This feature provides a capsule look at three horses who are heating up on the Triple Crown trail and three horses whose chances for the 2023 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve are not quite as strong as they were a few weeks ago.
Month: January 2023
‘Off To A Great Start’: First Foal Is A Filly For Lane’s End Stallion Lexitonian
Grade 1 winner and multiple Grade 1 placed Lexitonian's first foal arrived Sunday, Jan. 29 at Calumet Farm.
The filly, out of Vinca (Oxbow – Elusive Diva, by Elusive Quality), was bred by Calumet Farm, who raced and owns the stallion. Vinca is out of multiple graded stakes winner Elusive Diva and is a half-sister to champion sprinter Roy H.
“We've been excited to see the foals for our homebred Lexitonian and are delighted that the first one is born at Calumet,” said Eddie Kane, general manager of Calumet. He continued, “She has a lot of leg, good bone, and is well balanced. If this is any indicator of what his babies are going to look like, we're going to be off to a great start.”
Lexitonian is a Grade 1-winning son of champion Speighstown. He broke his maiden in impressive fashion in his first start at two at Belmont before going on to win the Grade 3 Chick Lang Stakes and Concern Stakes at three while also hitting the board in the G2 Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland.
At four, he ran second by a nose to Collusion Illusion in the G1 Bing Crosby Stakes. In his 5-year-old campaign he ran second by a head to Flagstaff in the hotly contested G1 Churchill Downs Stakes before scoring a huge victory in the G1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga.
Lexitonian is the first foal out of Riviera Romper (Tapit). She is the daughter of G1 Test winner Swap Fliparoo that Calumet acquired at the 2015 Keeneland November Sale for $310,000.
Lexitonian stands for $7,500.
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GISW Lexitonian Represented By First Foal
GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. winner Lexitonian (Speightstown) was represented by his first foal Sunday. The filly, out of a half-sister to dual Eclipse winner Roy H. (More Than Ready), was born at Calumet Farm.
“We've been excited to see the foals for our homebred Lexitonian and are delighted that the first one is born at Calumet,” said Eddie Cane, general manager of Calumet. “She has a lot of leg, good bone, and is well balanced.”
Lexitonian stands at Lane's End for a fee of $7,500.
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Drought, High Prices: How To Stretch Winter Hay Supplies
Like everything else lately, the costs of hay and feed have skyrocketed across the United States. In areas that have suffered a drought, prices are even higher.
Horses should eat a minimum of 1 percent of their body weight per day in hay or hay replacement products. If sourcing quality hay has become difficult, there are a variety of options available to stretch hay supplies. These include hay pellets, chopped hay, commercial hay stretchers, hay cubes, haylage and complete feeds. Each of these can be used alone or in combination, reports The Horse.
Complete feeds and commercial hay stretchers can be alternatives to feeding poor-quality or costly hay; these are pelleted, made of blends of fiber that replace long-stemmed hay. These products are nutritionally balanced and higher in calories than hay or hay pellets. Pelleted hay and hay replacements should be fed by weight, the same as traditional hay.
Other hay replacement products that use soybean hulls, wheat middlings, wheat bran, or beet pulp can be used to replace up to 50 percent of hay in an equine diet.
Any change from hay to another hay product should be done over seven to 10 days, adding in the replacement product before running out of traditional hay. This will help to avoid digestive upset.
To help prevent rapid ingestion, divide the daily ration of pelleted hay, complete feeds, or hay stretchers into multiple meals and feed them at ground level so the products can be spread out.
Read more at The Horse.
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