Tizbud, a full brother to Breeders' Cup Classic winner Tiznow and winner of the 2003 California Cup Classic, will stand the 2005 breeding season at Jubilee Farms in Ocala, Fla., co-owner Michael Cooper said Tuesday.
A son of Cee's Tizzy out of the Seattle Song mare Cee's Song, Tizbud will have a stud fee of $5,000. Cooper said the 6-year-old will leave California for Florida this week.
LAS VEGAS - This is part two in a series on the freshmen sires of 2005, with particular emphasis on how to bet their offspring. The sires' names are followed by their pedigrees and where they stand, and their designations (SP means speed; ST, stamina; T, turf; HT, hidden turf).
Australia's Magic Millions yearling auction, which ended its select selling on Sunday, set records for gross receipts and average price.
The four select sessions featured the final yearlings by Danehill, Australia's dominant sire until his death in 2003 at age 17. One of those, a colt out of the winning Diesis mare Silken Whisper, brought the auction's highest price of $950,000 Australian, or about $721,525 U.S. Coolmore agent Demi O'Byrne bought the Danehill colt from Strawberry Hill Stud and said the colt would remain in Australia for his early training.
Even the Score, a dual Grade 2 winner for his owner, Ro Parra, has been retired to stud after injuring himself during a workout for the Santa Anita Handicap.
The 7-year-old Unbridled's Song horse will stand at his owner's Millennium Farms in Kentucky for a $5,000 fee.
Trained by Vladimir Cerin, Even the Score won the Grade 2 Californian Stakes and Mervyn LeRoy Handicap in 2004, as well as the 2003 Mardi Gras Handicap.
He retires with a race record of 29-9-1-9 and earnings of $751,629.
last ran on July 10, finishing third in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup.
Two horses have died and four others have been hospitalized because of neglect, the Lexington Humane Society said after raiding Four Winds Farm north of Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday.
Nancy and Kathleen Nygaard operated Four Winds on land leased from Chuck and Shawn Deppen's Hard 8 Farm, according to local media reports.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Adena Springs, which stands one of North America's leading sires, Awesome Again, has topped the list of North American breeders for the second year in a row.
Frank Stronach's breeding operation bred the winners of 400 races and $14,225,036 in 2004, according to statistics compiled by The Jockey Club Information Sys-tems. The rankings are determined by purse earnings, which put Stronach well ahead of his closest rival, the late John Franks. Franks-bred runners won 542 races last season and earned $10,296,813.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The sale of the young Storm Cat stallion Exploit to the Korean Racing Association came as a surprise to many breeders and observers. With his first crop of racing age now 4, Exploit has lifetime progeny earnings of $3 million, but despite that, he had not sired the major graded winner needed to keep a stallion competitive in the stallion season market in Kentucky.
The year 2004 was a good one all around for Florida's Thoroughbred industry. The numbers - while not complete, as foreign data dribble in - show that there were 51 graded-stakes winners. Florida-breds won 309 stakes, compared with 314 a year ago. Foal production was consistent with previous years, with 4,144 foals, compared to an average of 4,214 for 2002 and 2003.
"There are always late registrations," said Linda Leaf of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association. "The foal crops, though, have been pretty consistent of late."
