Marsha Naify

Collected Relocates to Rancho San Miguel in California

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...

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Gold Phoenix at Del Mar
Gold Phoenix Punches Ticket to Breeders' Cup with Fourth Del Mar Handicap Win

The effort that goes into winning one race--at any level--is tremendous. Winning the same graded race four years in a row? That's the stuff of Hollywood. And yet veteran Gold Phoenix (Ire) (g, 8, Belardo {Ire}--Magnifica, by Mizzen Mast) showed once again why he is the GII Del Mar Handicap's leading man Saturday, winning for the fourth consecutive year and earning a 'Win and You're In' berth to the GI Breeders' Cup Turf over this course Nov. 1. GSW Stay Hot (Summer Front) finished second, while MGSW Atitlan (The Factor)...

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Queen Bay Hands First-Crop Sire Charlatan His Second Winner At Santa Anita

1st-Santa Anita, $63,600, Msw, 5-30, 2yo, f, 5fT, :58.31, fm, 2 1/4 lengths. QUEEN BAY (f, 2, Charlatan--Queen Medb {Ire} {SW, $147,062}, by Kodiac {GB}) wrapped up with a bow the second win for her freshman sire on Friday afternoon. Charlatan collected his inaugural score at Gulfstream Park May 2. Unveiled at 40 cents on the dollar here, the filly exited the gate cleanly, but appeared to take a misstep as a pair hooked up on the engine along the backstretch. The juvenile recovered easily and around the far turn...

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Surf Cat Relocating to Rancho San Miguel

Surf Cat (Sir Cat--Trust Greta, by Centrust), the sire of graded winner and 2017 California Horse of the Year Sircat Sally and GSW San Onofre, will stand the 2021 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, CA. He will command a fee of $2,500, live foal guarantee. A graded winner on dirt and synthetic, short and long, and placed in Grade I company for the late Bruce Headley, Surf Cat has sired 57 winners to date, including the additional stakes horses Tule Fog, K Thirty Eight and Surfing...

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Pricey Karakontie Colt Highlights Book 5 Opener

A colt by Karakontie (Jpn) (Hip 2814) achieved a very rare feat in Keeneland September's Book 5 opener Tuesday, summoning a session-topping $500,000 from Marsha Naify. The Gainesway stallion had another yearling in the top five lots of the day with a full-sister to graded stakes-bound Spanish Loveaffair (Karakontie {Jpn}) (Hip 3161) bringing $220,000 from Ballyfair Bloodstock. A total of 253 yearlings brought $6,484,100 Tuesday with an average of $25,629 and a median of $15,000.Fifty-five horses failed to meet their reserves Tuesday. Throughout the first nine days of trade, 1,880...

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