courtesy of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, Louise Reinagel photoTeuflesberg
Trinniberg, the successful result of a speed-on-speed mating, got his young sire Teuflesberg off to a good start and transformed his dam from an obscurely bred runner to a $460,000 broodmare.
Heading into autumn 2012, it appeared that the final chapters on Green Tune’s legacy as a sire were close to completion, as far as the accomplishments of his leading runners are concerned. The late son of Green Dancer, a classic winner in France and one of that country’s leading sires, still had numerous horses racing across Europe, but no standouts. His best performer in training was a competitive 5-year-old mare who had annexed two Group 3 races in France before shipping to the U.S. and winning the Grade 1 Diana Stakes in 2011.
courtesy Three Chimneys FarmWar Chant
The top side of multiple Grade 1 winner Pierrot Lunaire's pedigree is littered with Grade 1 performers on both turf and dirt, while the 9-year-old gelding hails from a female family that has produced stakes horses on both sides of the Atlantic. This versatile family now welcomes a steeplechase champion.
It’s official: Storm Cat has done it all. Anyone who has thumbed even casually through Daily Racing Form past performances in recent years has encountered the terms “Storm” and “Cat” too many times to count. This horse is everywhere, omnipresent like the god of racing he is . . . his name synonymous with the best this sport has to offer.
Henrythenavigator found success on both sides of the Atlantic during his racing career, winning multiple Group 1 events in Europe before finishing a close second in the richest race in North America. As a stallion, he has found similar success early in his stud career, siring a Grade 1 or Group 1 winner on each side of the pond to reign as the leading North American freshman sire for 2012.
Harlan's Holiday is a record-setting juvenile sire. That is likely something few would have anticipated when the horse retired from racing in 2004, but he now stands tall in the company of such greats as Bull Lea, Roman, Nasrullah, Bold Ruler, Alydar, Danzig, Capote, and Tapit - all former holders of the juvenile earnings record.
It’s one thing to reach the top of the mountain. It’s another to stay there.
In the past four seasons, four different men have each held the National Football League’s rushing title and Major League Baseball’s home run crown. Over the same span of time, three different players have each been the leading scorers for the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer.
