Darley had two reasons to be proud after Gretzky the Great’s Grade 1 victory in the Summer Stakes. Darley stands Gretzky the Great’s sire, Nyquist, and the sire of the colt’s dam, Bernardini, a steadily emerging broodmare sire.
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Nyquist carried the banner in the record-setting first crop of Uncle Mo, emulating his sire on the racetrack with an unbeaten juvenile campaign capped by a Breeders’ Cup Juvenile victory to earn the divisional Eclipse Award. Having taken things a step further by going on to win the 2016 Kentucky Derby, Nyquist is now following in his father’s footsteps as a stallion as well. He leads his freshman class with a pair of Grade 1-winning juveniles in his first crop.
LEXINGTON, KY. – The young broodmare Catch the Moon has already become a star, officially recording her third graded stakes winner as Pirate’s Punch won the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth on Sunday.
Pirate’s Punch, by Shanghai Bobby, had also crossed the line first in the Grade 3 Philip H. Islein last month, but was disqualified to second for interference. His Salvator Mile win punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.
Eight years ago, I’ll Have Another gave Paul and Zillah Reddam their first of two Kentucky Derby wins in 2010s. I’ll Have Another was later sold as a stallion and stood in Japan before being moved to Ballena Vista Farm in California prior to the 2019 breeding season.
Earlier this summer, I’ll Have Another was on the move again. The Reddams reacquired the 11-year-old I’ll Have Another in a private purchase and will stand him at their Ocean Breeze Ranch in Bonsall, Calif., in 2021, Paul Reddam said on Thursday.
The celebration of Shedaresthedevil’s victory in the Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks over Swiss Skydiver stretched from her connections in Louisville around the globe to Karacabey, Turkey. The top two finishers in the Oaks are by former American stallion Daredevil, who was purchased late last year by the Turkish Jockey Club, which was bullish in the North American market.
Curlin’s Voyage
Curlin – Atlantic Voyage, by Stormy Atlantic
Bred in Ontario by Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings
Sovereign Award champion 2-year-old filly Curlin’s Voyage signaled she is ready to take on the Queen’s Plate with a victory in the Woodbine Oaks last month. The filly is a daughter of an influential American classic sire from one of Canada’s most influential families.
The Jockey Club is projecting a 2021 registered North American Thoroughbred foal crop of 19,200, a decline of 6 percent from an estimated 20,500 in 2020.
The foal crop projection is computed by using Reports of Mares Bred received to date for the 2020 breeding season. The crop projection is typically announced in mid-August but The Jockey Club delayed publication of this year's estimate in order to provide farms that may have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic additional time to submit their Reports of Mares Bred.
Roses have thorns. About 20 minutes before Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm co-owned two entrants – Authentic, by its reigning leading sire Into Mischief, and Thousand Words. Then, Thousand Words, whom Spendthrift partners on with Albaugh Family Stables, reared while being saddled and fell in the paddock, resulting in his late scratch.
Halo Again
Speightstown – Halo’s Verse, by Unbridled’s Song
Bred in Ontario by Anderson Farms ($600,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Winchell Thoroughbreds)
Halo Again, a stakes winner both as a juvenile and this season, is by a stallion who excelled as a sprinter but has produced his share of route runners.
In recent years, the club model of Thoroughbred ownership has grown in popularity, attracting new owners to Thoroughbred racing by offering interested parties a chance to buy a small share in a horse with a small single payment. This approach to ownership offers some of the experiences with no additional costs or risks – but also few, if any, financial rewards.
