From the traditional partnership model of Thoroughbred ownership, which is intended to spread out the reward and risk in the game, various other models have evolved in recent years. Companies such as MyRacehorse offer micro-shares in stock, and groups such as the Churchill Downs Racing Club and other track-affiliated organizations offer a chance to buy in to the “experience” of ownership.

Successful sire Belong to Me has died due to the infirmities of old age, his longtime home, Lane’s End Farm, announced Thursday evening. The New Jersey-bred son of Danzig was 31.

Belong to Me spent his first four seasons at stud in New York before being relocated to Lane’s End in 1998. This is the second recent loss of a prominent pensioner for the Versailles, Ky., farm, which on Feb. 21 said farewell to Hall of Famer and breed-shaping sire A.P. Indy, also 31. Belong to Me had been pensioned since 2013.

Authentic
Into Mischief – Flawless, by Mr. Greeley
Bred in Kentucky by Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds ($350,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by SF Bloodstock/Starlight West)

Breeder and consignor Gerry Dilger, known for his involvement with Kentucky Derby winners Nyquist and Always Dreaming, has died at age 61 following recent cardiac troubles.

Dilger, a native of County Clare, Ireland, came to the U.S. in 1978, and owned and operated Dromoland Farm in Kentucky. He and pinhooking partners Ted Campion and Pat Costello purchased Nyquist for $180,000 as a Keeneland November weanling and continued to raise the colt at Dromoland.

Chance It

Currency Swap – Vagabon Diva, by Pleasantly Perfect

Bred in Florida by Bett Usher

Grade 1 winner and influential broodmare Preach, whose stakes horses included prominent sire Pulpit, has died, owner and breeder Claiborne Farm reported on Wednesday night. The pensioned daughter of Mr. Prospector was 31.

"With a heavy heart, we share that one of the queens of Claiborne Farm, Preach, has passed away at the age of 31," Claiborne posted on its official Twitter account. "A Grade 1 winner herself, Preach produced the breed-shaping Pulpit and has left a lasting legacy as both a racehorse and broodmare. She will be deeply missed by all of us at Claiborne."

Modernist

Uncle Mo – Symbolic Gesture, by Bernardini

Bred in Kentucky by Wygod Family, LLC

Country House, who was last seen in the winner's circle at Churchill Downs after being declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby via an unprecedented disqualification, has been retired following a bout with laminitis, according to a statement issued by his connections on Friday evening.

Sole Volante

Karakontie – Light Blow, by Kingmambo

Bred in Kentucky by Flaxman Holdings ($6,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by New Hope AB; $20,000 OBS April juvenile purchase by Patrick Biancone, agent)

Alittlebitearly, the dam of Breeders' Cup Classic winner Bayern, has died at Helen Alexander's Middlebrook Farm in Kentucky after delivering a healthy filly by Nyquist. The Thunder Gulch mare was 18.