Great Hill Farm

Bayern (Offlee Wild--Alittlebitearly, by Thunder Gulch), winner of the 2014 GI Breeders' Cup Classic, died Sunday after complications following emergency hernia surgery, according to a tweet from Great Hill Farm, which had stood the 15-year-old stallion in South Korea since 2022. "We fought alongside him day and night, exhausting every possible medical intervention and providing intensive care in a desperate struggle to save his life," the tweet read. "Heartbreakingly, his condition did not improve and we were ultimately left with no choice but to make the agonizing decision to euthanize...

MGISW Dortmund (Big Brown--Our Josephina, by Tale of the Cat) passed away at Korea's Great Hill Farm Apr. 18 due to a small bowel torsion, the farm reported on Instagram Thursday. Dortmund won his first six starts for Kaleem Shah and trainer Bob Baffert, including the 2015 GI Santa Anita Derby and 2014 GI Los Alamitos Futurity. The hulking chestnut was the bettors' second choice in the 2015 GI Kentucky Derby behind his stablemate American Pharoah. The 'TDN Rising Star' finished third to eventual Triple Crown winner that day and...