Veteran sire Awesome Again this week moved into the top 25 on this year's general sire list behind the victory by Something Awesome in the $1,150,000 Charles Town Classic Stakes (G2) April 21 at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.
This year, Take Charge Indy and Poseidon's Warrior have sons that will try to pull a Kentucky Derby (G1) hat trick for second-crop sires.
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.
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.
Texas-based owner and breeder Ed Few, who campaigned multiple stakes winners like Front Nine and Lady Mallory, died April 8 at his Glorianna Farms home in Jasper, Texas surrounded by family. He was 79.
The 8-year-old son of Galileo is currently in quarantine in Kentucky but is scheduled to arrive in Ireland May 6 and will start covering immediately.
Strings of Life won her debut going five furlongs April 18 by half a length.
Son of Danehill was one of the leading sires in England and a top broodmare sire.
Magnum Moon's victory in the Arkansas Derby (G1) not only propelled the 3-year-old colt to the top of the points leaderboard for the Kentucky Derby , but it also moved him to fifth on the lifetime list of top earners by Malibu Moon.
What this says, of course, (duh!) is that good horses run in Kentucky Derbys, and—Derby accomplishments or not, and industry woes or not—there are stunning purses to be won before and after, and even more spectacular opportunities at stud.
Donegal Racing, a leading Thoroughbred ownership syndicate, announced today that it will be donating the proceeds of two of its 2018 seasons to Keen Ice to Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.
In one of the first black-type stakes for 2-year-olds of 2018, Hustle Up pulled away to a 7 1/2-length lead in the Copper Top Futurity for New Mexico-breds at Sunland Park April 15.
Swettenham Stud has announced the son of Galileo (IRE) will stand in Victoria this spring.
Cajun Breeze had his first winner when his son Cajun Firecracker drew away to a two-length victory in a Gulfstream Park maiden special weight race April 13, with his daughter also finishing second to give the stallion an exacta.
Good Magic brings the Stonestreet dream to fruition
Sire is multiple group 1 winner who competed in top company in four countries.
After racing concluded April 7, rising top-10 sire Curlin has his best chance of being represented by a Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) winner with four potential contenders this year, a new feat for the son of Smart Strike.
Lemons Forever, winner of the 2006 Kentucky Oaks (G1) and a multiple grade 1 producer, added a new accomplishment to her résumé April 11 when she was named the 2017 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders.
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.
The multiple graded stakes winner and son of Lemon Drop Kid earned more than $1.5 million during his racing career.
Chester and Mary Broman were named New York's outstanding breeders for the second straight year and fifth time overall and Mind Your Biscuits, the 2016 New York-bred horse of the year, was once again the voters' pick for the top honors in 2017.
Jeff Blea of the AAEP participated on a panel on the appropriateness of bisphosphonate use in race horses, especially in young horses, during the animal welfare forum April 4 at the ARCI conference on equine welfare and racing integrity.
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.
A gallery of stallions from across the country.
Sunland Derby (G3) winner Runaway Ghost topped a trio of black-type winners for Adena Spring Kentucky's 18-year-old stallion Ghostzapper March 25 at Sunland Park.
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.
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.
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.
Hustle Up became the first winner for New Mexico stallion Abstraction when the 2-year-old gelding was an easy winner March 24 at Sunland Park.
While there aren't many sale toppers under her shedrow, and the majority of the horses she has in training are owned by small owners or breeders from Florida, trainer Kathleen O'Connell loves working to develop the young horses who come her way.
Juddmonte Farms' remarkable mare produced five group 1 winners and champion sire Dansili.
The road to this year's American classic races has done much to enhance Malibu Moon's reputation as a reliable sire of top performers.
Warren "Spud" Williamson, who with his wife, Alyce, bred and raced such top runners as millionaire Nashoba's Key, multiple graded winner Nashoba's Gold, graded stakes winners Tiz Elemental and Texas Ryano, died March 16. He was 89.
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.
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.
Recalling Thunder Gulch's sophomore run in 1995.
Dual classic winner and retired leading sire Thunder Gulch died March 19 at age 26, euthanized due to the infirmities of old age at Coolmore America's Ashford Stud.
Bayakoa Stakes (G2) winner Majestic Heat has been retired from racing after a fifth-place finish in Santa Anita Park's Santa Margarita Stakes (G1) it was announced March 19 by owner-racing manager Madeline Auerbach.
Experts advised that with changing standards for work visas reducing available foreign workers at the track and farms, horsemen should consider new approaches to welcome and retain a new workforce.
Three-year-old colts racing toward the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) provided a stakes double for Darley sire Medaglia d'Oro March 10, when his sons Bolt d'Oro and Enticed took top Derby preps.
Darley stallion Elusive Quality, sire of such grade 1 winners as Smarty Jones, Raven's Pass, and Quality Road, succumbed to the infirmities of old age and has been euthanized at age 25, the farm announced March 14.
Clay Whitham said part of the excitement his family enjoyed in campaigning two-time champion older female Bayakoa was the thought of what was to come when she joined their broodmare band.
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.
Look to be smooth, athletic, big-moving horses
Progeny by Uncaptured, He's Had Enough, and Central Banker taking to training
Fourth-leading sire of class by yearling average
Many progeny have their grandsire's athleticism and balance
Adena Springs' multiple grade 1 winner Shaman Ghost has been relocated from Tommy Town Thoroughbreds to Terry Lovingier's Lovacres Ranch near Warner Springs, Calif., it was announced March 10.
Castleton Lyons has announced the names of five semi-finalist titles competing for the 2017 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award.
Grade 2 winner and veteran sire Mula Gula died March 3 in Bryan, Texas according to owner Steven Gula.
