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Grade 1 Winner Street Band Retired, To Be Offered In Fasig-Tipton November Sale

The connections of Grade 1 winner Street Band have announced her retirement from racing. She will be cataloged at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

Racing in partnership for Ray Francis, Cindy Jones, J. Larry Jones, Medallion Racing, and MyRacehorse.com, Street Band won five times in her career and she retires with earnings of more than $1.1 million.

“Street Band was a special filly for our barn. She had so much class to go with her Grade 1 talent. It's bittersweet to see her go, but we are proud that she proved herself to be among the best of her generation,” said trainer Larry Jones, who also bred the filly with Cindy Jones and Ray Francis.

A 7 1/4-length maiden winner at age two, Street Band would go on to win three graded stakes races by an average margin of three lengths in her career. Her most impressive win came in the $1-million Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx. In a field that featured four different multiple Grade 1 winners and an Eclipse Award champion, Street Band defeated the best fillies of her generation to win going away by 2 1/4 lengths. In winning the Grade 1 Cotillion, she handed multiple Grade 1 winner Guarana the only defeat in her career to this point.

Street Band won or placed nine times in her career, adding victories earlier in the year in the G2 Fair Grounds Oaks and G3 Indiana Oaks to her Cotillion score, along with a third in the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga.

Street Band hails from a family with success across the globe. She is the sixth winner from seven to race produced by Street Minstrel, a daughter of top-class broodmare sire Street Cry and a half-sister to two other stakes horses. Street Band's second dam is Minstrel's Lassie, herself a Grade 1 and French stakes winner, and a half-sister to Mintly, the granddam of two-time Australian Group 1 winner Manighar.

Phillip Shelton, manager of Taylor Made's Medallion Racing said, “Street Band took our Medallion partners on an incredible journey. She was our first Grade 1 winner, beating a star-studded field in the Grade 1 Cotillion. We will always remember her pulling her last-to-first charge to beat Grade 1 winners Guarana, Serengeti Empress, Bellafina, and champion Jaywalk. Thanks to Larry Jones and our partners Ray Francis and his family, Larry and Cindy Jones, and MyRacehorse.com.”

Taylor Made Sales Agency will consign Street Band to the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, which will be held immediately following the Breeders' Cup on Sunday, Nov. 8 at historic Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.

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Coolmore Australia’s Virtual Stallion Parade Features Justify, American Pharoah

With the Southern Hemisphere breeding season kicking off and travel clamped down on a global scale, Coolmore Australia has released an hour-long “virtual stallion parade” to show off its 2020 roster, including Triple Crown-winning shuttle stallions Justify and American Pharoah.

The video series features virtual inspections and walk videos of each stallion, along with interviews with several prominent figures within the Coolmore organization, and surrounding the careers of the individual horses.

The Coolmore staff is represented by some of its highest-ranking members, including John Magnier, M.V. Magnier, David Wachman, and James Bester.

Justify, in particular, got a spotlight during the virtual stallion parade, featuring a conversation with the aforementioned Coolmore staff discussing the 2018 Triple Crown winner, as well as trainer Bob Baffert and Ashford Stud manager Dermot Ryan.

“It's so unusual to win a Triple Crown,” John Magnier said. “People have to realize there's only been 13 of them ever, and this fella is an unbeaten Triple Crown winner. You could be talking about he could be a Northern Dancer or he could be a Sunday Silence. He could be the next big thing.

“The world will get fixed sooner than everybody thinks, and when these Justify-type animals go to the yearling sales down there, the international people are going to be interested in Justifys and things of that nature,” he continued. “The way this game is going, the people that are going to survive, I believe, are the people that have the international outlook.”

For both Justify and American Pharoah, Magnier said their underlying appeal to turf racing made them priorities to add to the stallion roster, even though neither raced on the surface themselves, because that perceived affinity for the grass opens them up to greater international success in parts of the world where turf is the dominant surface, such as Europe and Australia.

