Top Colt, So Far, Goes to Alex Lieblong for $550,000
Owner Alex Lieblong said the colt impressed him by working :10 into a stiff headwind during the under tack show. The colt will go to trainer Ron Moquett.
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Eric Mitchell has worked at BloodHorse since October 1999, joining the staff originally as a business writer. He is now covers stallion and farm news as Bloodstock Editor and manages BloodHorse MarketWatch, Stallion Register, and the Auction Edge sales guide.
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Quality Road Filly Sets the Bar at $800,000
Owner/breeder Frank Fletcher bought the filly (Hip 95) whose third dam is Cee's Song, the dam of Tiznow, Budroyale, Tizdubai, and Tizbud.
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Young Goes to $475,000 for Arch Filly from Off the Hook
Bloodstock agent Steve Young bought the filly for an undisclosed client early in the opening session April 24 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales April 2-year-olds in training sale
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Cat Burglar Retired to Barton Thoroughbreds
Multiple graded stakes-placed, black-type winner Cat Burglar has been retired sound from racing and will enter stud for the 2018 season at Barton Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, Calif., for $2,500.
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WinStar Holds Strong Hand in KY Derby as Breeder
Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm is the breeder of three Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) contenders with Bolt d'Oro, Noble Indy, and Quip locked into the 20-horse field for the May 5 classic race in Louisville.
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Slade Power's First Winner Arrives at Newmarket
Strings of Life won her debut going five furlongs April 18 by half a length.
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Stonestreet's Good Mojo Creates Good Magic
Good Magic brings the Stonestreet dream to fruition
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Adorable Analia is First Winner for The Apache
Sire is multiple group 1 winner who competed in top company in four countries.
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Capo Bastone's First Winner Comes at Keeneland
Adena Springs Kentucky's grade 1 winner and freshman sire Capo Bastone got his first winner April 11 at Keeneland, where his son Hargus won in his first start by 2 1/2 lengths.
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Da Big Hoss Retired to Stud at Poplar Creek
The multiple graded stakes winner and son of Lemon Drop Kid earned more than $1.5 million during his racing career.
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It's All In the Family
From a well-bred mare that only made one start, Richard Leahy's Oak Bluff Stables is building a small but powerful breeding operation. He bred Xpressbet Florida Derby (G1) winner Audible and graded-placed stakes winner Governor Malibu.
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Owner/Breeder James Coulter Dies at 71
Owner/breeder James Coulter, who campaigned graded stakes winner and 2014 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) starter Sugar Shock, passed away March 20 at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill., north of Chicago. He was 71.
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Peacocks' All-In Plan Led to Runaway Ghost
After more than 50 years in horse racing, the Peacock family focused their entire breeding operation on one mare. The plan could not be working any better.
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Stellar Wind in Ireland, to be Bred to Galileo
Multiple grade 1 winner Stellar Wind, who M.V. Magnier purchased for $6 million at the 2017 Keeneland November breeding stock sale, was exported to Ireland and will be bred to Galileo, confirmed associates with Coolmore Stud March 26.
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Talks Ongoing About Returning Take Charge Indy to U.S.
The son of A.P. Indy was sold to the Korea Racing Authority in November 2016, but WinStar Farm has an option to buy him back.
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Bass Family Keeps Raising the Bar
Only five months after toasting its first grade 1 winner as a breeder, the Bass family of Fort Worth is traveling the fast lane of the Road to the Kentucky Derby with a live contender they bred named Magnum Moon.
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Arc Winner, Former U.S. Sire Trempolino Dies at 34
Haras du Mezeray's stalwart sire Trempolino, who came within half a length of winning both the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) and the Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) in the same season in 1987, died at the age of 34.
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Texas Horseman Ted Keefer Dies at 83
The owner of Shady Oak Farm training center near Magnolia, Texas, raced graded stakes winners with Bill Heiligbrodt and Walter "Buddy" New.
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Enticed Carries On Powerful Stonerside Legacy
Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing is on a solid track toward this year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) with a homebred named Enticed, a son of Darley's sire Medaglia d'Oro out of the multiple grade 1 winner It's Tricky.
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Will Take Charge Juveniles Showing Power and Speed
Look to be smooth, athletic, big-moving horses
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Juvenile Standouts from Regional Sires
Progeny by Uncaptured, He's Had Enough, and Central Banker taking to training
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Strong Mandate 2-Year-Olds Continue to Impress
Fourth-leading sire of class by yearling average
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Verrazano Passing Down More Than Ready's Athleticism
Many progeny have their grandsire's athleticism and balance
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Flashes of Tapit in Flashback Progeny
Consignors see good-moving horses with a willingness to train
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Fed Biz Progeny Show Promise as 2-Year-Old Sales Loom
Juveniles by WinStar Farm stallion are "pretty precocious-looking and very forward"
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Atomicka is Daddy Long Legs' First Black-Type Winner
Juvenile filly won a grade 3 in her second start at Hipodromo Chile March 3.
