I’ll Raise You One, a pensioned Ohio stallion and Grade 3-placed winner, was euthanized due to the infirmities of old age at Fair Winds Farm in Waynesville, Ohio. He was 29 years old.
Bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm Venture II, the son of Far North was bought by owner Al Corrado for $16,000 at the 1985 Keeneland September yearling sale. After his first start, trainer James Morgan described I’ll Raise You One as “the fastest horse I ever trained.”
No Fruit Degroote’s 1 1/2-length victory in a maiden special weight race on Saturday at Delaware Park made him the first winner for his sire, Grade 1 winner In Summation.
This year’s Preakness Stakes brought a sense of déjà vu to horse-racing fans when they witnessed the Hall of Fame trainer-jockey combination of D. Wayne Lukas and Gary Stevens return to the winner’s circle in a classic.
Lukas and Stevens first teamed up for classic glory in the 1988 Kentucky Derby with the late, great filly Winning Colors. After an estrangement during the early 1990s, they joined forces again in 1995 with a Michael Tabor-owned colt who would fly under the radar in the week leading up to the Kentucky Derby.
El Padrino, a Grade 2 winner and leading contender on last year’s Kentucky Derby trail, will enter stud in 2014 at the Pennsylvania division of Northview Stallion Station in Peach Bottom, Pa.
The 4-year-old son of Pulpit first drew attention as a juvenile, breaking his maiden in his second start by 12 3/4 lengths at Belmont Park. He followed up with a third-place finish in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct, and then solidified his Derby résumé in February 2012 with a win in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Multiple graded-placed stakes winner A. U. Miner will begin his stallion career in 2014 at Six Oak Stable in Terre Haute, Ind., BloodHorse reports.
The 8-year-old Mineshaft horse was a stalwart of the handicap division’s long-distance platoon during his five-year racing career, winning the 2010 Greenwood Cup at Philadelphia Park, now known as Parx Racing, where he equaled the track record for a mile and a half.
Grade 1 winner and sire Unaccounted For died Wednesday in Turkey after suffering from ethmoid hematoma, an upper respiratory tract anomaly found in horses. The son of Private Account, who had stood abroad since 2002, was 22.
Unaccounted For, trained by Scotty Schulhofer, enjoyed his best season as a 4-year-old in 1995, winning the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap, finishing second to champion Cigar in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, and running third behind that rival in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
Freshman congressman Andy Barr (R-Lexington) of Kentucky introduced a bill on May 24 in the U.S. House of Representatives to make permanent for all racehorses the 3-year depreciation schedule, which is subject to expire at the end of the year.
The Race Horse Cost Recovery Act (HR-2212) would extend the current policy, enacted by the 2008 Farm Bill, which allows taxpayers to recover the cost of property over its approximate economic life, in this case a horse’s racing career, through tax write-offs.
WinStar Farm has appointed Darren Fox as stallion seasons director for its 22-stallion facility in Versailles, Ky.
Fox previously worked on the stallion nominations team at Darley at Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for four years. He replaces Gerry Duffy at WinStar, who was recently hired as general manager of Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland.