“It's probably far more likely that Justify should get grass horses than American Pharoah,” Magnier said. “That was the reason that we just had to have him. He shouted for grass, really, and all of his racing was done on the dirt.”

American Pharoah, the winner of the 2015 Triple Crown, has already proven Coolmore's turf hunch to be true, as the sire of prominent grass runners including 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Four Wheel Drive. However, Magnier was confident the surface success would balance itself out over time.

“It's only a matter of time before American Pharoah will get a good dirt horse,” he said. “He's had some success in Japan.”

Baffert echoed Magnier's sentiment that Justify could have had it in him to compete on the turf, if he had been called on to do so.

“People have always asked me, 'You need to bring a horse to Ascot,'” Baffert said. “Now, that would have been the horse to take to Ascot. I think he would have been just phenomenal. But, the really great ones, they can run on anything…He brought his track with him.”

Noting Justify's imposing physical and penchant for getting to the lead early, Baffert said Justify probably could have succeeded on the opposite side of the surface and distance spectrum, as well.

“I came from the Quarter Horse world, and believe me, he could have won the All American Futurity, a $2-million race,” he said. “He's that quick. He's that versatile that he's quick on his feet and just gets running really fast. I could have trained him to win an 870 [yard] race.”

Justify's first Northern Hemisphere foals are weanlings of 2020, and Ryan said they're already starting to emulate their sire in terms of their physicals.

“They have that big hip, rear end, and good hind leg,” he said. “That big ass-end, strength, that drives him. That's very dominant in nearly all of them, that rear end and muscle behind.”

The full virtual stallion parade video can be found below, but the landing page to break the show out by individual stallions can be found here.

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‘It’s A Fairy Tale’: Canadian Star Pink Lloyd Flies The Banner For Carey’s Breeding Program

It is every Thoroughbred breeder's dream to find that perfect match of mare and stallion, a union that will not only produce a good racehorse, but boost business at the annual yearling sales.

John Carey has been perfecting the Ontario breeding, sales, and stallion business for some 40 years and his T.C. Westmeath Stud in Shelburne is firmly established as one of the most successful in the country.

He has bred stakes winners, sold stakes winners, and brought some of the best stallions in Ontario racing history to the province.

All impressive accomplishments indeed.

But above all that, Carey will forever be known as the breeder and consignor of one of the greatest sprinters in Canadian racing lore, the remarkable Pink Lloyd.

Purchased for $30,000 at the 2013 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's Canadian Premier Yearling sale at Woodbine racetrack, he recently won his 22nd stakes race when he bulled his way through rivals to take the Grade 3 Bold Venture Stakes Aug. 15 at Woodbine.

In fact, for four years since he made his career debut in August 2016, the tall and leggy “Lloyd” has rolled through stakes victories for the ownership group Entourage Stable and trainer Robert Tiller, piling up purses that are just $23,000 (CAD) shy of $2 million.

He is second only to Grade 1 winner Heart to Heart (American-based earner of $2.038 million) as the richest CTHS sales graduate in the long history of the sale and he's gaining quickly on that fellow.

“He is something, isn't he?” Carey said after watching “Pinkie” overcome a bit of a crowded journey to win the Bold Venture. “It's a fairy tale. You can never know when you breed them that one could be this good.”

Pink Lloyd, a son of Carey's amazing stallion Old Forester (Forestry) from the mare Gladiator Queen, a daughter of one of Carey's first stallions, Great Gladiator, is three-for-three in 2020 as an 8-year-old in what is likely his last season of racing.

Following his Bold Venture victory, Tiller said, “He's eight years old; these are 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds and he just keeps doing it and doing it. I just cannot believe a horse could stay this good in every season of the year and keep winning. He's a blessing.”

Pink Lloyd's exploits, including his eight-for-eight campaign in 2017 that netted him Canadian Horse of the Year, champion sprinter and champion older male honors, have also provided Carey, wife Doris and twin sons Tyler and Trevor with the ability to continue doing what they love: breeding and selling racehorses.

