Nadal

Blame – Ascending Angel, by Pulpit

Bred in Kentucky by Sierra Farm ($65,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Randy Bradshaw, agent; $700,000 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream juvenile purchase by Kerri Radcliffe Bloodstock)

Arkansas has been one of the centers of the racing world over the past two months as Oaklawn Park hosted some of the biggest names in racing during its meeting, one of the few tracks that ran without interruption over this unprecedented winter and spring. The meet, which closed Saturday, has helped put Starfish Stallions resident Hamazing Destiny atop the Arkansas sire standings.

Blame was foaled on May 2, 2006. Exactly 14 years later – and a decade after Blame’s championship season – his son Nadal became his fifth Grade 1/Group 1 winner when capturing a division of the Arkansas Derby.

Blame, bred by Claiborne Farm and longtime partner Adele B. Dilschneider, is a product of Claiborne through and through, as he is by the farm’s late sire Arch and out of the Seeking the Gold mare Liable. Nadal also has deep Claiborne ties on both sides of his pedigree, as he is out of Ascending Angel, by the late Claiborne colorbearer Pulpit.

Stonestreet Farm purchased the multiple graded stakes winner Authenticity for $1.2 million out of the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. The mare is working to pay that back.

A rising star in the star-studded Stonestreet broodmare band, Authenticity is the dam of two stakes winners from her first two foals, including Kentucky Derby hopeful Charlatan.

Square Eddie, one of the leading stallions by progeny earnings in California in recent years, has been retired from stud service because of infertility, according to Dennis O’Neill, racing manager for stallion owners Paul and Zillah Reddam.

O’Neill said Friday that Mrazek and Pavel will be available during the current breeding season at the Reddams’ Ocean Breeze Farm in Bonsall, Calif.

Gouverneur Morris

Constitution – Addison Run, by Unbridled’s Song

Bred in Kentucky by Machmer Hall, Carrie Brogden, Craig Brogden, and James F. Miller ($200,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Phoenix Thoroughbreds; $600,000 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream juvenile purchase by Team Valor International)

Live racing on the New York Racing Association circuit was last conducted March 15 at Aqueduct before being suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the spring meeting at Belmont Park has been postponed to a date yet to be announced. However, a lack of racing in their state of residence has not slowed young New York sire Central Banker and the state’s perennial leading sire Freud.

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While race meets around the country have been curtailed, postponed, or canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Gulfstream Park is among those that have continued on steadily. And young Florida sire Khozan has continued on to national attention as well.

European champion and internationally successful sire Shamardal has been euthanized at age 18 as a result of unspecified health issues, Darley's Kildangan Stud said on Thursday.

Shamardal, who was standing for a private fee, was one of the most successful sons at stud of the late Giant's Causeway. He was produced in the European Horse of the Year’s first crop while standing in Kentucky.

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Mr. Big News

Giant’s Causeway – Unappeased, by Galileo

Bred in Kentucky by Don Alberto Corp. ($95,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase by Allied Racing Stable)

For all of his accomplishments, European Horse of the Year and internationally successful stallion Giant’s Causeway has never sired the winner of an American classic race. But the stallion, who died in 2018, may get another chance this season with Mr. Big News, a newcomer to this week’s Derby Watch as the long road to the Kentucky Derby marches on.