A half-sister to Triple Crown winner Justify was foaled early Tuesday at the father-daughter team of John and Tanya Gunther’s Glenwood Farm in Versailles, Ky.
Honor A. P.
Honor Code–Hollywood Story, by Wild Rush
Bred in Kentucky by George Krikorian ($850,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase by C R K Stable)
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The white-hot young sire Constitution has already proven himself an elite member of his class, among the leaders of an intensely talented and competitive group of first-crop sires. But with Tiz the Law's second career Grade 1 victory in Saturday's Curlin Florida Derby, Constitution has joined an elite club alongside an established stallion who is one of the most influential of the modern era.
The Turkish Jockey Club was bullish in the market last year, purchasing several established or promising stallions from various jurisdictions to move to its country. One of its investments is already skyrocketing in value, as Daredevil now has two daughters from his first crop established on the Kentucky Oaks trail, with Swiss Skydiver's victory in Saturday's Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks.
It has been half a century since the birth of Virginia’s most famous equine son – record-shattering Triple Crown winner Secretariat. The 50-year anniversary of his birth provides a chance to look back on the history of Thoroughbred breeding in the state, even as the state looks forward. Last season’s return of racing to Colonial Downs was a key point for the Virginia industry, which has worked hard to keep local farms and training centers afloat, and could now be finding some relief.
Nature dictates that the Thoroughbred bloodstock industry proceed with its business, even as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. In the Northern Hemisphere, the breeding season was well under way as various jurisdictions began to declare states of emergency, and this week, both The Jockey Club and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture issued additional guidelines to help the season continue unabated and with as little chance of spreading the virus as possible.
Tiz the Law
Constitution – Tizfiz, by Tiznow
Bred in New York by Twin Creeks Farm ($110,000 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling purchase by Jack Knowlton)
A Munnings filly out of a Tapit mare won the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks on Saturday – just not the one everyone expected.
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Bonny South won her third consecutive race as she upset the Fair Grounds Oaks. Heavy favorite Finite, bred on the same pedigree cross, faded to fourth.
The Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders has unveiled its statebred champions and associated merit award winners, led by Broodmare of the Year Beyond the Waves, via press release. The award winners are typically revealed at a luncheon in April at Keeneland, which has been postponed until the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Beyond the Waves, the dam of 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar, was honored as Kentucky’s Broodmare of the Year on Thursday, days after being bred to Oscar Performance, a major vote of confidence for the second-year stallion, who stands at Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, Ky.
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