LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Elaine Klein, a prominent owner and breeder in Kentucky who raced horses in partnership with her husband, Bert, and son, Richard, died Wednesday at her home in Buckner, Ky., after a battle with cancer. She was 80.

A native of Nashville, Tenn., Klein was an accomplished equestrienne, and showed three-gaited American Saddlebreds and road ponies, winning World’s Amateur and National titles in the early 1980s at such venues as Madison Square Garden. But for much of the last 30 years, her involvement with horses extended to breeding and racing Thoroughbreds.

Champion and standout Australian commercial sire Fastnet Rock was represented by his first winner in the Northern Hemisphere on Monday, as his daughter Oriel broke her maiden at Windsor in England.

Grade 2 winner Flashpoint has been purchased by Spendthrift Farm and will make his stallion debut in 2014 at Le Mesa Stallions in Carencro, La.

The 5-year-old son of Pomeroy will be the first of Spendthrift’s Louisiana stallions to be included in the farm’s “Share The Upside” program. Under the program, breeders can earn a lifetime breeding right to Flashpoint by sending a mare to the stallion in his first and second seasons, producing a live foal both times, and paying the stud fee, among other conditions.

Grade 2 winner and Louisiana freshman sire Behindatthebar was represented by his first winner on July 27, as Miss Monroe broke through with a victory in her third career start at Louisiana Downs.

Equine veterinarian and health care entrepreneur Dr. Steven Allday has been elected to the board of Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement group based out of Georgetown, Ky.

“Dr. Allday has already been a valuable contributor to the health and welfare of our horses, and I know he will be a tremendous asset to the board,” said Michael Blowen, who founded Old Friends in 2002. The organization now cares for more than 120 horses, with farms in Georgetown, Ky., and Greenfield Center, N.Y.

Coolmore’s Grade/Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey, recovering from both colic surgery and surgery to fuse a fractured pastern, has begun eating some grass, the Irish-based breeding operation reported Tuesday.

In a pair of tweets Tuesday morning, Coolmore said: “St Nicholas Abbey remains in a comfortable condition at Fethard Equine Hospital. The surgeons and veterinary team are happy with his progress. He is in good form after another good night and along with receiving intravenous nutrition he is eating small amounts of freshly cut grass.”

The 3-year-old male division existed in a state of uncertainty during the nearly two-month span between Palace Malice’s upset win in the Belmont Stakes and last weekend’s top-level stakes at Saratoga Race Course and Monmouth Park.

Coolmore stallion Scat Daddy will not stand the Southern Hemisphere season after suffering from a bout of dehydration during the first leg of his journey to Argentina, where he was due to stand the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Haras La Quebrada in Buenos Aires.

Grade 1 winner Take Charge Indy has been retired after suffering a left-front condylar fracture during the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park, and will stand the 2014 breeding season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.

Don Myers Sr., founder of prominent Indiana Thoroughbred operation Swifty Farms, died on June 25 at the age of 92.

A native of Seymour, Ind., Myers founded Swifty Oil Company in 1963, and expanded from an initial base of seven gas stations to 181 stations and convenience stores in several different states.