Last week was the time for Not This Time. A graded stakes-winning juvenile himself, Not This Time got off to a fast start with two first-crop winners in as many days, taking command of the North American freshman sire list early. Through Sunday, no other freshman stallion in this region had yet recorded a winner.
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Graded stakes-winning juvenile Not This Time was represented by his first winner on Thursday at Churchill Downs, with his daughter Hopeful Princess outdueling Mad Maddy to win the first 2-year-old race of the year at Churchill Downs by three-quarters of a length.
As more racing jurisdictions begin to emerge from their pandemic-forced shutdowns, there are more of the traditional early-season opportunities for juveniles – and therefore, more runners starting out for freshman sires. That’s obvious at Churchill Downs, where the second week of the track’s belated spring meeting features Kentucky’s first 2-year-old races, and the first entrants for several freshman sires, including Eclipse Award champion sprinter Runhappy.
Two foals with close connections to champions arrived over the weekend in Kentucky.
Love the Chase, dam of 2014 and 2016 Horse of the Year California Chrome, delivered a colt from the first crop of Accelerate on Saturday at Atlas Farm in Nicholasville. One day later, 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta delivered a filly by leading sire Candy Ride at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles.
Triple Crown winner Justify was tied as the most active stallion in North America in his first season at stud in 2019. Justify covered 252 mares, many of them top-level winners or producers, according to The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares Bred. Justify’s first foals are arriving this season – but when his first sons enter stud some handful of years from now, the rules, competition, and market they face will be quite different.
Northview Stallion Station, a perennial leader in the Mid-Atlantic region, will sell its Pennsylvania property and consolidate its operations on its Maryland division, it announced Monday.
The 180-acre property in Peach Bottom, Pa., will be listed with Patterson-Price Real Estate, one of the largest agricultural real estate companies in the region. It will continue to operate normally, with no changes to the 2020 breeding season or mare bookings, until the property is sold or until fall, at which time the resident stallions will be moved to the Maryland division.
Tapit and War Front are both standouts in the North American sire ranks and have been rivals atop the commercial leaderboard. The two stallions are starting to combine for success together as well, with recent stakes winner Halladay one example of their lines being crossed.
Halladay, a 4-year-old War Front colt out of the Grade 3-winning Tapit mare Hightap, won the Sunshine Forever Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. It was his second stakes win, as he previously took the Tropical Park Derby in December at Gulfstream. He placed in a pair of stakes last fall in New York.
The Jockey Club board of stewards has, for the first time, adopted a rule that limits the number of mares allowed to be bred to some Thoroughbred stallions in North America, it announced Thursday. The rule puts a cap of 140 mares bred annually for stallions born in 2020 or after. The Jockey Club put no cap on stallions born before 2019.
Hill 'n' Dale Farm has acquired the future breeding rights to Kentucky Derby hopeful Charlatan, who remained unbeaten with a dominant victory in a division of the Arkansas Derby last Saturday.
The 3-year-old son of Speightstown is campaigned in partnership by SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Stonestreet Farm, Madaket Stables, Fred Hertrich III, John D. Fielding, and Golconda Stables, and is trained by Bob Baffert.