Helissio, European Horse of the Year and winner of the 1996 Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, died Oct. 8 of a suspected heart attack, Racing Post reports. He was 20 years old.
The son of Fairy King last stood at Scarvagh House Stud in Northern Ireland. Last week, the farm lost another stallion, Exit to Nowhere.
Valid Expectations, the all-time leading sire in Texas who is now 20, has been retired from commercial stud duty, confirmed Danny Shifflett, general manager of Lane’s End Texas. Shifflett said the horse arrived Tuesday at Mt. Brilliant Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he will reside as the sole property of Greg Goodman.
Grade 1 winner Liaison has been retired and, as previously announced, will begin his stud career in 2014 at B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. He will stand for $10,000, stands and nurses, while participating in the farm’s ‘Share The Upside’ program.
The 4-year-old Indian Charlie colt, conditioned by Bob Baffert for owners Arnold and Ellen Zetcher, finished sixth in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes on Sept. 28 at Santa Anita Park in his career finale.
David Greathouse, a longtime breeder and consignor in central Kentucky and an integral member of both his family’s Glencrest Farm and the Four Star Sales operation, died on Tuesday following a battle with cancer. He was 63.
Multiple graded stakes winner Chatain will relocate to continue his stud career at Whispering Oaks Farm-Louisiana Stallion Station North in Carencro, La., as the property of a partnership.
The 10-year-old Forest Wildcat horse most recently stood at Holly Hill Farm in Benton, La. His 2014 fee at Whispering Oaks will be $1,500, payable when the foal stands and nurses.
Champion Hansen has been sold to continue his stud career in South Korea, becoming the latest stallion exported to that country’s burgeoning racing and breeding industry.
Hansen, a 4-year-old son of Tapit, began his stud career this season at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky. The horse’s former co-owner, breeder, and namesake Dr. Kendall Hansen confirmed the sale to the Blood-Horse on Oct. 8
The Jockey Club and the Organizacion Sudamericana de Fomento del Sangre Pira de Carrera (O.S.A.F.), which promotes Thoroughbred breeding and racing in nine South American countries, will host a Pan American Conference in New York City from June 3-6, 2015.
Epsom Derby winner and sire North Light will relocate to stand at Lanwades Stud near Newmarket, England, for 2014.
The 12-year-old Irish-bred son of Danehill most recently stood at Adena Springs’ facility in Aurora, Ontario. His 2014 fee at Lanwades will be 6,000 pounds, or about $9,640 in U.S. funds.
North Light won three times and finished second three times in seven career starts, earning $1,989,577. In addition to winning the Epsom Derby in 2004, he also was runner-up in the Irish Derby.
In 2007, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum changed the landscape of the American breeding industry, and, not incidentally, the trajectory of his own global racing and breeding operation. During that racing season, Sheikh Mohammed purchased three of the four best American 3-year-olds of the year – Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, Grade 1 King’s Bishop winner and Derby runner-up Hard Spun, and Grade 1 Haskell Invitational winner Any Given Saturday – and retired all three to stand at his Darley division at Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., at the end of the year.
