Blue Prize (Arg)

Argentine champion and GI Breeders' Cup Distaff heroine Blue Prize (Arg) (Pure Prize--Blues for Sale {Arg}), by Not For Sale {Arg}) died at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital on Monday after complications from foaling, according to Frank Taylor, the Vice President of Boarding Operations at Taylor Made Farms, where the 13-year-old mare has been boarded for her entire breeding career. "She had complications from a hemorrhage," Taylor said. "She had a foal [by Life Is Good] about a week ago." According to Taylor, her latest filly is doing well....

Ignacio Correas IV, a multiple-generational horseman who grew up in his native Argentina and found success at North American racetracks as a trainer, is set to retire from the game by Dec. 1, according to a Friday article by Marcus Hersh of the Daily Racing Form. According to Equibase, Correas collected 297 wins and more than $20 million in purses during a U.S. career that began in 2010. Correas won 23 graded stakes, including consecutive top level scores in 2019 when stable star Blue Prize (Arg) (Pure Prize) took the...

Returning to New York from a winter working in Louisiana, the first since his emigration, Ignacio Correas appeared literally a shadow of his former self. His former vet came from the old country and found that Correas, this blueblood of the Argentinian Turf, had lost around 30 lbs. "What are you doing here?" his visitor asked. "Why don't you go back? I mean, look at you." "Don't worry," Correas replied. "I'm going to be okay." Now, 23 years later, he sits outside the Keeneland barn that houses the leading turf...

5th-ELP, $120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5f, 1:18 p.m. The first foal out of MGISW Blue Prize (Arg) (Pure Prize), who sold for $5m to OXO Equine out of the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars Sale, PLAYBACK (Into Mischief) hails from a successful South American family including her dam's half-sister, Argentinian champion older mare Blue Stripe (Arg). Further back in the family is GSW/G1SP Far Away Love (Arg) (Violence). An OXO Equine homebred, Playback enters off a best-of-four work, going five furlongs in 1:01 3/5 for trainer Paulo Lobo. Opposing...