Dalham Hall Stud's freshman sire Farhh checked off two milestones at once getting his first stakes winner and first group winner in the same outing when Wells Farhh Go took the Aug. 23 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes (G3) at York in England.
The two experienced horsemen have joined together under the banner of Empire Thoroughbreds to offer their bloodstock services for those looking to purchase Thoroughbreds privately or at public auction.
The excitement of a glorious June 2015 Saturday in New York is still rippling through the racing world with the arrival of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah in Australia.
Lane's End Sales will consign Eclipse champion and six-time grade 1 winner Stellar Wind to the 2017 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Delay in Southern Hemisphere results reveals 100th winner actually occurred Aug. 9
Stakes winner Hunt Crossing will be relocated from West Virginia to the Indiana Stallion Station near Anderson, Ind., for the 2018 breeding season.
The hypothesis here is that there has never been a horse bred in North America that has achieved greater influence as a broodmare sire of line-founding stallions than the son of Bold Ruler (Nasrullah—Miss Disco, by Discovery).
Dual classic winner Smarty Jones will return to Uruguay in September for the 2017 Southern Hemisphere breeding season as part of a multi-year agreement with Calumet Farm near Lexington, where he's stood since 2016.
Finest City, reigning champion female sprinter, will be offered at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Sale Nov. 6 in Lexington. She will be consigned by trainer Ian Kruljac on behalf of owner Seltzer Thoroughbreds.
Wildwood Farm's freshman sire Ghaaleb got his first winner from his first starter Aug. 15 when appropriately named Ghaaleb's Winner took a five-furlong maiden special weight at Fairmount Park by 3 1/4 lengths.
Alternation, who earned more than $1 million racing for Donnie Von Hemel and Pin Oak Stable, was flattered with his first winner when the first-time starter My Heart Awakens took a maiden special weight at Emerald Downs Aug. 13.
The 65th annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing Aug. 13 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., closed out with an update and a rally cry for legislation that would overhaul oversight of horse racing’s drug testing and medication rules.
The Jockey Club is projecting a 2018 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 21,500.
Take Charge Indy, the 2012 Florida Derby winner, can boast his first black-type winner after the Kelly Breen-trained Take Charge Paula survived a speed duel and drew off to win the White Clay Creek Stakes at Delaware Park Aug. 9.
Buffum. Bridgetown get first winners on debut at Delaware Park and Fingers Lakes Aug. 9. Buff's in Love and Lover's Leap also were the first starters for the sires.
Fireworks lit up the sales ring during the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, with big prices from progeny of several different sires.
A War Front colt kept the fireworks going late during the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale when he was purchased by representatives of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation for $995,000.
A Strong Mandate filly from the consignment of Baccari Bloodstock kept the strong returns coming near the end of the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale when she sold for $825,000.
The seven-figure barrier was breached during the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale when a colt by Orb sold to Kerri Radcliffe for $1 million.
A dark bay filly by Orb that is a half sister to graded stakes winner Corfu sold to Solis/Litt Bloodstock on behalf of LNJ Foxwoods after bringing a final bid of $750,000 during the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.
A dark bay filly by the late, influential sire Scat Daddy raised the standard during the opening portion of the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale when she sold to Kerri Radcliffe for $800,000.
A bay colt by champion and Darley sire Animal Kingdom paced the early action during the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale when he elicited a final bid of $750,000.
Darley's Medaglia d'Oro led by average during the first night of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale Aug. 7, with two horses out of the three offered selling for an average of $725,000.
Gainesway and Whisper Hill will join Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, and Robert LaPenta in racing the son of Gainesway's three-time champion sire Tapit before he eventually retires to stud.
Bluewater Sales will offer 2015 Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse at the Fasig-Tipton November sale as a racing/broodmare prospect.
Bronx Beauty, who made her second start off a maiden win at Penn National for trainer Anthony Margotta Jr. and owner Two W Stable, made a bold run to conquer a six-horse field of juvenile fillies in the Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Park Aug. 5.
Can the Man and Noble Mission each have one yearling cataloged. Cairo Prince, Fed Biz, Strong Mandate, and Verrazano all have two on offer, while Will Take Charge leads the way with 10.
Top international sire Galileo reached a new milestone Aug. 5, when To Eternity won the British Stallion Studs EBF Chalice Stakes at Newmarket to bring the stallion's black-type stakes winner tally to 250.
American Cleopatra, the grade 1-placed full sister to Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh, is in foal to Uncle Mo, but owner and breeder Ahmed Zayat is still undecided on whether her racing career is over.
Much like in his racing career, Quality Road’s stud exploits reflect the versatility of both his wide-ranging female family and his sire.
Grade 1 winner Tom's Tribute has moved to Rancho San Miguel for his third breeding season under the ownership of DP Racing and will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000.
Ken Wilkins will join the team at Adena Springs Kentucky in the role of business and stallion operations, effective immediately.
Leonard Lavin, a longtime force in Thoroughbred racing who built Glen Hill Farm into a nationally prominent racing and breeding outfit, died Aug. 2 at the age of 97.
With a minor upset over favored Kimberlea K in the $100,000 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Stakes Aug. 2 at Del Mar, Show It N Moe It became the first stakes winner for her sire, Grace Upon Grace.
Steadily producing California sire Decarchy was euthanized late last week due to complications from laminitis.
Recent South American graded stakes produced the 50th black-type stakes winners for expatriate Van Nistelrooy, July 30 in Uruguay, and Pennsylvania sire Jump Start, Aug. 1 in Argentina.
Cormac Breathnach fills at Airdrie the same job he held at Adena Springs Kentucky.
Fee of $3,500 set for son of Dominus
Sam Shepard, who was nominated for an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and 11 Obie Awards, and who also bred stakes-winning Thoroughbreds, died at his Midway, Ky., farm July 27 from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Alberta freshman sire got his first stakes winner three weeks after his first starter. Of his 10 first-crop foals, seven have started since July 7.
Five years after he dusted a group of sophomores in the Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1), Paynter triumphed again on Haskell Day via Dark Artist, a 2-year-old filly who gave him his first win as a stallion, at Monmouth Park July 30.
Ellas My Love crushed a field of 2-year-old Ontario-bred maidens in the fifth race at Woodbine July 29 to give his Canadian-bred, grade 1-winning sire Pool Play his first victory as a stallion.
A day in the life of 2016 Broodmare of the Year Leslie's Lady, dam of Beholder.
Graydar, a son of Unbridled's Song and a winner of five of six races, including three graded stakes races, had his first winner as a stallion July 27 when Into the Gray led at every point in a one-mile maiden special weight at Presque Isle Downs.
Y chromosome research shows common link among male lines of most modern breeds
Florida freshman sire Anthony's Cross got his first winner July 25 at Indiana Grand Race Course where his daughter Crossed won by 5 1/4 lengths in her racing debut.
Freshman sire San Pablo was represented by his first winner July 25 at Finger Lakes, when Timothy P. Murphy's Tender Boy edged out victory by a neck at first asking.
Lane's End Farm announced July 25 that prominent stallion City Zip has been euthanized at age 19 due to chronic foot problems.
Spendthrift Australia will host multiple stallion parades this year on Friday, Aug. 18, and Saturday, Aug. 19.
Ontario-bred Glamanation, winner of the July 23 Shady Well Stakes at Woodbine, is the first black-type stakes winner for her sire, Adena Springs Kentucky stallion Point of Entry.
