World of Trouble

World of Trouble (Kantharos--Meets Expectations, by Valid Expectations), a Grade I winner on turf and dirt and who stands his first season at stud in 2020 at John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Farm in Lexington, will shuttle to Cornerstone Stud in South Australia for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. The deal, brokered by de Burgh Equine, will see World of Trouble command a fee of A$22,000 (including 10% GST). A first-out graduate by 14 lengths as a summer 2-year-old, World of Trouble set a Tampa track record in making the...

Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables and Bethlehem Stables' multiple Grade I winner World of Trouble (Kantharos), who had to be scratched as a heavy morning-line favorite from Saturday's GIII Troy S. at Saratoga, is recovering from a foot bruise and visited the track Sunday morning, according to trainer Jason Servis. "He's better. He had a foot bruise. We tested it and he was tender, real tender. We kind of had to cut it out and it got a little more tender, nothing serious," Servis told the NYRA notes team. "He actually...

Saturday's GIII Troy S. at Saratoga is short on numbers, but long on quality, with two Grade I winners and a pair of multiple graded winners from the Christophe Clement barn among the field of six turf sprinters. The Troy discussion starts with the versatile World of Trouble (Kantharos), who just as easily could have ended up in last Saturday's GI A. G. Vanderbilt S., but lands here instead as he looks to score for the fifth time in six turf tries. Victorious in the Quick Call S. over this...