By winning the 7F G1 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes at Saratoga, Practical Joke became one of the most attractive stallion prospects from the 3-year-old crop. Attractive is a key word because he’s an outstanding looker to begin with. That was obvious to his breeders, Keith and Allen Crupper of Whispering Oaks, who sold him as … Continue reading Practical Joke will be sought after
Treasure Beach is a British-bred son of Galileo who won the 12F Irish Derby in 2011. Earlier, he’d lost the 12F Epsom Derby by a head, to Pour Moi, and later he won the G1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington at 10F. This bonafide European classic-distance horse is surprisingly among the leading first-crop sires in North … Continue reading Early success for Treasure Beach
You can sit on a bench between the paddock and the grandstand at Saratoga and observe a lot. That’s where I was last Wednesday morning before the races, sitting with Frances J. Karon, editor of North American Trainer magazine, when we saw owner Peter Brant, daughter in tow, walking back and forth about a dozen … Continue reading Saw Jim Gagliano and Eric Hamelback on the same day at Saratoga
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Brody’s Cause is one of two sons of Giant’s Causeway for the Albaugh Family Stable to enter stud in Kentucky in 2017. He’ll stand at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift for $12,500 and is priced attractively for a dual G1 winner. The other, Not This Time, was covered here. Dennis Albaugh, an Iowa billionaire, first got … Continue reading Brody’s Cause gives Albaugh another Giant in Kentucky
The Albaugh Family Stable was preparing to support its dual G1 winner Brody’s Cause at stud in ’17 at Spendthrift when the bad news hit that its promising classics contender for ’17, Not This Time, had hurt a tendon, was done, and would go to stud, too, at Taylor Made. Both colts are sons of … Continue reading Not This Time to stud for Albaugh Family Stable
