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Fipke Among 2022 Canadian Hall of Fame Inductees

Owner/breeder Charles E. Fipke, a Canadian geologist and diamond prospector who has made an impact on the sport on both sides of the border, will be inducted as part of the 2022 class in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. The other Thoroughbred inductees include jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva, as well as horses Court Vision (Gulch) and Alydeed (Shadeed).

Fipke has been involved in Thoroughbreds for over 40 years. His Sovereign Award winners are all homebreds: Not Bourbon (Not Impossible {Ire}), Impossible Time (Not Impossible {Ire}), Perfect Soul (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), and Lady Speightspeare (Speightstown). He has also campaigned homebred Eclipse Award winner Forever Unbridled (Unbridled's Song) and a number of other Grade I winners. In 2020, Fipke was awarded the E.P. Taylor Award of Merit by the Stewards of the Jockey Club of Canada for his contributions to the Canadian Thoroughbred industry.

Da Silva, who has been honored with the Sovereign Award as Canada's Champion jockey seven times, moved to Canada after a successful riding career in Brazil. From 11,630 starts, Da Silva has 2,286 wins, earnings of $102,764,264, and has been partner to a number of top horses, including Canadian Horse of the Year and eight-time Sovereign winner Pink Lloyd (Old Forester).

Court Vision, winner of five Grade I races including the 2011 Breeders' Cup Mile, was bred in Kentucky by W. S. Farish and Kilroy Thoroughbred Partnership. Although his ownership and trainers changed a number of times, he won the final start of his career–the Breeders' Cup–for Spendthrift Farm and trainer Dale Romans.

Bred in Ontario by 2015 Canadian Hall of Fame inductee Anderson Farms, Alydeed was campaigned by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms and trained by Roger Attfield. His biggest scores included the Queen's Plate and the GI Carter H. Alydeed was Canada's leading sire in 2001.

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was founded in 1976 and landed on a permanent site at Woodbine in Toronto in 1997. Induction ceremonies for the Class of 2022 will be held during the summer of 2023, along with those inducted as part of the Class of 2023, which will be announced in April.

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Giant Expectations, Court Vision To Stand At Pryor Ranch In Nebraska

Nebraska's stallion ranks will add a pair of new faces in 2021, with Giant Expectations and Court Vision relocating to Pryor Ranch near Omaha, Neb.

Farm owner Judy Pryor, whose background comes in the Quarter Horse realm, said the decision to purchase Thoroughbred stallions came after the state passed racino legislation in November, opening up future opportunities for the state's breeding and racing programs. However, she said the process of finding the stallions wasn't easy.

Pryor went to the recent Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale looking for a stallion, but the horses she landed on were scratched from the sale either because the owner decided to hang on to them or a private sale was made before the horse entered the ring. She did, however, take note of Giant Expectations, who was being shown as a stallion prospect at a farm near the sales grounds.

“I kind of came home from there with my tail between my legs, thinking, 'I don't need to work this hard, anyway,'” Pryor said. “I started really researching and asking a lot of questions, and the gentleman that owns Giant Expectations, Justin Border, won the Breeders' Cup and an Eclipse Award with a horse by one of the stallions I was interested in.”

Border, through the nom-de-course Exline-Border Racing, campaigns Storm the Court, who won the 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile en route to champion 2-year-old male honors. Storm the Court is by Court Vision, who had been standing at Acadiana Equine in Louisiana.

Pryor had always been keen on sons and daughters of Gulch – a rapidly shrinking population in 2021 – so seeing the Gulch sire line run through Storm the Court via Court Vision gave her another target for acquisition.

“I started thinking, 'This guy likes what I like,' so I started researching Storm the Court, and I got it in my head that I was going to get Court Vision,” Pryor said.

After plenty of research and phone calls, Pryor ended up with two new stallions; both of them tied to Border's stable either actively or passively.

