31/10/2024. TDN BREEDER’S CUP SPECIAL EDITION, NOVEMBER 1, 2024 – DEL MAR // Stallion Share in Flightline Brings $2.5 Million, Tops Keeneland Championship Sale, Justify’s Daughter of Damson Makes Winning Debut at Dundalk… by TDN

 

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Stallion Share in Flightline Brings $2.5 Million, Tops Keeneland Championship Sale

by Steve Sherack & J.N. Campbell  DEL MAR, CA — A stallion share (2.5% fractional interest) in undefeated 2022 Horse of the Year and GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Flightline (Tapit) brought $2.5 million from Jane… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Justify’s Daughter of Damson Makes Winning Debut at Dundalk

Lynne Lyons’s hitherto untried €155,000 Keeneland September graduate Ethical Code (Justify), a Ger Lyons-trained daughter of G1 Phoenix Stakes heroine Damson (Ire) (Entrepreneur {GB}), failed to sell when stalling on the €300,000 mark at Arqana’s… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Classic Hero Metropolitan Retires to Haras d’Etreham for 2025

This year’s Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Metropolitan (Fr) will begin his stallion career at Haras d’Etreham next season, the stud announced on Wednesday. He will stand for a fee of €15,000, with a small… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Maryland Will Run Consolidated Racing Schedule In 2025

The Maryland Racing Commission has approved a 2025 racing schedule that calls for Laurel and Pimlico to race just 120 days in 2025. The dates were approved at an Oct. 28 racing commission meeting. The story… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Grade I Maker’s Mark Mile Winner Shirl’s Speight to Stand at Darby Dan in 2025

Shirl’s Speight, a Grade I winner by Speightstown out of GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Perfect Shirl (Perfect Soul {Ire}), will stand the upcoming breeding season at Darby Dan Farm, the farm… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Irish National Stud Stalwart Invincible Spirit Retired from Covering Duties

Invincible Spirit (Ire), the sire of 22 individual Group 1 winners worldwide, has been retired from covering duties, the Irish National Stud announced on Wednesday. Now 27, Invincible Spirit was a fixture on the Irish National… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

GISW and BC Classic Contender Tapit Trice to Gainesway Upon Retirement

GI Blue Grass Stakes winner Tapit Trice (Tapit–Danzatrice, by Dunkirk) will return to his birthplace, Gainesway Farm, to enter stud upon his retirement from racing, the Central Kentucky nursery and stud farm announced Tuesday afternoon…. [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Frankel’s Delius Headed Down Under After Australian Partners Pay Record 1,300,000gns At Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale

Group winner Delius (GB) (Frankel {GB}), third in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris this year, brought a record 1,300,000gns to take the lead late during the second session of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale…. [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Havana Grey Fee Listed as Private and with Height Restrictions for Mares in 2025

Havana Grey (GB), one of the most exciting young stallions in Europe, has had his fee made private as he prepares to stand his seventh season at Whitsbury Manor Stud in 2025. The sire of the… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

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