Slew City Slew, a multiple Grade 1 winner and earner of more than $1.1 million on the racetrack and a productive sire at Airdrie Stud responsible for multiple Grade 1 winner Lava Man, among others, died Thursday at the Midway, Ky., farm due to the infirmities of old age. He was 29.
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Dalakhani, winner of the Cartier Award as European Horse of the Year in 2003 and a sire of classic winners in Europe and Breeders’ Cup winners in the U.S., will shuttle to Cornerstone Stud in Angaston, South Australia, for the 2013 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
Prominent Florida stallion Montbrook, sire of champion sprinter Big Drama, has been pensioned from stud duty due to declining fertility.
The 23-year-old Buckaroo horse will live out his retirement at J. Michael O'Farrell Jr.'s Ocala Stud. Montbrook, the state's leading sire in 2002, 2003, 2008, and 2009, was born, raised, and stood his entire stud career at the Ocala, Fla., facility.
Multiple Grade 1 winner and prominent Japanese sire Brian's Time was euthanized April 4 after fracturing his leg in a paddock accident at Arrow Stud on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. The Roberto horse, who along with his fellow U.S.-bred contemporary Sunday Silence exerted a major influence on the development of the Japanese bloodstock industry, was 28.
Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom will stand the Northern Hemisphere breeding season at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., after the international breeding operation bought an interest in the horse.
Wed, 04/03/2013 - 17:05
The Maryland Horse Breeders Association and the Maryland Racing Media Association have announced the 12-horse inaugural class for the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame.
The inaugural class includes:
• Cigar, Horse of the Year in 1995 and 1996, who won a then-record 16 consecutive races.
• Safely Kept, champion sprinter of 1989.
• Broad Brush, winner of the 1987 Santa Anita Handicap and Suburban Handicap, leading sire of 1994.
• Challedon, Horse of the Year in 1939 and 1940.
• Gallorette, Champion handicap mare in 1946.
Twilight Ridge, winner of 1985 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, died April 2 at owner Mike Rutherford's Manchester Farm near Lexington, Ky. The daughter of Cox's Ridge was 30.
"Twilight Ridge ... was 30 years old and in excellent health until the last month," Manchester Farm stated in a release. "She was a wonderful producer as well as a great race mare. ... Twilight Ridge will be missed at Manchester Farm as she was a very special lady, always having the sweetest disposition with other horses and people. Twilight Ridge will be buried at her home, Manchester Farm."
Vinery Farm in Lexington, Ky., the anchor property of the international racing and breeding operation, has been listed for sale with a price tag of $13,970,000.
The 440-acre farm was one of four U.S. properties under the Vinery banner, owned by Tom Simon, who announced his intention to sell the majority of the Vinery operation in August 2012. At the time of the announcement, Vinery had properties in Kentucky, Florida, New York, and Australia. The Australian property is owned by a partnership, and Simon has said that the farm will not be sold.
Group 1 winner Intense Focus was represented by his first winner on April 1 when his daughter Intense Feeling won at Warwick Racecourse in Warwick, England.
It was the third career start for the 2-year-old filly, who made virtually all of the pace and handily defeated stablemate Gin Time by two lengths. She covered five furlongs in 1:05.61 over turf rated good to soft.
Intense Feeling is the fifth winner out of the unraced Fairy King mare Titania, a half-sister to stakes placed Twilight Patrol.