Classic Causeway
Giant’s Causeway–Private World, by Thunder Gulch
Bred in Kentucky by Kentucky West Racing and Clarke M. Cooper Family Living Trust
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DRF Past Performances
Shipsational
Midshipman – Regal Approach, by Thunder Gulch
Bred in New York by Mr. and Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone ($27,000 Keeneland November weanling purchase by Blackwater Sales; $210,000 OBS March juvenile purchase by High Point Bloodstock)
The consistent Shipsational, a statebred stakes winner who reaches for the brass ring in this weekend’s Tampa Bay Derby, is from a family that has found success at a variety of pursuits.
Grade 1 winner and sire Get Stormy died on Sunday at Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky., from a suspected cardiac event. The son of Stormy Atlantic was 16.
Get Stormy, nicknamed "Clyde" on the racetrack for his distinctive white markings reminiscent of a Clydesdale, won 11 of 31 starts and earned more than $1.6 million over five seasons of racing for trainer Tom Bush and Sullimar Stable. He won nine stakes, highlighted by Grade 1 victories in the 2011 Marker's Mark Mile at Keeneland, 2011 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, and 2012 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap.
Pioneerof the Nile died three years ago, at the age of 13, but in that relatively short life, he accomplished much. A Grade 1 winner at ages 2 and 3, Pioneerof the Nile delivered the sport’s long-awaited Triple Crown winner, siring 2015 hero American Pharoah. Still represented on the track by his final crops, Pioneerof the Nile also left behind a bevy of sons to carry on his legacy. That was apparent on Saturday’s busy day of racing nationwide, as Pioneerof the Nile and three of his sons recorded stakes winners, including capturing a pair of Kentucky Derby points races.
Un Ojo
Laoban – Risk a Chance, by A.P. Indy
Bred in New York by Southern Equine Stables
Un Ojo sprang a $152.80 upset in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes last Saturday to earn his debut on the Derby Watch list. However, the New York-bred gelding is from a young sireline that has already had its share of classic success, and from a classy family that has produced several dirt route stakes winners.
Emblem Road, the $229 shock winner of the Group 1, $20 million Saudi Cup for local connections last Saturday, is the latest top level-winning grandson of the late champion Bernardini, who has left behind a powerful legacy as a broodmare sire.
Emblem Road, a son of Quality Road bred in Kentucky and now based in Saudi Arabia, is out of the Bernardini mare Venturini. The daughter of Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Ventura was unplaced in two starts for Juddmonte before going on to her broodmare career. Emblem Road is her second foal, following the stakes-placed Kunal.
The cross of Argentinian champion Candy Ride over European champion Giant’s Causeway proved potent with Horse of the Year Gun Runner. Mixing the bloodlines of these stallions has continued to pay dividends, producing an American classic winner last year and a number of stakes-performing 3-year-olds already this year.
Grade 1 winner Hog Creek Hustle arrived this week at Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, Ky., where he will debut at stud this breeding season, which recently got underway.
Hog Creek Hustle, a 6-year-old son of Overanalyze who earned $774,546, last raced when fourth in the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes on the 2021 Kentucky Derby undercard, beaten less than a length by Flagstaff, Lexitonian, and Whitmore. He subsequently had a bone fragment removed by Dr. Larry Bramlage, and had resumed training on Jan. 1, according to owner Patty Tipton of the Something Special Racing partnership.
The Jockey Club has rescinded a controversial rule that would have capped the number of mares bred by a single stallion at 140 during a single breeding season, only two years after approving it.
In a statement, Stuart Janney III, the chairman of The Jockey Club, said that the organization was rescinding the rule out of concern that the limitation “may divide the industry at a time when there are many important issues that need to be addressed with unity.”
“We are taking this action for the greater good of the entire industry,” the statement said.