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By Frances J. Karon With her victory in the G1 Ashland S. at Keeneland on Saturday, Commonwealth Stable’s Virginia-bred Out for a Spin became the 68th black-type winner, and 10th at Grade/Group 1 level, for her sire Hard Spun (by Danzig), who stands at Darley for $40,000. She’s the seventh stakes winner (non-restricted or better) … Continue reading Spinning an Oaks tale
By Sid Fernando Darley, like many large Kentucky-based stud farms, has satellites in regional breeding programs. In New York it’s Sequel Stallions, where Darley has now retired the multiple G1-winning Bernardini colt Alpha to stand his first season for $8,500 in 2015, alongside the Darley-owned Desert Party and Emcee, both at $7,500. Alpha in New … Continue reading Dual G1 winner Alpha perfect for NY
By Elaine Belval Darley at Jonabell announced in early October that leading Australian sire Lonhro would be standing the 2012 season at Darley in one of the first reverse-shuttles from Australia. Lonhro represents a truly Australian sireline. His sire is the great Australian racehorse Octagonal. For those who have never seen him run, Octagonal was … Continue reading Lonhro’s Invasion
By Sid Fernando Elaine Belval wrote about Flashy Bull, his sire line, and his first Graded stakes winner, Flashy Lassie, in the post below this. He is one of several freshman sires out of the box quick, with three individual winners to date. Flashy Bull’s first winner was the filly Princesa Caramelo, who won in … Continue reading Freshman sires off mark
By Elaine Belval Cape Cross, a son of the Danzig sire Green Desert out of champion juvenile filly Park Appeal, has been in the news quite a lot over the last few years. First there was his great filly Ouija Board, winner of two Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf races. And then in 2009, … Continue reading Cape Cross puts up numbers
By Sid Fernando First-crop European sire Iffraaj, a prolific sire of winners with 31 to date, went to the next level today when son Wootton Bassett took the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Gran Criterium at Longchamp over 1400 meters (about 7 furlongs) to become his first winner at the highest level. Wootton Bassett is now … Continue reading Prolific Iffraaj gets quality today
By Sid Fernando It was a big weekend for the Darley sires. Truth be told, it was also a big weekend for the Juddmonte (Oasis Dream et al) and Coolmore sires (Danehill Dancer’s Italian Oaks winner), too, but we’re limited in space and are going to highlight only three Darley horses today because Elusive Quality … Continue reading Big weekend for Darley sires
By Jack Werk If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend that you read the eMatings “Stallion of the Week” column each week at eMatings.com. It’s usually out each Monday night from now to the end of the Northern Hemisphere breeding season. Click here to read this week’s, which is on Darley’s sensational Street Cry, … Continue reading The Cry Heard ‘Round the World!