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Grade 1 winner Free Drop Billy will relocate to Iowa State University for the 2024 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500.

The 8-year-old son of Union Rags previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he entered stud in 2019.

From two crops of racing age, Free Drop Billy has sired 20 winners with combined progeny earnings of more than $1.2 million. His top runner is Free Drop Maddy, a four-time stakes winner with earnings of $278,800.

During his own on-track career, Free Drop Billy won two of 11 starts and earned $662,470, highlighted by a victory in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity during his 2-year-old season. That campaign also featured runner-up efforts in the G1 Hopeful Stakes and G3 Sanford Stakes, while his 3-year-old season featured in-the-money efforts in the G2 Blue Grass Stakes and Holy Bull Stakes, and the G3 Gotham Stakes.

Bred in Kentucky by Helen K. Groves Revokable Trust, Free Drop Billy is out of the Grade 3-placed Giant's Causeway mare Trensa, whose other foals of note include multiple Group 1 winner Hawkbill and the dam of Grade 2 winner Emmanuel. His second dam is the Grade 1 winner Serape, and third dam Mochila is multiple Grade 1-placed.

Free Drop Billy is available for viewing by appointment.

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A Union Rags colt is the latest yearling supplemented to the 2023 Texas Summer Yearling Sale.

Cataloged as Hip 271, the New York-bred Union Rags colt is out of a Mineshaft half-sister to Grade 3 placed Divine Elegance and from the family of Grade 1 placed and stakes winner Standard Deviation.

This addition as well as the eight previously supplemented yearlings are now posted on the interactive catalog at TTAsales.com and will all be featured in a paper supplement catalog available on the Lone Star Park sales grounds and sale pavilion ahead of the Aug. 28 sale.

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The 2023 edition of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Manitoba Division) Yearling Sale closed Sunday with gains in gross and average sale price, led by a $25,000 (Canadian) colt by Nonios.

The auction saw 16 horses sold for revenues of $183,500, which marked a seven percent increase in gross from last year's auction when 17 horses brought $170,150. Sunday's average sale price rose 14 percent to $11,469 from $10,008.

This year's buyback rate finished at 58 percent, which was up from last year's figure of 47 percent.

Arthur Roy purchased the sale-topper, a $25,000 Nonios colt out of the winning Silver Deputy mare Nickel Candy. Bred in Manitoba, the gelding is a half-brother to stakes-placed Manewal, from the family of champion Jewel Princess and Grade 2 winner Globalize.

Larry Falloon and Denis Huberdeau consigned the sale-topper.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Cave Rock, a two-time Grade 1 winner before finishing second to eventual 2022 champion 2-year-old male Forte in last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Keeneland, died Friday from the complications of severe laminitis following surgery in late July.

“We are deeply saddened by the sudden illness and irreversible medical condition which led to the death of Cave Rock,” trainer Bob Baffert said in a statement Saturday via X, formerly Twitter. “He was a talent at the top of his class and adored by our entire team. Learning of his death yesterday afternoon from the caring team a SLR Equine Hospital was like a gut punch to everyone who cared for this special horse. We are left with great memories with which he graced us but we will miss him dearly.”

The son of Arrogate out of Georgie's Angel, by Bellamy Road, owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, had not started since the Breeders' Cup Nov. 4 at Keeneland and had no published workouts in the last 60 days.

According to a statement from Vince Baker, Baffert's longtime attending veterinarian: “On July 28, 2023, after a routine morning of exercise, Cave Rock showed signs of colic while cooling out. He was treated with a tranquilizer and an anti-inflammatory. His vital signs did not improve, so he was sent immediately to SLR Equine Hospital. Upon his arrival, with in-depth diagnostics, it was determined that he had a congenital inguinal hernia and the small intestine was lodged into the left side of the scrotum.

“Cave Rock was taken into surgery immediately. The surgical procedure required the resection of eighteen inches of small intestine. Recovery was routine and went very well, until signs of laminitis started on day six post-op. Despite very aggressive medical treatments, severe laminitis led to the demise of Cave Rock.”

Cave Rock, who was purchased by his owners for $550,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where Gainesway consigned him, was bred in Kentucky by Anne and Ronnie Sheffer Racing LLC. He won his first three career starts, including the Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1) Sept. 11 and American Pharoah (G1) October 8 at Santa Anita before finishing second as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in what would be his final career start.

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