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World champion 3-year-old of 2002 Rock of Gibraltar passed away last night due to heart failure at the age of 23.

“He was healthy and looking great right up to the end,” said Castlehyde manager Paddy Fleming. “He was a fantastic racehorse and a very good sire who will be missed by all the staff here.”

The son of Danehill, bred by the late Joe Crowley and Anne-Marie and Aidan O'Brien, was the first horse ever to win seven consecutive Group 1 races in the Northern Hemisphere breaking Mill Reef's 30-year-old record.

He finished up his 2-year-old season with wins in the Grand Criterium and the Dewhurst and as a 3-year-old he added the 2,000 Guineas, Irish 2,000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes and Prix du Moulin.

At stud, he sired a total of 16 Group 1 or Grade 1 winners in Britain, Ireland, France, U.S., Hong Kong, Australia etc. headed by Criterium International and Eclipse Stakes winner Mount Nelson, Golden Jubilee Stakes and Haydock Sprint Cup winner Society Rock along with Irish 1,000 Guineas and Garden City Stakes heroine Samitar.

A notable broodmare sire, Rock Of Gibraltar's daughters produced two recent 2,000 Guineas winners in the shape of Kameko and Poetic Flare.

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Concert Tour, a multiple Grade 2 winner who ran in the 2021 Preakness Stakes, has been sold to begin his stallion career in Korea.

The 4-year-old son of Street Sense arrived in Korea on Sept. 23, according to Korea Racing Association records, and he will stand as property of the Korean Thoroughbred Breeders Association.

Owned by Gary and Mary West and trained by Bob Baffert and later Brad Cox, Concert Tour retired with three wins in eight starts for earnings of $881,303.

Concert Tour started his career on the west coast in the barn of trainer Bob Baffert, where he won on debut in January of his 3-year-old season in a wire-to-wire Santa Anita Park maiden special weight. He immediately jumped into graded stakes competition and found success in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes.

The colt was then shipped to Oaklawn Park for the rest of his Kentucky Derby prep races, where he once again led at every call to dominate the G2 Rebel Stakes by 4 1/4 lengths. He then finished third as the favorite in the G1 Arkansas Derby.

Concert Tour had the points to enter the 2021 Kentucky Derby, but his connections elected to skip the race and point for the Preakness, in order to give the colt more time to recover from his uncharacteristically poor Arkansas Derby effort. He was never a factor in the Preakness, and he finished ninth in what would be his final start of the year.

The colt would return in 2022 under the Brad Cox shedrow, and he finished last in the listed Fifth Season Stakes at Oaklawn Park in his seasonal bow. He ran second in an Oaklawn allowance optional claiming race later in the meet, then he finished fifth that spring in a Keeneland optional claimer in his final career start.

A homebred for the West operation, Concert Tour is out of the winning Tapit mare Purse Strings, whose two foals to race are both winners. Champion Stardom Bound is in his extended family.

Among the notable U.S. horses on the KTBA stallion roster are Any Given Saturday, Colonel John, Gemologist, Girolamo, Nitrous, Overanalyze, and To Honor and Serve.

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Drain the Clock, a lightning-fast Grade 1-winning sprinter, will enter stud at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky., for the 2023 breeding season.

The 4-year-old son of Maclean's Music showed precocity to break his maiden by a wire-to-wire six lengths as a juvenile at Gulfstream Park. He won four of his first five starts going into his 3-year-old season, culminating with a 6 ¼-length score in the Swale Stakes (G3).

Two starts later, Drain the Clock added another front-running score in the Bay Shore Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct before earning his crowning achievement in the Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park.

In the Grade 1 Woody Stephens, Drain the Clock dueled with champion sprinter Jackie's Warrior and he prevailed by a neck. Drain the Clock was the first horse to defeat Jackie's Warrior around one turn.

Drain the Clock retired with seven wins in 15 career starts, including three victories in graded stakes races, for earnings of $698,000.

Possessing a standout physical, Drain the Clock is out of the Arch mare Manki. He was bred in Kentucky by Nick Cosato and raced for Cosato's Slam Dunk Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Stables, and Michael Nentwig. Drain the Clock was trained by Saffie Joseph Jr.

“Drain the Clock is an imposing physical with tremendous speed who fits the mold of what breeders are looking for,” said Gainesway's newly appointed stallion director Ryan Norton. “That is why we are excited to offer Share The Upside breeding rights in this exciting new stallion.”

Drain the Clock will stand for $10,000 in 2023. Please contact Ryan Norton for details regarding how to earn your breeding right through our Share the Upside program.

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