well as stakes winners Rattlesnake Bridge and Doctor Chit have been retired from racing and will stand their inaugural seasons at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in Ocala, Fla.

Wed, 11/20/2013 - 12:14

Champion Royal Delta retired, will be bred to Galileo

Barbara D. Livingston
Champion Royal Delta, two-time winner of the Breeders' Cup Distaff, has been retired from racing.

Royal Delta, a 10-time graded stakes winner and two-time Eclipse Award champion, has been retired from racing, her connections announced Wednesday.

Later Wednesday, owner Benjamin Leon announced in a press release that Royal Delta would be bred to the European champion Galileo, who stands at Coolmore Stud in Ireland.

Royal Delta will soon begin a period of quarantine at Leon’s Besilu Farms in Ocala, Fla. She was shipped there on Tuesday from Payson Park, where she had been based since her fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 22:49

Grade 1 winner Power Broker to Hill ‘n’ Dale

Power Broker, a Grade 1 winner as a juvenile, has been retired and will stand the 2014 season at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky. The 3-year-old son of Pulpit will stand for an advertised fee of $10,000.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 16:49

Pleasant Acres adds Pollard’s Vision and three others to roster

Pollard’s Vision, sire of champion Blind Luck, is one of four stallions joining the stallion roster for the inaugural season at Joe and Helen Barbazon’s Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla.

Pollard’s Vision, French Group 1 winner Passion for Gold, graded stakes winner Anthony’s Cross, and stakes winner Beau Choix join previously-announced Grade/Group 1 winners Poseidon’s Warrior and Treasure Beach on the Pleasant Acres roster.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 15:57

Heavy Breathing’s initial stud fee set at $2,500

Heavy Breathing, a Grade 3-placed winner and a full brother to young New York sire Frost Giant, will stand his initial breeding season at Dutchess View Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y. for an advertised fee of $2,500.

Dutchess View announced in July that it would stand the 4-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 11:54

Corinthian to Pin Oak Lane in Pennsylvania

Grade 1 winner Corinthian will relocate to Pin Oak Lane in New Freedom, Pa., for an advertised fee of $4,000 with discounts for multiple mares.

The 10-year-old son of Pulpit previously stood at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky., where he began his stud career in 2008. He has sired three crops of racing age with six stakes winners, including Mariel N Kathy, Junebugred, Ten Thirty, Muppet Man, Hunt Crossing, and Corinthian’s Jewel.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 17:44

Giacomo, Hunters Bay among stallions at Heritage Stallions in Maryland

Veterinarian Brooke Bowman and Louis Merryman have formed a new stallion operation, Heritage Stallions, on property that was formerly part of the original Windfields Farm near Chesapeake City, Md.

The farm’s inaugural stallion roster will include Hunters Bay, Canada’s champion older male of 2012, who retires to stud after a career that featured six wins in 14 starts for earnings of $611,091. Homebred in Kentucky by Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs, the 6-year-old Ghostzapper horse won the Grade 3 Dominion Day Stakes and Eclipse Stakes during his championship season.