LEXINGTON, Ky. – Repriced, one of the last remaining sons of Roberto at stud, has died at age 24.
The cause of his Jan. 27 death appeared to be a heart attack, according to Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, where the stallion had resided since 2000.
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New Zealand Bloodstock’s premier yearling sale in Karaka ended a two-day run Tuesday with a seven-figure sale-topper that tempered financial declines.
Te Akau Stud’s David Ellis paid about $1,435,000 for a Fastnet Rock-Nureyev colt who is a half-brother to Group 1 winner King’s Rose and to last year’s sale-topper, the Red Ransom colt Bolshoi Ruler.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Rachel Alexandra and her 10-day-old Curlin colt have returned to Stonestreet Farms near Lexington, according to a post on the farm’s Facebook page.
On Monday, Stonestreet posted a photograph of the mare and foal in a stall, captioned, “Home Sweet Home!”
The 6-year-old mare and her foal had been at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington since Jan. 27 due to what Stonestreet termed “a precautionary measure after her delivery for pain management related to the birth.”
Woodford Thoroughbreds has hired trainer John Dowd and plans to open a public training division this summer at CloverLeaf Farms II in central Florida.
The Reddick, Fla., training operation will begin accepting horses this summer, according to an announcement from Woodford, which currently has a commercial breeding farm in Versailles, Ky. John Sykes owns both Woodford and CloverLeaf, and Matt Lyons is general manager for both properties.
Catalogs are available online now for the Barretts March selected 2-year-old sale, set for March 5 at Fairplex Park in Pomona, Calif.
The catalog, which was scaled down by 22 percent last year, has grown in 2012 with 149 juveniles in the book, a 41 percent increase over the 2011 figure. Once again, the auction will take place in a night session that starts at 6 p.m. local time in the Hinds Pavilion at Fairplex.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - James Edwards, a two-time New York breeder of the year who owned Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y., and the Stallion Park in Millbrook, N.Y., has died at age 94.
Edwards died at his home in Redding, Conn. He was the owner and president of Churchill Business Forms in Newton, Conn.
Edwards was an active member of the New York Thoroughbred Breeders and campaigned such stakes winners as graded winner Dewars Rocks, Princess Dixie, Image Maker, Talc Duster, Kate’s Valentine, Pretty Suzi, Talc’s Coventry, Bo Bo’s Vice, and Solar Deputy, among others.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year who produced her first foal on Jan. 22, was taken with her Curlin colt to the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital here "as a precautionary measure after her delivery for pain management related to the birth," according to a statement from Stonestreet Farms.
The statement said both mare and foal are "fine."
"Rachel has been under the care of Dr. Bonnie Barr, who is doing a great job of making sure both mother and foal are doing well," the statement issued Friday evening said.
Ron Stolich made the 80-mile drive from Rancho Mirage, Calif., to Pomona last Monday with a singular purpose. The mare Sci Fi Kin was available at the Barretts January mixed sale, and she was the one Stolich wanted for his Kentucky broodmare band.
“That’s the only reason I went there,” he said on Thursday.
He got her for the right price. Stolich said the $60,000 final bid, which topped the sale, was his last bid. “I thought if I could get her for $60,000, that was a good buy,” he said.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Old Forester, with North American progeny earnings of $3,106,650, has been granted a $50,000 award as Ontario’s top sire of 2011.
The year-end awards, administered by the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Ontario division through the Thoroughbred Improvement program, were announced on Thursday in a press release.
Old Forester, a son of Forestry, sired 41 winners from 81 runners, including stakes winners Citius, Jenna’s Wabbit, Kitty’s Got Class, and Weekend Romance.