Wasted Tears, the multiple Grade 2 winner who foaled a colt by Malibu Moon in January, is back in foal to the same stallion, said her owner, Bart Evans. The colt was the first foal for Wasted Tears, who is based at Stonehaven in Versailles, Ky.
“She’s basking in motherhood,” said Evans, who also bred and trained Wasted Tears.
Thoroughbred Placement Resources, Inc. (TPR) has received a Rescuing Racers Initiative Grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
TPR, based out of Maryland, is a 501(c)(3) charity that transitions and retrains racehorses for other disciplines and strives to improve the reputation of the Thoroughbred by providing education and support.
Belmont’s Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes brought the 3-year-old filly division back to center stage last weekend, and Close Hatches’ dominant 7 1/4-length win over heavily favored Dreaming of Julia ensured that the overall pecking order in the upper rungs of the division would remain unsettled heading into the midsummer racing schedule.
Palace Episode, a Group 1 winner and freshman sire, had his first winner on Sunday when Ponthieu broke his maiden by three lengths at Aix le Bains in France.
Ponthieu, a 2-year-old colt, completed the 1,200-meter (about six-furlong) race in 1:12.50 over turf labeled as soft to win in his seventh start. Bred in France by Haras de Beauvoir, Ponthieu is out of the Brief Truce mare Piste Sauvage.
Owning and breeding Thoroughbreds is supposed to be fun. If it wasn’t, Janis Whitham wouldn’t be doing it.
It’s fun to watch a horse you own and bred, out of a homebred mare at that, break his maiden at Churchill Downs on the undercard of the Stephen Foster Handicap, as Lent did for Whitham in the evening’s fourth race.
Not much has changed about Peppers Pride from her racing days to her current career as a broodmare.
“She’s really a classy mare to be around,” said Frank Taylor, vice president of boarding operations at his family’s Taylor Made Farm, the Nicholasville, Ky., facility where the 10-year-old daughter of Desert God resides. “She just does everything right.”
Raise the Hoof’s maiden victory on June 21 at Betfair Hollywood Park made him the first winner sired by Claiborne Farm stallion Parading.
The 2-year-old gelding bested a field of maiden claimers by 2 ½ lengths, completing the 4 ½ furlong race in :52.75 over Hollywood's synthetic Cushion Track surface. He crossed the finish as the even-money favorite in the seven-horse field.
Grade 1 winner Mr. Sidney was represented by his first winner on Friday, when Swinging Song held on to win by a short neck in a conditions race at Maisons-Laffitte.
The 2-year-old filly completed the 1,200-meter (about six-furlong) race in 1:14.50 over turf labeled as heavy. Homebred in England by Alain Louis-Dreyfus and trained by Mikel Delzangles, Swinging Song is the first foal out of the winning Rossini mare Singing Machine.
Eliza Park, one of Australia’s top breeding operations and the residence of Black Caviar’s sire Bel Esprit, has been sold to Hong Kong-based investors Sun International Group, English and Australian media outlets report.
Based in Eastern Australia with properties in Victoria and Queensland, the operation will move forward known as Eliza Park International. Former owner Lee Fleming put the business up for sale in March.
