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Powerscourt Retires to Ashford

Powerscourt, an Irish champion and winner of this year's Arlington Million Stakes (gr. IT), has been retired from racing for stallion duty at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky.

 Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Group I Winner Virginia Waters to Be Bred to Giant's Causeway

English mile classic winner Virginia Waters has been retired from racing and is booked to leading second-crop sire Giant's Causeway.

 Monday, October 03, 2005

Grade I Winner Sense of Style Retired

Sense of Style, a grade I winner as a 2-year-old last year, has been retired from racing following a last-place finish in the Aug. 6 Test Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga.

 Monday, August 08, 2005

Giant's Causeway's Fee Upped to $200,000

Giant's Causeway, whose son Noble Causeway is one of the top Kentucky Derby (gr. I) contenders, has had his stud fee boosted to $200,000 from $150,000.

 Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Woodman Sires 100th Stakes Winner

Woodman, whose runners have won stakes across the globe, sired his 100th stakes winner when his 4-year-old daughter Kelliewood captured the March 19 Natasha Trophy in Australia.

 Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Hum Along, dam of Champion Storm Song, Dead

Hum Along, dam of champion Storm Song, died from complications while foaling a Giant's Causeway colt Feb. 23.

 Tuesday, March 08, 2005

High Yield to Shuttle to Argentina

Coolmore Stud has dropped the Storm Cat stallion High Yield from its Australian roster for 2005.

 Tuesday, February 15, 2005

First Foal for Group I Winner Hold That Tiger

French group I winner Hold That Tiger's first crop includes a filly out of the Dehere mare Senorita Dehere.

 Monday, February 07, 2005

Sadler's Wells Captures Record 13th Consecutive Sire Title

Thirteen often is viewed as an unlucky number. But not when it refers to Sadler's Wells nowadays.

 Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Fees for Fusaichi Pegasus, Giant's Causeway Upped to $150,000

Ashford Stud stallions Fusaichi Pegasus and Giant's Causeway, two of the leading freshman sires of 2004, have had their stud fees raised to $150,000 for the 2005 breeding season

 Monday, January 03, 2005

Prominent Stallion Storm Bird Dead

Storm Bird, a European champion who sired the great Storm Cat, was euthanized the night of Dec. 3 following a bout with colic at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky.

 Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Monashee Mountain's First Australian Winner

Coolmore stallion Monashee Mountain, one of the leading freshman sires, got off to quick start in Australia when his first Australian starter scored in Queensland yesterday.

 Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Monashee Mountain Moving to Ashford

Monashee Mountain, a half-brother to Horse of the Year Mineshaft, will move from Coolmore Stud in Ireland to Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky., for 2005.

 Thursday, November 04, 2004

New Zealand's Dr Green Most Recent Star for Fusaichi Pegasus

First-year stallion Fusaichi Pegasus, whose son Roman Ruler was installed the 8-5 favorite in the Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I), has another potential star emerging in New Zealand in the form of Dr Green.

 Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Grand Slam's Fee Upped to $85,000; Lion Heart Starting at $30,000

Ashford Stud stallions Grand Slam and Tale of the Cat, two of the year's leading sires, have undergone fee changes for 2005--one up and the other down.

 Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Lion Heart, Chapel Royal to Ashford

Graded stakes winners Lion Heart and Chapel Royal, both of whom were retired from racing within the past two months, will enter stud at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky.

 Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Royal Academy Sires 100th Stakes Winner

Coolmore stallion Royal Academy, who attained milestones as both a yearling and as a racehorse, came through with one as a stallion. The 17-year-old stallion has sired his 100th stakes winner.

 Wednesday, October 06, 2004

High Yield's First Winner

High Yield, a three-time grade I winner, was represented by his first winner when daughter Honky Tonk Pat won July 10.

 Sunday, July 11, 2004

Thunder Gulch, Honour and Glory, Housebuster to Argentina

Thunder Gulch and Honour and Glory, both of whom stand at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky., and Virginia stallion Housebuster will shuttle to Argentina

 Monday, June 21, 2004

Giant's Causeway's First Winner

European champion Giant's Causeway was represented by his first winner when his daughter Aischa won May 1 at five furlongs in Rome.

 Monday, May 03, 2004

Fusaichi Pegasus Sires First Winner

Fusaichi Pegasus, the 2000 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner, reached sire status when his son In Excelsis won a maiden race April 22 in heavy going at Tipperary in Ireland.

 Friday, April 23, 2004

Millionaire Astra's First Foal

Millionaire Astra produced her first foal, a Giant's Causeway filly, Jan. 15 for Allen E. Paulson Living Trust and Liberty Road Stables.

 Monday, January 26, 2004

First Foals for Millionaires Johannesburg and Red Bullet

The first reported foals by international champion Johannesburg and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Red Bullet were born the beginning of January.

 Friday, January 09, 2004

Hold That Tiger, Van Nistelrooy to Ashford

French group I winner Hold That Tiger and Van Nistelrooy, an Irish group II winner, will stand the 2004 season at Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky.

 Sunday, November 02, 2003

Louis Quatorze to Murmur in Maryland

E. Allen Murray and his wife, Audrey, who bought the stallion Our Emblem two years ago and watched him develop into a star when his son War Emblem won the 2002 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I). have purchased 10-year-old Louis Quatorze for stallion duty at their Murmur Farm near Darlington, Md.

 Friday, October 31, 2003

Fees for Fusaichi Pegasus, Giant's Causeway Reduced

Ashford Stud announced a major reduction in the 2004 fees for young stallions Fusaichi Pegasus and Giant's Causeway, both of whom stood the past breeding season for $125,000.

 Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Spinning World to Coolmore Ireland; Mozart's Fee Ir£30,000

Coolmore Stud will stand Spinning World at its Irish headquarters rather than at its North American satellite, Ashford Stud, near Versailles, Ky., for the 2002 breeding season.

 Thursday, November 08, 2001

Market Timing

By P. Headley Bell -- This is not the '80s, no matter how scary it feels.

 Tuesday, September 19, 2000

High Yield Arrives at Ashford

Three-time grade I winner High Yield has arrived at Ashford Stud and will be available for inspection by breeders during the Keeneland September yearling sale.

 Friday, September 08, 2000

El Gran Senor Pensioned

El Gran Senor, a son of Northern Dancer and sire of 49 stakes winners to date, has been retired.

 Friday, July 07, 2000

Fusaichi Pegasus to Resume Training

Fusaichi Pegasus is scheduled to resume serious training again next week.

 Wednesday, June 28, 2000

Breeders, Agencies, Keeneland Plan Internet Sales

Five prominent Central Kentucky Thoroughbred breeding farms and sale agencies plan to implement a year-round Internet horse auction company.

 Tuesday, June 27, 2000
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