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Norfolk Stakes winner Street Hero has been retired from horse racing and will stand at Tom Simon’s Vinery near Lexington for $12,500.
The 2-year-old Kentucky-bred son of the graded stakes-placed Summer Squall mare Squall Linda, Street Hero, has won or placed in all his 6 horse races. In his last start, Street Hero finished third behind Midshipman in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last October at Santa Anita Park.
After the Breeders’ Cup, Street Hero underwent surgery for a fractured knee.
Street Hero was trained by Myung Kwon Cho and retires with earnings of $419,360.
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Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin will stand stud at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky. William Farish announced Friday the richest racehorse in North America will become a stallion at his Versailles farm, where Curlin’s sire, Smart Strike, is already a breeding star.
Curlin will command a stud fee of $75,000 his opening year, half what Smart Strike receives and $10,000 more than the stud fee for Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown.
Race horse Curlin has won 11 of 16 career starts, plus a pair of second and third place finishes. Included in Curlin’s wins are the Preakness Stakes, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Stephen Foster Handicap and Dubai World Cup. His career winnings of $10.5 million have passed Cigar to make him North America’s richest racehorse in history.
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Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown has settled in at his new home at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky over the weekend after being shipped from New York.
The 3-year-old colt Big Brown’s horse racing career ended last month when he injured his right front foot while working out at Aqueduct. Big Brown retired with 7 wins in 8 career starts, including victories in the first two legs of the Triple Crown before finishing last in the Belmont Stakes.
Race horse Big Brown’s initial stallion fee for 2009 has been set at $65,000. That number could change in the future depending on how his offspring do on the track.
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Mare Better Than Honour, dam of back-to-back Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and champion Rags to Riches, set a world Thoroughbred auction record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect November 2 when her price soared to $14 million during the Fasig-Tipton November select mixed sale in Lexington, Kentucky.
Southern Equine’s Michael Moreno, who owned 70% of the 2007 broodmare of the year, bid $14 million to keep her–a price that eclipsed the previous broodmare record by $3.5 million. John Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms had owned the other 30%.
“Best mare in the world,” he said. “Who knows. You don’t plan this kind of thing. It evolves.”
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Shadwell Stable’s Daaher, winner of last year’s Cigar Mile Handicap (gr. I) and most recently finished third in Aqueduct’s Stymie Handicap on March 1, has been retired from racing due to “torn and injured ligaments in his right front ankle”. He retires with 4 wins and 2 thirds from 9 starts.
Daaher will enter stud for the 2008 season at Shadwell’s Nashwan Stud, the stallion division of Shadwell Farm, in Lexington, Kentucky.
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By GREG MELIKOV
There are so many Breeders’ Cup races this weekend I didn’t know where to start. I began handicapping last week to get a jump on the 11 races spread over two days beginning Friday at Monmouth Park.
Ah, then the changes began: injuries, withdrawals, switching races, etc. It’s not easy being a horseplayer in the fall when the Breeders’ Cup rolls around.
I’ve had some pretty awful years handicapping the event. Several years ago I suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune, selecting only one of eight winners.
My best year came in 1999 when I covered the Breeders’ Cup at Gulfstream Park in South Florida, my old stomping grounds. I had several winners, a couple of exactas and a trifecta.
That was then and this is now. So I’m going to concentrate on what I consider the two most competitive races.
There are some so wide open you better hope Lady Luck is in your corner. For instance, the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at a mile on Friday had the most pre-entries that included four 2-year-olds that never ran on the grass and seven that had three or fewer outings.
I liked Old Man Buck because of his two wins on the grass. But trainer Ken McPeek opted for the Juvenile even though the son of Hold That Tiger ran sixth in his only trip on dirt.
The three top horses, all with turf experience, appear to be…
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The 2007 Breeder’s Cup World Thoroughbred Championships is on October 26-27.
However, with the latest horse racing warfare merely a few weeks away, it seems there are quite a few horses who will miss horse racing’s biggest event yet.
The 2007 Breeder’s Cup World Thoroughbred Championships will be at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey to […]
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2005 Kentucky Derby winner, Giacomo, has been retired to Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Farm near Midway, Ky. The 4-year-old son of Holy Bull will stand for a live foal fee of $12,500.
Owned by Jerry and Anne Moss and trained by John Shirreffs, Giacomo won three of 16 career starts, with two seconds, and five third-place finishes while earning $2,537,316.
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Owners of Breeders Cup Classic runner-up and champion 3-year-old Bernardini announced his retirement two days after finishing second in the $5 million race, the was retired Monday and will stand at stud at Sheik Mohammed’s DarleyFarm.
Bernardini was the leading Horse of the Year contender entering the Classic at Churchill Downs as heavy favoriteand fresh from a six straight win including the Preakness, the Travers and the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
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Grade I winner Borrego will enter stud in 2007 at Wintergreen Stallion Station near Midway, Ky., and will stand for $20,000 live foal.
Meanwhile, Man o’ War Stakes (gr. IT) at Belmont Park winner, Cacique, will enter stud in 2007 at Khalid Abdullah’s Banstead Manor Stud near Newmarket, England.
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