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Grade II Winner Oratory to Eureka

Oratory, winner of the 2005 Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) at Belmont Park, will stand in 2012 at Eureka Thoroughbred Farm near Fredericksburg, Texas.

 Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Oratory Sires Initial Winner

Oratory, a grade II winner, sired his first winner when his son Work for a Cure won June 5 at Colonial Downs.

 Saturday, June 06, 2009
Malibu Moon, Action This Day to Spendthrift

Malibu Moon, Action This Day to Spendthrift

Malibu Moon, who has stood the last four years at Castleton Lyons near Lexington, will stand in 2008 at B. Wayne Hughes' newly renovated Spendthrift Farm, also near Lexington.

 Thursday, October 25, 2007

Parker's Storm Cat, Three Others Sire First Winners

Parker's Storm Cat, a son of Storm Cat, and Mom's Little Guy, by El Prado, were represented by their first winners July 29.

 Monday, July 30, 2007

Graded Stakes Producer Prospective Joy Dead

Prospective Joy, dam of grade I winner Hookedonthefeelin, died in March of foaling complications.

 Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Grade II Winner Oratory's First Foal

The first reported foal by grade II winner Oratory is a filly born Feb. 2 at Dr. Jerry Bilinski's Waldorf Farm near North Chatham, N.Y.

 Sunday, February 18, 2007

Pensioned Maryland Stallion Carnivalay Dead

Carnivalay, one of Maryland's top stallions for years, died Jan. 9 of an apparent heart attack at the Pons' family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md.

 Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Unbridled Jet to Sleeter Farms in New Jersey

Unbridled Jet, a grade II stakes-placed son of Unbridled, has been purchased by Jerry Sleeter for stallion duty at Sleeter Farms near Clementon, N.J.

 Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Friday Morning Line at Pimlico

The blue and white Brook Ledge van pulled up to a receiving area near the stakes barn at Pimlico at 2:35 p.m. Elvis has entered the building.

 Friday, May 19, 2006

Maryland Stallion Citidancer Pensioned

Citidancer, one of Maryland's leading sires for years, has been pensioned at the Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., because of declining fertility.

 Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Maryland Horseman Joseph P. Pons Sr. Dead

Joseph P. Pons Sr., patriarch of Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., died Oct. 12 of a heart attack at his home at the farm.

 Thursday, October 13, 2005

Oratory to Stand at Country Life in Maryland

Oratory, winner of this year's Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) in stakes-record time in the silks of Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stable, arrived at the Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., Aug. 30 to take up stud duties for 2006.

 Thursday, September 01, 2005

Maryland Stallion Carnivalay Pensioned

Carnivalay, one of Maryland's top stallions since entering the stallion ranks at the Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., and one of the last of the Northern Dancers at stud, has been pensioned because of decreased fertility.

 Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Unbridled's No Armistice to Country Life Farm

B. Wayne Hughes' No Armistice, a graded stakes-placed son of Unbridled, will enter stud for the 2004 breeding season at The Pons family's Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md.

 Wednesday, September 17, 2003