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DRF Past Performances
Stakes winner Make Music for Me and winner World Renowned, both retired this year, will stand their first seasons at Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms in Hemet, Calif. Stud fees for both horses will be announced at a later date.
Indiana Stallion Station of Anderson, Ind., will host a stallion show and open house on Saturday, Oct. 12, beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern.
The farm’s roster is highlighted by Domestic Dispute, currently the third leading sire in Indiana.
Graded stakes winners Mustanfar and Ventana, along with Dr. Large, Heat Summer, Quarter Given, and Storm Account, comprise the rest of the Thoroughbred roster. The farm also stands Quarter Horse stallions Real Visions and Story’s Black Beauty.
Thomas Haley Asbury, owner of Hedgewood Farm in Lexington, Ky. died Sept. 29 at age 86.
A Lexington native, Asbury was brought into the horse business at age 15 through his local 4-H program, and he eventually became a partner in Hedgewood Farm with his father, Charles Augustine Asbury. His son, Carson Asbury, later became a partner in the farm, making it a third-generation operation.
Alternation, who rose to prominence last year when he won five stakes including the Grade 2, $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap, has been retired and will stand at the Pin Oak Stud operation of his breeder and owner, Josephine Abercrombie.
A fee has not yet been set, according to Clifford Barry, general manager of Pin Oak.
Darley’s American breeding operation will auction off seasons to three of its stallions, selling online without reserve. The Lexington, Ky.-based wing of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Darley operation, based at Jonabell Farm, will offer one season each to Lonhro, Medaglia d’Oro, and Street Sense through standard “stands and nurses” terms.
Grade 1 winner Data Link has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career in 2014 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.
The 5-year-old son of War Front finishes his career with eight wins from 18 races for earnings of $831,335. Four of those wins came in graded stakes company, highlighted by the Grade 1 Makers 46 Mile at Keeneland Race Course in 2012. Data Link, who was trained by Shug McGaughey, also set a course record on the Monmouth Park turf at 1 1/8 miles, winning the Grade 2 Monmouth Stakes in the same year.
A.P. Indy’s son Pulpit has developed quite a reputation as a sire of sires over the past few years, primarily through the exploits of his son Tapit, who has soared near the top of both racetrack and commercial sire lists.
One great son does not a sire of sires make, but Pulpit has several other successful sons at stud, led by Sky Mesa, who enjoyed another successful weekend last week, when the 3-year-old filly Sky Girl won the Grade 3 Dogwood Stakes and the 2-year-old filly Aibhilin captured the Selima Stakes.
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Wrote and multiple graded stakes winner Duke of Mischief will stand the 2014 breeding season at Northwest Stud near Ocala, Fla. Stud fees for both will be announced at a later date.
Irish-bred Wrote, a 4-year-old son of High Chaparral, retires with three wins from 11 starts for earnings of $815,943. Group 2 placed as a juvenile in Ireland, he successfully invaded the U.S. to capture the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Churchill Downs. He was multiple Group 2 placed the following season, including a third in the U.A.E. Derby.