Blood-Horse Breeding News

March 2008 - Posts

• Improvement Program Approved in Canada
  Mar 28 2008, 04:44 PM

  The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) unveiled the 2008 Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP), following approval of the Ontario Racing Commission. Valued at $9.6 million, the TIP includes increases in breeders award distributions... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Millionaire Somethinaboutlaura Retired
  Mar 26 2008, 10:00 AM

  Somethinaboutlaura, a California-bred millionaire, has been retired from racing. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Rags to Riches Retired
  Mar 24 2008, 02:13 PM

  It was announced March 24 that 2007 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winner and 2007 champion 3-year-old filly Rags to Riches has been retired from racing and will head to Ashford Stud where she will be bred to leading sire Giant's Causeway. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• It's No Joke Contract Focus of Lawsuit
  Mar 21 2008, 08:44 PM

  Stan Fulton and Stonewall Farm Stallions are in a dispute over the 2006 sale of It's No Joke, with both sides saying the other breached conditions of a $1.1-million sale contract. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Derby Runner-Up Strodes Creek Dead
  Mar 21 2008, 11:13 AM

  Strokes Creek, who placed in both the 1994 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Belmont Stakes (gr. I), was euthanized after breaking a leg in a paddock accident in South Korea. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Coolmore Adds Two to Australian Roster
  Mar 19 2008, 09:51 AM

  Now that Equine Influenza has been trampled out of Australia, experts and breeders alike are predicting the broodmare owners of Australia will hit the stallion farms en masse. This follows the drama of last season where broodmare coverings were down 17... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Agnes Gold's First Foal
  Mar 18 2008, 03:55 PM

  Agnes Gold, a Japanese grade II winner by Sunday Silence, was represented by his first foal from his initial North American crop when a colt out of the Alphabet Soup mare Call Out was born March 7. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Kingmambo Back in Action
  Mar 17 2008, 01:29 PM

  Lane's End stallion Kingmambo, who missed several days of breeding because of a neurological problem, returned to action March 15 at the Versailles, Ky., farm. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Songster Back in Training
  Mar 14 2008, 02:46 PM

  Darley stallion Songster will be taken out of stud duty and put back into training due to undetermined fertility issues. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Deputy Commander Through for the Year
  Mar 14 2008, 09:04 AM

  Deputy Commander, third on this year's California sires list by progeny earnings, will not cover any more mares this year because of a health issue. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Kingmambo Ready to Return to Stud Duty
  Mar 13 2008, 08:59 PM

  Major sire Kingmambo, who has missed breeding time beforehand because of a neurological problem, is expected to return to the breeding shed this weekend or the first part of next week after being out of action for a week. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Half-Brother to Pyro Born
  Mar 13 2008, 12:07 PM

  A half-brother to classics contender Pyro was born March 12 at 10:15 p.m. at the Winchell family's Corinthia near Lexington. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Florida Stallion Gibson County Dead
  Mar 12 2008, 07:59 PM

  Gibson County, one of the surprise first-crop stallions of 2006, died the morning of March 12 of an apparent heart attack. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Pyro to Darley at End of Career
  Mar 09 2008, 07:04 PM

  Pyro, winner of the March 8 Louisiana Derby (gr. II), will stand at Sheikh Mohammed's Darley operation in Lexington upon completion of his racing career. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments

• Great Florida Broodmare Sultry Sun Dead
  Mar 09 2008, 10:40 AM

  Sultry Sun, a two-time Florida Broodmare of the Year, has been euthanized because of complications from the infirmities of old age. Read More... Posted by BloodHorse.com - Breeding with no comments