Spendthrift Farm mulls strong arguments for keeping its Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner in training or moving the son of Gun Runner on to a stallion career next year.
The July 25 Monmouth Oaks (G3) has proven to be doubly rewarding for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. as he won the race with My Miss Mo and purchased Bodacious Bay, the runner-up, who took the Cotillion (G1) in her first start for her new connections.
Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill buys Flag Day (Hip 79), dam of graded stakes winner Hall of Fame, a son of Gun Runner. The mare is in foal with a full sibling of Hall of Fame. She is part of the complete dispersal of Earle Mack's breeding stock.
Sovereignty appears a near certainty to earn a second Horse of the Year title, plus an Eclipse Award in the older dirt male category, based on voting results in the final National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll.
There were some lofty reputations on the line Oct. 30 in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), and in their own way, each of the main contenders emerged with credit. Their connections can look forward to what might happen in 2027.
Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill buys Flag Day (Hip 79), dam of graded stakes winner Hall of Fame, a son of Gun Runner. The mare is in foal with a full sibling of Hall of Fame. She is part of the complete dispersal of Earle Mack's breeding stock.
Eve of War, the dam of Pennsylvania Derby (G1) winner and Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) runner-up The Puma, leads the opening hours of the first session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in selling for $2.4 million Nov. 3.
Mountain View Farm announces Nov. 3 that Newgrange, a five-time graded stakes-winning son of Violence with more than $1 million in earnings, will join the stallion roster at the Gansevoort, N.Y., farm.