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.
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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.
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.