Cindy Evans Photography/courtesy Our Mims Retirement HavenLotka
Lotka, a Grade 1 winner on the racetrack and a prolific broodmare, died Sept. 10 at Our Mims Retirement Haven in Paris, Ky., at age 30. The Danzig mare had been a resident at the facility, operated by Jeanne Mirabito, since 2008.
Prospective, a multiple graded stakes winner last year, has been retired from racing. Stud plans are pending.
The 4-year-old Malibu Moon colt concludes his career with seven wins from 17 starts for earnings of $719,130. He captured the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby and Grade 3 Ohio Derby last year. He also won the Grade 3 Grey Stakes on the synthetic surface at Woodbine as a juvenile, and won or placed in four other stakes for his career.
Grade 1 winner El Corredor will relocate to stand the 2014 breeding season at The Stallion Station at Copper Crowne in Opelousas, La. His fee will be $3,500 if paid by Nov. 15. 2014, or $4,000 when the foal stands and nurses.
The 16-year-old Mr. Greeley horse, who began his career at Hill 'n' Dale Farm near Lexington, Ky., in 2002, stood the 2013 season at Questroyal North in Stillwater, N.Y.
When the bay Malibu Moon colt walked into Shug McGaughey’s shed row last year, the Hall of Fame trainer already had a blueprint of sorts to follow as he shaped the Phipps Stable and Stuart Janney homebred, named Orb, into a racehorse who would ultimately bring McGaughey his first Kentucky Derby win.
During the 2011 racing season, it seemed that practically every good horse in Europe was by Galileo out of a Danehill mare. The great Frankel (Galileo–Kind, by Danehill) dominated his competition, but Roderic O’Connor (Galileo–Secret Garden, by Danehill) and Golden Lilac (Galileo–Grey Lilas, by Danehill) both won classics, and later that season, Maybe (Galileo–Sumora, by Danehill) earned highweight Irish 2-year-old filly honors.
Reddam Racing LLC, Ocala Stud, and Morton Fink earned top honors as the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) held its annual National Awards Dinner Friday, Sept. 6, at the Fasig-Tipton facility in Lexington, Ky.
J. Paul and Zillah Reddam's Reddam Racing earned the National Owner of the Year award; J. Michael O'Farrell's Ocala Stud was named National Breeder of the Year; and Fink, who campaigns reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan, was honored as National Small Breeder of the Year.
Kentucky Derby winner and champion Street Sense, who has sired two Grade 1 winners this season, will return to Darley's Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky., after standing the 2013 season at the operation's Japanese location. A stud fee will be announced at a later date.
Less than two months after siring his first career winner, in Korea, multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire Cowboy Cal was represented by his first U.S. winner, as Tachi scored a solid maiden win in his second career outing Aug. 27 at Indiana Downs.
