Iron Man Cal

Grade I winner Collected (City Zip) will relocate from Airdrie Stud in Kentucky to stand at Rancho San Miguel in California for the 2026 breeding season, it was announced Friday. With an introductory West Coast fee of $7,500, with a live foal stand and nurse guarantee, the 12-year-old son of City Zip enters California as one of North America's leading fourth-crop sires, and as the clear-cut, #1 California sire by 2025 progeny earnings with $6,307,233 in purse money amassed through Nov. 5. From four crops to race, he has sired...

Just how deep is Sunday's running of the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga, a 'Win and You're In' qualifier for the GI Breeders' Cup Classic in a little more than two months' time? Well, six of the eight remaining horses--GII Charles Town Classic winner Banishing (Ghostzapper) will be scratched--have recorded at least one Beyer Speed Figure of 104 or higher this year and three of the entrants are already Grade I winners this term. It is the very definition of a hot race. The field is led by...

The recipient of a textbook, ground-saving ride from Hector Berrios, Game Warrior (Game Winner) threaded the needle in the stretch and outbattled an unlucky Iron Man Cal (Collected) to the line in the traditional opening-day feature of the Del Mar summer meeting, the restricted Oceanside Stakes. Equipped with the blinkers that were removed for the first time in his career when a closing third to Day and Age (Omaha Beach) as the tepid favorite in a one-mile Santa Anita allowance on June 13, the dark bay colt was allowed to...

Twenty-three horses have been catalogued for the OBSOnline 2024 December auction which begins Thursday, Dec. 12 at noon Eastern time and runs through Tuesday, Dec. 17, closing at noon ET. The catalogue includes 2-year-olds in training, horses with current winning form, broodmare prospects, in-foal mares and one weanling. The OBSOnline December catalogue includes mares in foal to Girvin, Roadster, Rogueish and First Dude. Also on offer are 2-year-olds by Classic Empire, Street Sense, Neolithic, Mendelssohn, Volatile, Audible, Authentic, Vekoma, Catalina Cruiser and Khozan, 3-year-old fillies by Collected, Flameaway, and Girvin...

The outside draw was no problem for Henri Matisse (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) who came flying late to award trainer Aidan O'Brien another win in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. The only O'Brien runner in the race, the son of Wootton Bassett likely would have been a shorter price if not for his last-out fifth as the beaten favorite in the G1 Prix JeanLuc Lagardere at Longchamp, a race in which he wore blinkers for the first time over soft turf. Otherwise sporting a nearly unblemished record including a...

"Boy Trapped in Refrigerator Eats Own Foot." Well, that got your attention, didn't it? Devotees of a certain spoof disaster movie may recall the spinning front-page story--but few will be aware that it may yet, in a roundabout way, lead to genuine headlines at the Breeders' Cup. Bret Jones of Airdrie Stud was at a dinner a few years ago when someone passing behind his seat overheard him saying how much he enjoyed Airplane! "I was in that movie," said Billy Koch. On the face of it, it seemed unlikely....

Trainer Philip D'Amato sent out a quintet Saturday morning at Santa Anita Park, with three confirmed as pre-entries for the Breeders' Cup after their works, on a busy morning for World Championship hopefuls across the country. From his three confirmed, GSW Iron Man Cal (Collected) worked four furlongs in :49 flat, and will be pre-entered for the Juvenile Turf. GSW Thought Process (Collected) also went four panels in :49.80 and will target the Juvenile Fillies Turf. Argentinian Group 1-winner Che Evasora (Arg) (Greenspring) worked six furlongs in 1:15.80, and owns...