Stallion News

Izvestia · Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:59 pm

Don't know the exact reason, but the vet said it was riskier. More blood possibly?
It's really too bad she passed on him, because he was quite lovely and would've made a nice hunter.

Starine · Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:40 pm

Bold Chieftain’s first crop of runners are now yearlings, and Ellen Jackson is excited by what she’s seen.

Jackson, a trainer, runs Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville, Calif., where Bold Chieftain stands.

“When you’ve got a stallion who stamps himself, it’s a really good sign,” Jackson said. “He stamps them. They’re like him – big, black and beautiful. Everybody I talk to has said they’re the best-looking foal they have. When people come to see his foals, I just take them out to the pasture and I can point them out with no problem.”

Bold Chieftain successfully covered 42 mares in his first year as a stallion and 38 last year. Jackson said that he is booked to 20 mares for this season, but that the number will increase because “people in California don’t usually book early like people in Kentucky.”

It will still be more than a year before the first Bold Chieftain babies reach the races.

“With his [route] pedigree, I don’t expect a lot of precocious debut winners,” Jackson said.

But she expects solid runners like their sire, who ran 47 times, including 37 times in stakes, and earned more than $1 million. He won every year from age 2 through 8 and ran second in his final outing, his only start at age 9.

Bold Chieftain won 14 stakes, including the Grade 2 San Francisco Mile, and he was second in six graded stakes. He won the California Cup Classic twice and the Sunshine Millions Classic.

Bold Chieftain won on dirt, turf and synthetics and in the mud, and won stakes at seven different California racetracks – Santa Anita, Del Mar, Golden Gate Fields, Bay Meadows, Pleasanton, Sacramento and Fresno.“Ninety percent of the people bringing mares to him are racetrackers,” said Jackson. “They know how sound and honest he was.”

http://www.drf.com/news/premium/golden- ... cond-start

BaroqueAgain1 · Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:56 pm

He was one of my favorites, and he is an extremely handsome horse.

second_glance · Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:49 pm

Cross-posted:

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Acadiana · Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:55 pm

Life At Zen wrote:
Izvestia wrote:It's very risky. I had a friend looking an 8-year-old OTTB that was still complete, but she passed on him because of the risk and cost of cutting him at that age.
8 shouldn't be an issue in regards to risk. I've seen stallions gelded at 15. 20+ yeah, I can see an issue with. But under 10? Did the horse have any issues that would've made it complicated?

It's due to blood loss and higher chance of infection plus slower healing. It's definitely not impossible, just a higher chance of something going wrong.

BlackCat · Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:13 pm

Repent is heading to Trinidad.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... o-trinidad

second_glance · Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:18 pm

Naylee Farm has leased Brother Derek from Airdrie to stand for the 2014 season in WV:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ylee-in-wv

Northport · Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:51 pm

Isn't it a bit late in the season to lease out a stallion? Or has he already been in WV?

second_glance · Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:57 pm

Northport wrote:Isn't it a bit late in the season to lease out a stallion? Or has he already been in WV?

Given the weather this year, probably not.

Stormin Wife · Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:29 pm

Anyone know if Take Charge Indy has any confirmed pregnancies?

serenassong · Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:37 am

Stormin Wife wrote:Anyone know if Take Charge Indy has any confirmed pregnancies?

Yes, along with Paynter and Overanalyze according to Winstar
http://www.winstarfarm.com/articles/1st ... ar+Farm%29

tres borrachos · Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:43 am

second_glance wrote:Not really news, but Frances J. Karon is in Ireland, visited Ballylinch today, and met 30-year-old Soviet Star -- son of Nureyev and a fine, fine racehorse in his own right -- and his buddy.

Now THAT is a great photo!

Sheepish · Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:18 pm

Don't know if anyone else posted it, but I just saw that Al Khali was listed as standing in NY, at Keane Stud Operations.

BaroqueAgain1 · Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:01 pm

That's odd...because there was an allowance race this last weekend in Florida won by Old Time Hockey that was taken off turf. I caught a glimpse of the names originally entered before all the scratches...and Al Khali was one of the scratches.
?

mariasmon · Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:18 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:That's odd...because there was an allowance race this last weekend in Florida won by Old Time Hockey that was taken off turf. I caught a glimpse of the names originally entered before all the scratches...and Al Khali was one of the scratches.
?

He supposedly breezed this morning.

Sheepish · Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:22 pm

Dunno, he's just listed on Bloodhorses Stallion registry.

Private Thoughts · Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:22 pm

Not sure if this has been posted.

Some nice pictures of Chelokee and one of his yearling sons at the University of Arizona and some other horses. He looks really good but wow that foot in the photo of him laying down looks scarey.

http://espn.go.com/sports/horse/photos/ ... to-gallery

Izvestia · Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:37 pm

Didn't he have an injury that was REALLY bad?

Life At Zen · Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:49 pm

Izvestia wrote:Didn't he have an injury that was REALLY bad?

VERY bad, life-threatening bad.

serenassong · Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:46 pm

Life At Zen wrote:
Izvestia wrote:Didn't he have an injury that was REALLY bad?
VERY bad, life-threatening bad.

Indeed, could have gone the other way very easily.