Grade 1 winner Champ Pegasus has been retired from racing and will stand the 2014 breeding season at Legacy Ranch in Clements, Calif.
The 7-year-old son of Fusaichi Pegasus was a prominent member of the West Coast’s turf division during his racing career, with wins in the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch and the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap in 2010, and in the Grade 2 San Luis Obispo in 2011. He also finished second to Dangerous Midge in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs.
Blue Horse Charities, an organization funded by contributions from Fasig-Tipton horse auctions, announced Thursday that it has awarded grants totaling $119,700 to 30 non-profits that work to rehabilitate, retrain and adopt off-the-track Thoroughbreds.
Silvano, a globetrotting Grade/Group 1 winner during his racing career, finished the 2012-2013 Southern Hemisphere racing season as South Africa’s leading general sire.
The 17-year-old son of Lomitas displaced runner-up Jet Master, whose stranglehold on the top spot had lasted the previous six seasons. Jet Master died in 2011 after contracting West Nile Virus.
The first winner for Grade 2 winner and freshman sire Papa Clem came on Aug. 1 at the Sonoma County Fair, when Hirschy rallied to win a maiden special weight race by three-quarters of a length.
It felt, at first, like a kick in the gut for Taylor Made Farm and bloodstock agent Buzz Chace: A big client’s 2-year-old from Unbridled’s eagerly anticipated first crop had just sold for a world-record $1.4 million, only to be returned by the buyer.
The issue was a spot on the colt’s X-ray that buyer Hiroshi Fujita believed could be an ankle chip. Taylor Made, the colt’s consigning agent, thought the deal could be salvaged, but its client, Ernie Paragallo, didn’t hesitate. He took his colt back.
Points Offthebench’s game score in last Sunday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby at Del Mar gave trainer Tim Yakteen his first top-level stakes win and heralded the emergence of another high-caliber runner for California stallion Benchmark.
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Darley shuttle stallion Exceed And Excel has finished the 2012-13 season as Australia's leading general sire.
Calidoscopio, the winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Marathon whose final victory came in a dramatic running of the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap earlier this year, will stand his first season at stud at Haras La Quebrada in Argentina, Racing Post reports.
The 10-year-old son of Luhuk will return to his birthplace to stand at stud, having been foaled at the Buenos Aires-area farm in 2003. He became a staple in the long distance ranks of his native country, winning or finishing in the money in 21 stakes races, highlighted by a win in the Group 1 Republica Argentina in 2009.
Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby and 2013 Dubai World Cup, is in quarantine in Australia as he prepares for his debut season at Arrowfield Stud in New South Wales.
The 5-year-old son of Leroidesanimaux left for Australia on Sunday, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, after more than a month in quarantine in England, beginning June 20. He will spend another two weeks in quarantine on the outskirts of Sydney before arriving at Arrowfield Stud.
