Trending In TDN Europe:
1). Video: Alayna Cullen chats to Overbury Stud's Simon Sweeting about Le Brivido (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}).
“He’s from the first crop of Siyouni, one of the first to go to stud and with the Pivotal-Siyouni line, historically those two stallions started at inexpensive prices and they’ve gone on to really great things as stallions.” - Simon Sweeting
2). Feature: Melissa Steele sits down with Grangemore Stud's Guy O’Callaghan.
“Going to the sales can be a bit like getting your homework corrected. You just want to have done a good job and to get an A. The sales can be quite intense and often you only get 30 seconds of a show to prove it." - Guy O’Callaghan
Guy O'Callaghan | Image courtesy of Tattersalls
3). Feature: When one considers effective crossover sires between Europe and America, there are a few in particular that spring to mind like War Front (USA), Kitten’s Joy (USA) or Giant’s Causeway (USA). But Tapit (USA) is starting to make his mark as well.
"With 12 crops to race, Tapit has marked himself undoubtedly one of the great modern influences of the American breed. He has sired 25 Grade I winners and the earners of over US$153-million; 28 US$1-million-plus sales yearlings, and his sire sons are now truly hitting their strides." - Kelsey Riley
Tapit (USA) | Image courtesy of Gainesway
Trending In TDN America:
1). Video: Omaha Beach (USA) (War Front {USA}) has retired to Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky with impeccable credentials. TDN finds out more.
“Omaha Beach’s versatility as a race horse is really something we haven’t seen very much of in recent years. To win sprinting, and to win stretching out to a mile and an eighth, just speaks to this horse’s inherent ability. That’s one of the things that you really want to see with a stallion. It doesn’t matter what they asked him to do, when they lined up, he was able to do it.” - Ned Toffey
2). Feature: Lane’s End Farm boasts an impressive stallion roster, including a group of young stallions like Accelerate (USA), City of Light (USA), West Coast (USA), and Catalina Cruiser (USA).
“Catalina Cruiser is missing a Grade I, but we were talking about War Front and Distorted Humor, two leading sires that were brilliantly fast. Cruiser is fast, and that’s what stallions need, is speed. He has the looks to go with it and he has a great pedigree. For US$20,000, you can’t really go wrong.” - David Ingordo
Accelerate (USA) | Image courtesy of Lane's End Farm
3). Feature: Chris McGrath examines a selection of American-based stallions that had their first 2-year-old runners in 2019.
"While he was obviously an elite juvenile himself, it’s exciting that American Pharoah should already have laid down such a marker even before his foals venture into the kind of dirt Classic environment in which he himself excelled." - Chris McGrath
Lot 498 - American Pharoah x Leslie's Lady (filly) | Image courtesy of Keeneland
