European champion two-year-old and Epsom Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) hero City Of Troy (Justify) will retire to Coolmore’s base in Ireland after the Breeders’ Cup Classic (Gr 1, 10f) at Del Mar in three weeks’ time. The news was revealed by Coolmore on Saturday and ends any speculation he would stand alongside his sire... Read More

Multiple Group 1 winner Mustang Valley (Vanbrugh) has joined her mother in the Windsor Park broodmare band with both mother and daughter set to visit the operation’s exciting new shuttler Paddington (Siyouni).  The top-quality mare carried 60 kilograms to victory in the open mile at Tauranga on Saturday in what was to have been her... Read More

Emirates Park have announced the death of their 2005 Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Al Maher (Danehill) at the age of 23.  Bred by the stud’s founder Hussain Nasser Abdullah Lootah from a daughter of the ‘blue hen’ mare Dancing Show (Nijinksy), Al Maher would go on to become one of Emirates Park’s most... Read More

Grangewilliam Stud announced on Sunday that the farm’s stalwart sire Zed (Zabeel) has died after suffering a bout of colic. “Zed was a massive part of our family. He was loved by all staff at Grangewilliam, past and present,” Mark Corcoran wrote on the farm’s Facebook page. “Zed has been such an easy horse and... Read More

Haras d’Etreham have announced Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) will not be returning to their French-based stud, instead remaining in the southern hemisphere at Cambridge Stud. The Tamahere-based stud have acquired the full breeding rights to the son of Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj), who has sired 24 individual stakes winners in total, headed by Sydney Cup (Gr 1,... Read More