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From a Single Broodmare to Promises Fulfilled
From his initial band of one modest broodmare, Jacobs has now bred four black-type winners and just celebrated an important milestone as the breeder of a graded stakes winner.
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Trainers Wanted for 2-Year-Olds in Training Survey
The University of Kentucky's Gluck Equine Center is conducting a survey to identify the injury or illness rate among 2-year-olds in training throughout North America.
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Shannondoe Delivers First Foal by Dynamic Sky
The colt also was bred by Shannondoe Farm out of the grade 1 producer Count to Three.
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Dublin Relocated to Mohns Hill Farm in Pennsylvania
Son of Afleet Alex was the Northeast's top third-crop sire in 2017.
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Eye of the Leopard Relocated to Minnesota
Eye of the Leopard, the Canadian champion 3-year-old colt of 2009 and Queen's Plate winner, has been relocated from Calumet Farm to Osborne Farm near Cambridge, Minn., for the 2018 season. His stud fee will be $1,500 live foal stands and nurses.
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Mendelssohn Possible for European Kentucky Derby Trail
Mendelssohn, Seahenge, and Threeandfourpence possible for either the Kentucky Derby Conditions Race March 1 at Kempton Park or the Patton Stakes March 2 at Dundalk.
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Frankel Has Winners in 11 Countries
Immortalised broke his maiden Feb. 16 at Al Ain Racecourse. Frankel now has had 76 winners in seven Northern Hemisphere and four Southern Hemisphere countries.
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Prominent Owner/Breeder Franklin Groves Dies at 87
Groves, who was honored with an Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder in 1989, owned North Ridge Farm and Man o' War Farm.
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Eastern Joy the Bluest of Blue Hens
The 12-year-old mare by Dubai Destination has produced five black-type winners from five foals to race.
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As a Gelding, Overdriven Starts New Career
Former stallion has begun retraining at New Vocations.
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Social Inclusion's First Foal is a Florida-bred Filly
The first reported foal for Social Inclusion (Pioneerof the Nile—Saint Bernadette, by Saint Ballado) is a bay filly, out of Got Dimples, born Jan. 27 in Florida, announced Woodford Thoroughbreds Feb. 1.
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Glen Hill Farm's Filly is Flintshire's First Foal
Hill 'n' Dale Farms' Eclipse champion and five-time grade/group 1 winner Flintshire was represented by his first reported foal when Glen Hill Farm had a filly out of Last Resort born Jan. 18 in Kentucky.
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Career in Three-Day Eventing for The Pamplemousse
Son of Kafwain is at Edgeview Equestrian Center in Idaho
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Farm Where Reload Stands Delivers His First Foal
Sherry Mclean got the thrill Jan. 28 of delivering the first reported foal by her first-crop sire and grade 3 winner Reload, who stands at Mclean's Northern Dawn Stables near Hillsburgh, Ontario.
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Gun Runner Settles in for Shift to Stud Career
Horse of the Year expected to visit test mares Jan. 31 or Feb. 1
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Mav Master is 50th Stakes Winner for Mizzen Mast
Texas-bred Mav Master became the 50th black-type winner for Juddmonte Farms' Mizzen Mast, when the Hal Browning homebred won Sam Houston Race Park's Richard King Turf Stakes Jan. 27.
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High Cotton Pensioned Because of Declining Fertility
While some in the Thoroughbred breeding industry bemoan the large books of mares required to be a commercial stallion, a book of 100-plus mares is what Ocala Stud's grade 3 winner High Cotton required to be a viable, potent sire.
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A Fourth Outstanding Owner Eclipse for Juddmonte Farms
Arrogate was not the only star in the Juddmonte Farms stable, and they all played roles in delivering Prince Khalid Abdullah his fourth Eclipse Award trophy as Outstanding Owner.
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Outstanding Breeder Eclipse Awarded to Clearsky Farms
Clearsky Farms had another remarkable year as a breeder in 2017, when the Central Kentucky-based farm owned by the Cleary family was the leader by progeny earnings and grade 1 earnings and the co-leader by number of grade 1 wins.
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Chestnut Colt is Reported First Foal for Jess's Dream
Foal was bred by and born at Jacks or Better Farm.
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Upstart's First Reported Foal is a Colt
The first reported foal by Airdrie Stud's Upstart, a millionaire son of Flatter, was born Jan. 19 at Sean Curtin's Moonestone Farm near Paris, Ky.
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Big Blue Kitten's First Foal is a Kentucky Colt
Calumet Farm's four-time grade 1 winner and champion grass horse Big Blue Kitten sired his first reported foal Jan. 9, when a colt out of Lady Prado was born at Chesapeake Farm near Lexington.
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Hagyard Equine Merges With National Vet Network
Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington announced Jan. 19 a merger with Mixed Animal Veterinary Associates of North America, an umbrella organization for 22 equine, mixed animal, and companion animal veterinary practices in 11 states.
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Bay Filly is Hit It a Bomb's First Foal
Michael Wood bred the foal, born at Chasing the Sun Stables Jan. 17.
