Grade 1 winner Jimmy Creed has been retired due to a minor sesamoidean ligament injury in his right front ankle, and will stand the 2014 breeding season at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. for an advertised fee of $12,500.
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Jake Delhomme, the retired NFL quarterback whose family races as Set-Hut Stables, was elected president of the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association during a meeting Saturday at Louisiana Downs. Delhomme was nominated by outgoing president Dexter Gary.
Discreet Dancer, a Grade 2-winning son of Discreet Cat, has been retired due to a tendon injury. Stud plans have not been announced.
The 4-year-old colt had been enjoying a solid campaign in 2013, winning the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap and finishing third in the Grade 1 Carter Handicap.
The racing headlines over the past weekend were dominated by a Saturday afternoon of excellence for Ken and Sarah Ramsey, the excitement of which has rarely been matched by the sport’s elite owner-breeders save for Triple Crown or Breeders’ Cup events.
Grade 2 winner Soldat has been retired from racing and will stand the 2014 breeding season at John Sykes’ Woodford Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Fla.
The 5-year-old son of War Front was campaigned during his racing career by a partnership led by Harvey Clarke and W. Craig Robertson III, and he was trained by Kiaran McLaughlin. A stud fee for Soldat will be announced at a later time.
Joy Gilbert photo/courtesy Ramsey FarmKitten's Joy
Although he is a son of Ramsey Farm flagship stallion Kitten’s Joy, Real Solution lacks the ‘Kitten’ moniker attached to many of the top runners carrying the operation’s red and white silks.
Dashing Blade, a three-time Group 1 winner and leading sire in Germany, was euthanized at age 26 due to neurological problems, Racing Post reports.
Bred in Great Britain by Littleton Stud, the son of Elegant Air was one of Europe’s top juveniles in 1989, winning the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes in England and the National Stakes in Ireland.
The gentle nature of the coppery chestnut stallion in the field at Gustav Schickedanz’s Schonberg Farm near Nobleton, Ontario, belies his background as one of the most celebrated runners of his generation.
“He’s a true gentleman,” farm manager Lauri Kenny says of Wando. “He’s a really old soul, a lovely horse.”
So gentle is Wando, in fact, that some days he behaves more like a family pet than a Thoroughbred stallion.