Dance in Time won't be remembered as one of Canada's all-time top racehorses but he's receiving a lot of attention this spring as the broodmare sire of the exciting filly Ipi Tombe.
Ipi Tombe, the Zimbabwean-bred wonderhorse who dusted colts in the Dubai Duty Free and is headed to North America, is a 5-year-old daughter of the unraced Mr. Prospector stallion Manshood and out of Carnet de Danse, a winning English-bred mare by Dance in Time.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Illinois Thoroughbred breeders have an opportunity to access champion bloodlines, thanks to the recent arrival of 1995 Canadian turf champion Hasten
to Add at Shultz Farms in Bloomington. Hasten to Add's new owner, Gary Shultz, bought the horse from Black Oak Farm in California this month. But racehorse breeders aren't the only ones who will be calling Shultz to buy seasons to the Cozzene horse.
Carson Hollow and her connections were the big winners Tuesday night at the annual New York Thoroughbred Breeders' awards dinner in Albany, N.Y.
Carson Hollow, who won last Saturday's Grade 2 Distaff Breeders' Cup Handicap at Aqueduct, was named New York-bred horse of the year and champion 3-year-old filly and sprinter for her 2002 campaign.
Carson's Hollow's trainer, Richard Dutrow Jr., her breeder, Patricia Purdy, and the filly's regular rider, John Velazquez, also were honored with NYTB awards.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Anees, North America's champion 2-year-old in 1999, has been withdrawn from stud service after injuring himself in a paddock accident.
Mill Ridge Farm announced Tuesday that Anees injured his left front pastern Monday when he was turned out after the morning breeding session. The farm shipped Anees to Lexington's Hagyard Davidson McGee equine hospital, where the fracture was surgically repaired. The stallion remains at Hagyard, where his prognosis, according to Mill Ridge, is "guarded."
Anees is likely to miss the rest of the breeding season.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Linda Ann Conley McGaughey, longtime North American representative for the English-based Tattersalls sales company, died last Friday in Lexington. She was 59 and had been treated for an undisclosed illness since last fall.
McGaughey was a well-known figure in the international Thoroughbred sales world and had represented Tattersalls since the mid-1980's, working primarily to assist consignors and help bring American-bred horses to market at Tattersalls auctions.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Barbara de Kwiatkowski, widow of Calumet Farm owner Henryk de Kwiatkowski, said this week that Calumet will remain a horse farm "as long as I can help it."
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported de Kwiatkowski's statement Friday. Henryk de Kwiatkowski died March 17 of pneumonia.
Barbara de Kwiatkowski, the second wife of the Polish-born airline magnate, told the paper that "Calumet is going to stay there as long as I can help it, because Calumet works. It just depends really on my stepchildren."
LEXINGTON, Ky. - When word came earlier this week that 2002 Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem has shown little interest in covering mares at Shadai Stud in Japan, it didn't take long for Dr. Phil McCarthy's phone to ring in Kentucky.
McCarthy is a veterinarian known for his work on equine fertility issues, and War Emblem's insurers, Lloyds of London, has asked him to act as a consultant on the stallion's case. McCarthy hasn't examined the horse or made a diagnosis yet, but he did say this week that War Emblem's lack of libido might turn out to be reversible.
ARCADIA, Calif. - When Road to Slew won the Crystal Water Handicap for California-breds for a record third time last Sunday, the satisfaction was visible on the faces of owner Nick Cafarchia and trainer Craig Dollase.
Six months ago, Road to Slew was on a local farm, recovering from a pulled ligament that threatened to end his accomplished career. Now, after two starts this year, Road to Slew is showing the same competitive spirit as an 8-year-old that he showed during a six-month span in 2000-01 when he won three consecutive stakes.