Canada's leading sire with earnings of close to $14,000,000 U.S, Souper Speedy, is deceased at 15 years old due to a paddock accident.
Breeding
Additional information on provincial and state foal crops for 2024 will be released later this month by The Jockey Club.
The $800,000 allocated to the Mare Programs has been exhausted as Ontario breeders took full advantage once again.
The move is an attempt to reverse the downward trend of foal production and give breeders more reasons to breed for sales and racing.
A Woodbine Oaks winner is suddenly worth a lot more money and chances are they will have success in the breeding shed.
The six-year-old Tall Oaks Farm champion, who earned over $1 million in his career, will stand at Colebrook Farms in Uxbridge, ON.
Ontario breeder Susan Foreman bought Unostrike, a half-sister to Rich Strike, at the Keeneland January Sale through the Mare Purchase Program.
A product of the Mare Recruitment Program, the fast filly set a new track record to kick off what looks to be a very promising career.
Genetic variants can be assessed to determine which may be desirable for fitness, health and performance, and to help detect gene doping.
This year's catalogue includes a diversified group of horses of racing age, yearlings, broodmares and weanlings.
A total of $300,000 has been allocated to the program for 2021 in order to assist Thoroughbred breeders throughout the province.
Stallions, breeding mares and foals arriving at Canadian farms, which keep human numbers in one area to a minimum and sanitizing to the max.
