stallion prospect
Group 1-winning sprinter Reserve Bank has been sold to Botty's Bloodstock during the inaugural Inglis Bull Ring Sale. The son of Capitalist won the G1 The Goodwood. "I thought it was a great opportunity to secure a horse of his calibre," Aaron Bott said. "Reserve Bank was an outstanding racehorse with genuine top-class speed and was a Group 1 winner at three in open company, which is a rare accomplishment. "He possesses an impressive physique and is a grandson of influential sires Written Tycoon and Fastnet Rock. "I can't disclose...
Owner Paul Byrne and trainer Emmet Mullins have launched themselves head first into arguably their most exciting challenge yet with the purchase of recent G3 Gallinule Stakes runner-up Zia Zabel (Ghaiyyath), who the pair will try to make up into a National Hunt stallion. Whether it has been eye-watering gambles or plundering some of the game's biggest prizes, Byrne and Mullins have made a habit out of making the extraordinary look ordinary. Their latest big-race success had all the hallmarks of their combined genius when Soldier In Milan belied his...
Grade I winner Arthur's Ride (Tapit--Points of Grace, by Point Given) has retired from racing and will be offered as a stallion prospect--consigned by Lane's End--at the Keeneland November Sale, according to a Lane's End release Wednesday. Campaigned by Karl and Cathi Glassman's Glassman Racing, the grey enjoyed his best season in 2024, beginning with an allowance win by 7 1/2 lengths at Gulfstream. Later in the summer at Saratoga, he dazzled with a 12 ¾ length allowance win before taking the GI Whitney Stakes, where he defeated eventual Eclipse...
Jean-Louis Bouchard's Group 1 winner Feed The Flame (GB) (Kingman {GB}) has been retired for stallion duty trainer Pascal Bary confirmed to Paris Turf on Thursday. Stud plans are pending for the 4-year-old. Out of Knyazhna (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), the bay was bred by Monceaux, Lordship Stud and Clear Light SAS. Offered by Monceaux during the 2021 Arqana August Yearling Sale, he brought €270,000 from SAS Larrieu Gerard. A winner of his first two starts last spring with the former effort good for 'TDN Rising Star' status, Feed The Flame...
German Derby winner Sisfahan (Ger) (Isfahan {Ger}) will be sold as a wildcard during the upcoming Auctav National Hunt Sale on Friday, Sept. 20. Offered as lot 123B by OH Consignment, the Group 1 winner is being offered as a stallion prospect. From the family of Grade 1-winning jumper and sire Beaumec De Houelle (Fr) (Martaline {GB}), he is out of the winning mare Kendalee (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}). Other stallions set to sell on the platform include lot 1, Morpheus (GB), an Oasis Dream (GB) half-brother to Frankel (GB); and...
Owner Rick Dawson has changed his mind a few times regarding the career of his GI Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike (Keen Ice). One day he's coming back to the races, another day he's to be sold as a stallion prospect, the next day it's back to trying to get him back to the races. It's not that Dawson is indecisive, it's more a matter of him reacting to what is a constantly changing situation. "A few weeks before the sale we had made plans to ship him to Gulfstream...
Barely two months have passed since the Tattersalls December Sale ended the Park Paddocks sale year, and the curtain is already rising on the 2023 sales season, as the two-day February Sale, begins on Thursday. The catalogue features a diverse group of over 370 fillies and mares in/out-of-training, broodmares, colts and geldings in/out-of-training, yearlings, and 2-year-olds. One of the highlights of the sale is consigned by Barton Sales on behalf of Lady Ogden, lot 93. A striking bay son of the late Galileo (Ire), the Apr. 26-born juvenile is out...
Edited Press Release Flightline (Tapit-Feathered, by Indian Charlie), who is rated among the best racehorses in history after his momentous 19 1/4-length victory in the GI Pacific Classic this month, will enter stud as the property of a syndicate at Lane's End Farm upon the conclusion of his racing career. From a prolific Phipps family, Flightline was bred by Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm and is raced by Summer Wind in partnership with Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, West Point Thoroughbreds, and Woodford Racing. A $1-million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase from...
Last year's edition of the GI Preakness S. marked one of the best days of John Fradkin's life when Rombauer (Twirling Candy-Cashmere, by Cowboy Cal), a second-generation homebred for the California native and his wife Diane, took the second leg of the Triple Crown. Going off as the fifth choice, Rombauer stormed past favorites Medina Spirit (Protonico) and Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow) in the stretch to win by 3 1/2 lengths. It was the first Preakness victory for trainer Michael McCarthy and jockey Flavien Prat and the first Grade I win...
Mer de Glace (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}-Glacier Blue {Jpn}, by Sunday Silence) will stand in Turkey, Turkish Bloodstock tweeted on Mar. 30. The 2019 G1 Caulfield Cup hero was acquired by Keles Ekurisi, Ozcolak Stud and Olguner Ekurisi. Also a winner of three Group 3 races in his native land, the dark bay was bred by Northern Farm and raced by U Carrot Farm. His record stands at 19-8-2-5 and $3,950,825 in earnings. His third dam is European champion Blue Note (Fr) (Habitat), dam of fellow European highweight Blue Duster (Danzig)...