Carey, an eighth generation horseman from Ireland, has bred dozens of stakes winners in addition to Pink Lloyd and in his latest stakes-caliber runner, Forester's Fortune, is another super advertisement for Old Forester.

Forester's Fortune, produced from the mare Nursery Song by Beau Genius, did not reach his $12,000 reserve at the 2018 CTHS sale and was later acquired by the late Laurie Silvera. As a 2-year-old in 2019, Forester' Fortune was third in the Victoria Stakes and this year, racing for Silvera's widow Claudia and Archie Lee, Forester's Fortune was second in the Greenwood Stakes at Woodbine. His earnings have gone past $100,000.

Carey's 2020 Canadian Premier Yearling Sale consignment of almost two dozen yearlings includes some well-bred youngsters by Old Forester. Carey's young stallion-on-the-rise, Souper Speedy, is also well represented in the sale.

Will another Pink Lloyd come out of this year's sale? That would be difficult to envision, but what the powerful and popular gelding has done for Carey, and Ontario racing, is shown the world that great racehorses can be found in Ontario.

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Four Star Sales Adds Lanigan As Bloodstock Advisor

David Lanigan has recently joined Four Star Sales, announced Kerry Cauthen, the company's managing partner.

David will join the company as bloodstock advisor, helping the company's clients in all areas, but emphasizing on the private purchase of horses in-training and racing management. Four Star Sales has been one of North America's leading Thoroughbred consignors since its inception in 2002.

Lanigan closed his Newmarket training operation this spring to prepare for his family's planned return to Lexington, Ky. As a trainer, Lanigan worked for over five years with the renowned Sir Henry Cecil as his assistant trainer before embarking in 2007 on his own notable 13-year training career. He ended with over 200 winners including top stakes horses, Main Sequence (2nd Epsom Derby G1), Meeznah (Park Hill G2 and Lillie Langtry G3), Interception, (Royal Ascot Wokingham), and Worth Waiting (2019 Dahlia Stakes G2, Prix Miniver Rose G3 and Aphrodite Stake).

Joining Four Star Sales brings things full circle for Lanigan. Twenty years ago, before he went to England as assistant trainer for Cecil, he worked with Cauthen at John T.L. Jones Jr's' Walmac International.

“We are very excited to have David join our team at Four Star,” said Cauthen. “David has a great understanding of all the different aspects of the Thoroughbred business. He learned the sales and breeding side from his parents at Tullamaine Castle Stud in Ireland and during his thirteen year training career where he regularly sold race horses both privately and at training sales. David has also returned to America for the September Sale every year since he began training. He recommended the purchase of several top stakes winners from that sale. He knows well what it takes to select and train top quality horses on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Lanigan added, “As I begin with Four Star, I will be focusing on the bloodstock side and I have been sourcing private sales of racehorses from England that we believe can move up in class in the U.S. Also, given the concerns over travel during the pandemic, I have had inquiries from European and other overseas owners to advise on purchases at the upcoming yearling and breeding stock sales. I expect that I may have a few more of those as the sales draw closer. While I was training in England, I attended the September Sale every year to buy yearlings for several overseas clients and to inspect the stock of my clients with breeding operations in Kentucky, such as Ken and Sarah Ramsey, Runnymede Farm and the Niarchos family. We sourced Main Sequence and Meeznah, among others, from those trips. Both were stakes winners in England and Main Sequence returned to the States and was a tremendous performer here.”

Lanigan continued, “Amy and I always knew we would return to Lexington one day and started considering it seriously last summer. Though I genuinely loved my time with Henry, and training on my own in Newmarket and Lambourn, I am extremely excited to return to the States. I couldn't hope to work for a better company or have a better team to work with than Kerry, Tony, Ashley and Elizabeth. They have a wonderful clientele and I believe I can add to the service they offer and hopefully bring some new connections to Four Star.”

Cauthen added, “David's honest manner, skill, and tenacity will definitely make him a great fit in the U.S. bloodstock market and also a great fit for Four Star.”

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