Daily Racing Form is introducing a new weekly section dedicated to coverage of the breeding industry in each edition of the Sunday newspaper. The section will debut March 10 with coverage of the 2-year-olds in training sales season.
In addition, on Tuesday, March 12, a digital newsletter, “DRF Breeding Update,” will debut to a list of more than 20,000 owners, breeders, trainers, and engaged industry professionals within DRF’s digital database.
The European Commission has asked two agencies to assess the risks that phenylbutazone residues in horsemeat might pose to human health. The request comes as Europe is dealing with a growing scandal in which beef products have been found to contain horsemeat illegally and regulators have found bute in some horse carcasses intended for human consumption.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Caleb's Posse, who is standing his first season at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., was represented by his first four mares confirmed in foal this week.
Grade 2 winner Simmard, who was retired last August, will begin his stallion career at Anne Morgan and Tim Little’s Mill Creek Farm near Stillwater, N.Y. The 8-year-old Dixieland Band horse is standing for an introductory fee of $2,800 when the foal stands and nurses.
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is now accepting applications for accreditation from aftercare organizations.
Passing the TAA’s on-site accreditation inspection will make a facility eligible to receive financial support for the ongoing care of retired Thoroughbreds.
Steve Castagnola’s Kempton Bloodstock will be relaunched in association with the Berger family’s Woodstock Farm near Lexington, Ky.
Castagnola previously was Director of Bloodstock Services for Vinery Ltd. after his full-service bloodstock agency was acquired in 2011 and renamed Vinery Bloodstock. Prior to joining Vinery, Castagnola worked at Taylor Made Farm for 13 years as director of client development before founding Kempton Bloodstock in 2009.
Full Mandate, sire of multiple Grade 1 winner Ron the Greek, has been sold to stand at stud in Saudi Arabia.
The 14-year-old A.P. Indy horse most recently stood at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in Ocala, Fla. The deal to send him overseas was brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.
"Full Mandate is the perfect stallion for racing in Saudi Arabia," Schumer said. "His progeny are sound, durable and best for racing on dirt."
Grade 1 winner Gemologist, standing his first season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., has had his first mares confirmed in foal.
The 4-year-old's first mare scanned in foal was Merry Me in Spring. Gemologist—who stands alongside his sire Tiznow at WinStar—quickly had two other mares confirmed in foal, making him three-for-three on his earliest mares covered.
Two mares have been confirmed in foal to classic winner Union Rags, who is standing his first season at stud at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky.
Fashion Insider, owned by KatieRich Farm, and Miss Patsy, owned by Elm Free Farm and Time Will Tell LLC, were the first two mares scanned in foal to the 4-year-old son of the late Lane's End stallion Dixie Union.
Fashion Insider, a winning Indian Charlie mare, produced her first foal, an Elusive Quality filly, this year.
Grade 1 winner Brilliant Speed, who is standing his initial season at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., is represented by his first two mares confirmed in foal.
Grade 1 winner Dreams Gallore and stakes winner Lacie Slew are both owned by Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Plantation, which campaigned Brilliant Speed as a homebred.