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Brazilian Champ, U.S. Grade I Winner Ivar Retired

Ivar (Brz) (Agnes Gold {Jpn}–May Be Now, by Smart Strike), a dual Group 1 winner in Argentina and later winner of the GI Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland, has been retired from racing and will enter stud for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Haras Carampangue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The news was announced jointly on Twitter by Stud RDI and Bonne Chance Farm, who campaigned Ivar in partnership.

Perfect in three starts as a late-season juvenile in Argentina, Ivar annexed a Churchill allowance in his second U.S. appearance for Kentucky Oaks-winning trainer Paolo Lobo in the spring of 2020 and two starts later defeated Raging Bull (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and Without Parole (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the Shadwell Turf Mile. He went on to finish a close fourth at 7-1 behind Order Of Australia (Ire) (Australia {GB}) in that year's GI Breeders' Cup Mile.

Fourth when first off a five-month layoff in defense of his Turf Mile title in the fall of 2021, Ivar ran home strongly to round out the trifecta behind the impressive Space Blues (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar and was subsequently runner-up to champion Modern Games (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in last year's GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile, to 'TDN Rising Star' Annapolis (War Front) in the Coolmore Turf Mile and closed his career with a second in this year's GI Pegasus World Cup Turf. The Southern Hemisphere 6-year-old retires with a record of 5-3-2 from 15 starts and earnings of $1,551,053.

Ivar's dam, a $60,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, became a Group 2 winner in Brazil before her immediate female family took off. Her year-older half-sister Ann of the Dance (English Channel) won in stakes company and was placed at Grade III level and Al's Gal (English Channel) took out the GI E.P. Taylor S. in 2016. May Be Now was sold for $67,000 in foal to Hard Spun at Keeneland November in 2017. Ivar's late sire was also responsible for Stud RDI and Bonne Chance's 2021 GI Keeneland Turf Mile hero In Love (Brz).

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Dual-Hemisphere Sire Pure Prize Dies In Argentina At Age 23

Pure Prize, a Grade 2 winner who had success at stud in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, died Saturday at Haras La Providencia in Argentina following complications from a stroke, the South American publication Turf Diario reports. He was 23.

A Phipps Stable homebred by Storm Cat, and out of the champion Heavenly Prize, Pure Prize raced for three seasons, and won five of 17 starts for earnings of $475,459. The Shug McGaughey trainee got better with age, earning his first graded stakes placing at four when he ran second in the Grade 3 Fourstardave Handicap. In his next and final start, he picked up his first graded stakes victory in the G2 Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap at Turfway Park.

Pure Prize retired to Vinery in Lexington, Ky., for the 2003 breeding season, and he remained there for every Northern Hemisphere season through 2012. He joined the rest of Vinery stallions in moving to WinStar Farm for the 2013 season. All the while, he shuttled to Argentina for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, where he became a star.

Pure Prize was Argentina's leading sire in 2012 and 2013, he relocated to the country permanently during his second championship season, moving to Haras Carampangue.

The stallion was a steady producer of champions in Argentina, siring 2015 Horse of the Year Hi Happy, and year-end honor-earners Winning Prize, Ollagua, Jumbalaya, Puerto Real, and Kononkop, as well as Peruvian champion Hija Rubia.

Despite leaving the country nearly a decade ago, Pure Prize remained a stallion of note in the U.S., with several Argentine-breds that shipped north and won major races.

Chief among them was Blue Prize, who won the 2019 Breeders' Cup Distaff, and promptly sold to Larry Best's OXO Equine as a broodmare prospect for $5 million. After earning Argentina's champion 2-year-old colt and champion miler honors in 2012, Winning Prize shipped to Southern California, where he won the G1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita Park. Hi Happy came stateside after securing 2015 Horse of the Year honors and took a pair of graded stakes races, including the G1 Man O'War Stakes.

In terms of domestically-sired U.S. runners, Pure Prize's record is led by Grade 1 winners Pure Clan and Pure Fun, Grade 2 winner Dothraki Queen, and Grade 3 winner Birdbirdistheword, Red Knight, Holy Nova, and Now I Know.

In total, Pure Prize has sired 13 crops of racing age, with 1,138 winners and combined progeny earnings in excess of $74.9 million. He was pensioned from stud duty in 2016 and relocated to Haras La Providencia to live out his remaining days.

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Orpen Dies at 25 In Argentina

Orpen (Lure–Bonita Francita, by Devil's Bag), a leading sire in South America since his arrival on the continent in the mid-2000s, passed away Jan. 26 following emergency colic surgery, Turf Diario reports. He was 25 years old.

A $525,000 Keeneland November weanling purchase in 1996, around the same time his half-brother Jules (Forty Niner) won the GIII Nashua S. in New York, Orpen annexed the 1998 G1 Prix Morny in the colors of John Magnier and entered stud in Ireland for the 2000 breeding season. Also a half-brother to SW Etterby Park (Silver Hawk), Orpen was produced by a daughter of GSW & G1SP Coup de Folie (Halo), the dam of fellow Morny winners and French highweights Coup de Genie (Mr. Prospector) and Machiavellian (Mr. Prospector). His third dam was Natalma, the dam of the breed-shaping Northern Dancer (Nearctic).

Following on the South American success of Jules, Orpen was ultimately purchased from Coolmore and relocated to Haras Carampangue in Argentina. He also covered mares in France during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season. All told, Orpen is the sire of 22 Group 1 winners in seven different jurisdictions. The stallion of the year in Argentina in 2010, Orpen is the sire of 568 individual winners for prize money of nearly 200 million pesos and 69 Argentinian Classic winners, according to Turf Diario. Orpen is the broodmare sire of 65 worldwide graded/group winners, 13 at the top level, including GI Arlington Million hero Robert Bruce (Chi) (Fast Company {Ire}); Satono Diamond (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), a two-time G1SW in Japan; G1 Falmouth S. heroine Giofra (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and Doctor Doom (Aus) (Domesday {Aus}), a Group 1 winner in Australia, sired during his early shuttling seasons.

Turf Diario reports that Orpen remained active and with high fertility rates even at his advanced age. According to the publication, he served 100 mares in 2020, of which 80 are reported in foal. He is the sire of 90 current 2-year-olds, a crop of 56 yearlings and 55 current foals.

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