Giant Expectations, a son of Frost Giant, won four of 25 starts during his on-track career for earnings of $1,343,600. The 8-year-old is best known for his victories in the Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Stakes and San Antonio Stakes.

Bred in New York by Sunrise Stables, Giant Expectations is out of the winning Is It True mare Sarahisittrue, whose five foals to race are all winners. He hails from the family of multiple Grade 2 winner C Z Rocket.

Court Vision, a 16-year-old son of Gulch, is best known on the racetrack for his victory in the 2011 Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs, a swan song that brought his career record to nine wins in 31 starts and earnings of $3,746,658. His other wins of note included the G1 Hollywood Derby, Woodbine Mile, Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, and Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes, the G2 Remsen Stakes and Jamaica Handicap, and the G3 Iroquois Stakes.

From seven crops of racing age, Court Vision has sired 156 winners, with combined progeny earnings in excess of $13.9 million. He began his stallion career in 2012 at Park Stud in Ontario, then moved to Kentucky for one season at Spendthrift Farm in 2016 before relocating to Louisiana.

Storm the Court is Court Vision's best runner to date, conceived during Court Vision's lone season in Kentucky. In addition to bringing in an Eclipse Award and a Breeders' Cup trophy, Storm the Court finished a solid sixth in last year's Kentucky Derby, and he most recently ran second in the G2 Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita.

Court Vision's other runners of note include Grade 2 winner Mr Havercamp and Canadian champion King and His Court.

Pryor said she was still deciding on stud fees for her two new additions, but her goal would be the same no matter the price: raise a horse that could take her to the Kentucky Derby as a connection instead of a spectator.

Court Vision, in particular, has already gotten one foal to Churchill Downs when the lights were at their brightest, and Pryor hoped history could repeat.

“I'm a 71-year-old lady that always wanted a Kentucky Bluegrass farm, but I live in Omaha, Neb,” Pryor said. “That's been my childhood dream. I know I'll probably never make it, but I'd sure like to go. I've gotten to be in the paddock at all three Triple Crown races a few times.”

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Reduced Fees for Acadiana Equine @ Copper Crowne’s Stallion Trio

Louisiana’s Acadiana Equine @ Copper Crowne announced Friday reduced 2021 stud fees for Gemologist (Tiznow), Court Vision (Gulch) and Astrology (A.P. Indy). The trio represents three of the top six sires in Louisiana.

“For obvious reasons we want to provide Louisiana breeders some relief and give them a better opportunity for profitability in the future,” said stallion manager David Tillson.

Gemologist, who has led the Louisiana sire list for the last two years, will stand for $4,000, down from $4,500 for 2020. Court Vision, sire of 2019’s Eclipse-winning 2-year-old colt Storm the Court, will stand for $2,500 after standing for $3,500 last year. And finally, Astrology, who stood for $4,000 in 2020, will be available for $2,500 in 2021.

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Gemologist Leads Louisiana’s Acadiana Equine At Copper Crowne 2021 Roster

Stallion manager, David Tillson released the 2021 fees for Astrology, Court Vision and Gemologist today, all standing at Acadiana Equine @ Copper Crowne.

“For obvious reasons we want to provide Louisiana breeders some relief and give them a better opportunity for profitability in the future,” explained Tillson.

Standing three of the top six sires in Louisiana offers proven commodities to breeders and with the new ability for out-of-state mares to join the lucrative Louisiana Bred program.

Gemologist is the leading Louisiana stallion in 2019 and 2020 will stand for $4,000, the son of pensioned Tiznow appears to be the heir as the closest link to the Man o' War line.

Storm the Court, the champion 2-year-old colt of 2019, is by Court Vision, the first stallion Acadiana Equine placed at Copper Crowne. Court Vision, a son of Gulch, will stand for $2,500 in 2021 and currently ranks second in the state by 2020 earnings.

Astrology at $2,500, offers breeders an accomplished young son of A.P. Indy with tremendous value.

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