Goldikova, a champion on two continents who won an unprecedented three consecutive editions of the Breeders' Cup Mile, gave birth to her first foal on Sunday, Feb. 3, a colt by leading international sire Galileo.
The colt was born at Coolmore Stud in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Stakes winner Street Life will stand the 2013 breeding season at Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch in Warner Springs, Calif. The 4-year-old son of Street Sense will stand for a fee of $5,000 when the foal stands and nurses.
Campaigned by Magnolia Racing Stable and Hidden Brook Farm and trained by Chad Brown, Street Life won three of eight starts and earned $237,735 during 2012, his only season of racing.
Soldat, a graded stakes winner on turf and dirt, has been retired after injuring a suspensory ligament in his left hind leg, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said. No stud plans have yet been made for Soldat.
Soldat had been pointing to Saturday’s Grade 1 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park.
McLaughlin said that Soldat “took a couple of funny steps” at the end of a half-mile workout at Palm Meadows on Jan. 26.
New York Thoroughbred Breeders held its first meeting of the year on Monday, re-electing two key positions on its board.
The board unanimously re-elected Thomas J. Gallo III to serve as board vice president and Vivien Malloy as secretary-treasurer to two-year terms in their respective positions. President Barry Ostrager will serve the second year of a two-year term in 2013.
New to the board is Mallory Mort, who was elected last year to serve a two-year term beginning in 2013. Mort is the manager of Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent, N.Y.
Multiple Grade 3 winner American Lion was represented by his first foal on Jan. 31 when a filly born at Red Riding Hood Stables in Holly, Mich. The filly is out of the stakes-placed Klinsman mare Klinsman's Luck, who is a half-sister to stakes winners Regal Pusher and Born to the Bad.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Marquetry, sire of two Eclipse Award-winning sprinters, was euthanized on Feb. 1 at Michael Blowen’s Old Friends retirement home for Thoroughbreds in Georgetown, Ky.
The 26-year-old son of Conquistador Cielo was euthanized after suffering an injury in his stall at Old Friends. Veterinarians from Hagyard Medical Institute attended to Marquetry, according to Blowen, and a full necropsy report will be filed.
Grade 1 winner Here Comes Ben was represented by his first foal on Jan. 31, a filly born at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The filly is out of the winning Forestry mare Double Dinghy Day. Her dam, the Unbridled mare Windsong, was multiple graded stakes-placed. It is the family of stakes winners Falconese, Shackles, and Open Meadows.
The well-bred stakes winner Causeway's Kin was represented by his first foal on Jan. 30, a filly born at Stonewall Farm Ocala in Ocala, Fla.
The filly is out of the unraced Victory Gallop mare Bold Maiden. Their dam, the stakes-placed Spirited Maiden, is a half-sister to Group 3 winner Eishin Lombard. It is the family of multiple graded stakes winner Salty Strike.
Champion sprinter Orientate will relocate to stand the 2013 breeding season at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md.
The 15-year-old Mt. Livermore horse, owned by a syndicate, will stand for a fee of $5,000 when the foal stands and nurses.
Orientate had stood his entire career to date at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he entered stud in 2003. He most recently stood for a fee of $7,500 in 2012.
It has practically been a year in the making.
From the first announcements of horses retiring in the spring, through the farewell efforts at the Breeders’ Cup, the roster of new stallions set to debut in breeding sheds in 2013 has grown. When the breeding season begins in mid-February, those horses move into the next phase of their lives.
