The late Storm Cat had plenty of graded stakes winners during his stallion career—110, in fact—but Stray Cat’s rallying effort to win by a nose on Sunday in the Grade 3 Red Cell Remington Park Distance Challenge Stakes gave the legendary sire a new milestone: his first graded stakes winner in the Quarter Horse realm.

Conor Foley's Oracle Bloodstock, based in Lexington, Ky., will manage all bloodstock and racing operations for Donegal Racing, the partnership's president, Jerry Crawford, has announced.

“We are thrilled to have Oracle and Conor on our team,” Crawford said. “Conor is experienced, smart and passionate about helping us continue Donegal’s success."

There was a moment several years ago when it would have looked smart to sell Lady Liberty.

The mare descended from an illustrious family tree that features such names as Ruffian and Private Terms. But her branch of the family had not produced a major runner since her dam, Mesabi Maiden, won the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in 1996.

Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Doctor Dino was represented by his first winner May 9, as his daughters Virimoon and Monlora De Luna finished one-two in a maiden race at Tarbes Racecourse in France.

Virimoon bested Monlora De Luna by a neck to earn the victory, covering 1,100 meters (about 5 1/2 furlongs) in 1:11.11 over a turf course rated soft. The 2-year-old filly, out of the Titus Livius mare Tymoon, was making her first career start. She is the second winner from as many to race out of her dam.

In addition to the $1,414,800 winner’s share of the Kentucky Derby purse for Orb’s victory, owner/breeders Stuart Janney and Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps also will receive a $50,000 bonus from the Kentucky Breeders’ Incentive Fund.

The male line of the immortal Northern Dancer has dominated international breeding for more than three decades, but the distribution of winners by sire line of the first six Northern Hemisphere classics of 2013 has been more even than in recent years.

The principal rival abroad, however, has not been Mr. Prospector, Northern Dancer’s principal challenger for global dominance in recent years, but the resurgent male line of Hail to Reason, and in America, the rapidly rising, almost wholly American line of A.P. Indy accounted for both May classics.

It’s the stuff of nightmares for any trainer: A horse grabs a bite of poppy-seed bagel, a batch of bedding straw contains a little jimsonweed, or a new feed supplement turns out to be loaded with caffeine even though that’s not on the label, and the trainer ends up with a positive drug test.

Joy Gilbert photo, courtesy Spendthrift FarmMalibu Moon

International racing and breeding operation Coolmore has privately purchased three-time Australian Group 1 winner Sea Siren and will add her to its broodmare band, Racing Post reports.

Lethal Leta, a stakes winner, graded stakes producer, and member of the Idaho Racing Hall of Fame, was euthanized May 7 due to foaling complications.

The 22-year-old Synastry mare was the dam of three winners from five to race, led by multiple graded stakes winner Lethal Heat and stakes winner Prevalent.

After a racing career that included four stakes wins and earnings of $655,988, Lethal Heat became her dam’s most expensive offspring, bringing $425,000 as a broodmare prospect at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale.