William H. Welch, retired Executive Director of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund, died May 14 at his home in Geneseo, N.Y. He was 72.
Welch, born in Rochester, N.Y., was instrumental in promoting New York’s original Thoroughbred Fund legislation while working for the Breeders Service Bureau of the State Racing Commission. Welch retired as Executive Director—formerly called “Executive Administrator”—of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund.
Authorized, Europe’s champion 3-year-old colt of 2007, will shuttle to Chile to stand at Haras Cordilliera, Racing Post reports.
The 9-year-old son of Montjeu stands the Northern Hemisphere season at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England, for an advertised fee of $10,646 (7,000 British pounds).
Authorized’s runners are led by Group 3 winners Sugar Boy and Rehn’s Nest and Turkish champion Toruk Macto. The deal to shuttle was brokered by McKeever Bloodstock.
While the Triple Crown hopes of Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who represents decades of involvement in the racing industry for the Phipps and Janney families, were dashed in the Preakness Stakes, another historic name landed in the winner's circle Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
Oxbow’s upset victory in the Preakness Stakes was a triumph for a trio of established names in the racing industry—trainer D. Wayne Lukas, jockey Gary Stevens, and owner Calumet Farm—but it was also the first classic win for a fairly new entity, Richard Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables.
Multiple Grade 1 winner and freshman sire Einstein was represented by his first winner on Saturday when E Equalsmcsquared won a maiden claiming race at Lone Star Park.
The dark bay or brown filly, out of stakes-placed winning Conquistador Cielo mare Prairie Spring, drew away to win by 7 ¾ lengths, covering 4 1/2 furlongs in :53.51 seconds in her second career start.
Grade 3 winner Winslow Homer has been retired with a suspensory injury, owner Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farm announced Saturday.
"Unfortunately, we had to retire Winslow Homer," Porter wrote on the farm's Facebook page. "He had another suspensory injury and I didn’t want to go on with him since it looks like we can’t get past this suspensory problem. He was one of my favorites but the time had come to retire him. We have several people that are interested in him as a stallion."
Champion sprinter Benny the Bull was represented by his first winner May 11, when Joe Pike won his career debut at Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico.
The colt, out of the winning Dove Hunt mare Allofeverything, won by 3 1/2 lengths and covered two furlongs in :22.47.
Kentucky Derby winner Orb arrived at Pimlico Race Course with his sights set on joining an exclusive fraternity of Triple Crown winners raised at historic Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.
Regardless of the Preakness outcome, Claiborne, in partnership with some of its most prominent and loyal clients, already has put its stamp on this Triple Crown season, marking yet another successful chapter in the operation’s storied history.
A field of nine, headed by Kentucky Derby winner Orb, will contest the Preakness Stakes, second leg of the Triple Crown, Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
Below is a closer look at the individual pedigrees and backgrounds of this year's entrants, in post position order.
