DRF | 6 years ago
The ebbs and flows of racing seasons will see certain stallions fluctuate when it comes to the quality and quantity of top performers in a given year. One of the stallions seeing the biggest boosts in 2017 was Malibu Moon, whose foals achieved a Beyer Speed Figure of 90 or higher on 26 more occasions than in 2016.
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Tags ‘Quality Road’
Sparkman: Quality Road back on track with solid 2016
DRF | 7 years ago
In a 14-race career that featured eight wins, four of them in particularly prestigious Grade 1s, Quality Road still managed sometimes to look like something of an underachiever. His raw speed and dominant brilliance were so readily apparent that his short-priced defeats in three other equally prestigious Grade 1s were seen as disappointments that, in the minds of some, raised questions about his temperament, questions that intensified after his refusal to enter the starting gate for the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
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Blofeld leads big Saturday for Quality Road
DRF | 8 years ago
Quality Road had a solid Saturday, siring three winners, including Blofeld, who got back to his winning ways in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap.
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First-crop classic types selling well at Keeneland
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 11 years ago
Claiborne first-crop sire Blame is enjoying a banner Keeneland September yearling sales. To date, his stats are dazzling for a horse whose yearlings were conceived on a $35,000 stud fee: 28 sold for a gross of $5,442,000, for an average price of $194,357 and a median of $192,500. The latter number is particularly impressive. Blame’s […]
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Jay Hovdey: Compiling Kentucky Derby lists a foolhardy exercise
DRF | 11 years ago
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Jay Hovdey
Barbara D. Livingston2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Uncle Mo is a good recent example of a 3-year-old who was prominent o...
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Blame, Quality Road top new sires weanling sales
DRF | 11 years ago
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The two Kentucky mixed sales in November offered buyers their first look at foals from a number of new sires.
Twenty-two fir...
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Keeneland November opens with a bang
European Racing | Thoroughbred Owner and Breeder Magazine | 12 years ago
Evans dispersal brings bumper returns with the first day of trade up 62% on 2010 more »
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American Graded Stakes Standings brought to you by Keeneland: A 1-in-2000 Chance
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 13 years ago
By Ray Paulick
Of the 79 individual winners of American Graded Stakes run thus far this year, only 16 of those top-class runners managed to duplicate that feat with at least one additional win at the highest level. Thus it is quite an achievement to br...
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Quality Road to Stand for $35,000; Lane’s End Sets 2011 Stud Fees
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 13 years ago
Lane’s End has established a $35,000 live foal stud fee, payable when the foal stands and nurses, for multiple Grade 1 winner Quality Road, whose career ended on a disappointing note when last of 12 runners in the $5-million Breeders’ Cup C...
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LANE’S END brings you The Weekender Pedigree: Great Value In Racing Class
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 13 years ago
By Frank Mitchell
If there was a question in anyone’s mind, recent transactions have once again proven that the ultimate arbiter of value is racing performance. Both the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale and the opening session of the Keeneland...
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Narrowing in on Horse of the Year
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 13 years ago
By Ray Paulick
I thought last year’s race for Horse of the Year was a tough one. Rachel Alexandra, the eventual winner in a vote that wasn’t even close, had accomplished things no filly had done in my lifetime. But, in my mind, she did them...
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Breeders’ Cup Thursday Notes: The Classic
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 13 years ago
PRESS RELEASE
An update on the contenders for the Breeders’ Cup Classic:
Zenyatta
The reigning Breeders’ Cup Classic champion left Barn 41 at 9:15 a.m. and was followed by hundreds of adoring fans, including owners Jerry and Ann Moss and tr...
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Breeders’ Cup Notes: BC Classic
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 13 years ago
PRESS RELEASE
An update on the runners in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, November 6th, post time 6:45 PM ET:
Zenyatta
The defending Breeders’ Cup Classic champion jogged on the training track at Hollywood Park at 9:00 PT Monday morning with exercise rider Steve Willard aboard ahead of her trip Tuesday morning aboard the Tex Sutton Forwarding charter carrying the [...]
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