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Leading Louisiana Stallion Half Ours Euthanized

Half Ours (Unbridled's Song–Zing, by Storm Cat), a four-time leading sire in Louisiana, was euthanized Saturday, July 17, following a paddock accident at Clear Creek Stud. He was 18 years old.

“It is a sad day for us all,” said Clear Creek's Val Murrell. “Half Ours enriched our breeders' program in Louisiana and beyond, having touched many who bred and raced. He was obviously an integral part of Clear Creek Stud's very existence, like a family member that you saw every day. His loss will be felt by many and his influence will remain for years to come, defined by progeny that always showed up, held together, running on both dirt or grass.”

Bred by Brilliant Stables, Half Ours was purchased by the late Buzz Chace for $625,000 at the 2004 Keeneland September sale and became one of the first 'TDN Rising Stars' when graduating by better than 10 lengths as first asking for owners Aaron and Marie Jones and Barry K. Schwartz and trainer Todd Pletcher at Keeneland before following up in the Three Chimneys Juvenile S. in 2005. Aaron Jones bought out his partner when Half Ours sold for $6.1 million to top the Keeneland November sale in 2006 and the colt ran his unbeaten streak to five with a victory in the 2007 GII Richter Scale Breeders' Cup H. before heading to the breeding shed with a career mark of 7-5-1-0.

Half Ours entered stud at Taylor Made Stallions in Kentucky before moving to Clear Creek for the 2011 breeding season. From 11 crops to race, he is the sire to date of 24 stakes winners and led the Louisiana sires' table from 2014 to 2016.

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Florida Sire Fury Kapcori Dies

Florida-based stallion Fury Kapcori (Tiznow–Gin Running, by Go For Gin), a Grade III winner and runner-up to Violence (Medaglia d'Oro) in the 2012 GI CashCall Futurity, died last month following complications from colic. The Paulick Report was first to report the news.

A $100,000 Keeneland September yearling, Fury Kapcori was raced in partnership by a group including trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and made the 2014 GIII Precisionist S. the biggest victory of his career, scoring by 5 3/4 lengths at odds-on.

The 11-year-old entered stud at Journeyman Stud in Florida and has sired 17 individual winners from two crops to race, including the stakes winners High On Gin and The Goddess Lyssa.

Bred by Gerald Ford's Diamond A Racing Corp., Fury Kapcori is a full-brother to GSW Tizfiz, the dam of 2020 GI Belmont S. and GI Runhappy Travers S. hero Tiz the Law (Constitution) and MSP Awestruck (Tapit).

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Came Home Passes Away In Japan

Came Home (Gone West–Nice Assay, by Mr. Prospector), a Grade I-winning juvenile who effectively carried his speed a classic distance, has passed away after a bout with colic in Japan, according to published reports. He was 22 years old.

Bred by the late John Toffan and Trudy McCaffery, the half-brother to GSW A. P. Assay (A.P. Indy) was bought back on a bid of $650,000 as a weanling at Keeneland November in 1999 and failed to meet his reserve when offered as a yearling at Keeneland September and as a juvenile at Barretts in March–thus his name–before being turned over to trainer Paco Gonzalez. Winner of the GI Hopeful S. ahead of a seventh to Johannesburg (Hennessy) in the 2001 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Came Home successfully stretched out to two turns as a sophomore, winning the one-mile GII San Rafael S. and GI Santa Anita Derby over nine furlongs before finishing sixth behind War Emblem (Our Emblem) in the 2002 GI Kentucky Derby.

He atoned for that defeat with a pair of graded wins in age-restricted company in the GIII Affirmed H. and GII Swaps S., then belied odds of 10-1 to defeat a field including the Derby winner, future GI Breeders' Cup Classic and G1 Dubai World Cup hero Pleasantly Perfect (Pleasant Colony) and two-time GI Santa Anita H. victor Milwaukee Brew (Wild Again) in the mile-and-a-quarter GI Pacific Classic (see below). He was originally retired to Lane's End Farm in Kentucky with nine wins–eight in stakes company–from 12 runs and earnings of $1,835,940.

He was responsible for 11 American stakes winners, including GIII La Habra S. heroine Passion–his lone U.S. graded winner–but was relocated to Japan's Shizunai Stallion Station in 2008. He continued to sire winners at a good clip and has accounted for an additional five black-type winners, most notably Inti (Jpn), who became his sire's lone top-level scorer to days in the 2019 February S. at Toyko and who was recently third in the $1.09-million Listed Kashiwa Kinen at Funabashi in May. His other Japanese group winners include Tagano Tonnere (Jpn) and Sound Rihanna (Jpn).

The sire of 491 winners in 21 worldwide racing jurisdictions, Came Home is represented by 17 juveniles of 2021, six of which have started.

WATCH: Came Home upsets the 2002 GI Pacific Classic

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Transferable Toxin? Study Finds Atypical Myopathy Can Pass In Mare’s Milk

Atypical myopathy is a disorder that affects a horse's muscles and is caused by ingestion of seeds, seedlings, or leaves of some plants in the Acer family. Not all trees in the Acer family contain the toxin, but horse owners and caretakers should be cognizant that the disease is fatal to nearly three quarters of horses that become affected. Some horses are more susceptible to the toxin than others.

If a mare becomes affected by atypical myopathy she may transfer the toxin to her foal. This also places humans who drink mare's milk at risk of contracting the disease. Some Central Asian cultures prefer mare's milk to cow's milk.

In a study published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Dr. Johannes Sander investigated a case of atypical myopathy that affected both a mare and newborn foal in Germany. The mare had been grazing in a field next to Acer pseudoplatanus trees (known in the United Kingdom and Europe as a “sycamore” or “sycamore maple” in the States). Upon testing, Sander found that the mare's milk contained hypoglycin A, the toxin implicated in atypical myopathy, as well as significant metabolites.

The research team also examined samples of six different brands of frozen mare's milk available for human consumption across Germany. One of the samples contained metabolites of the toxin. The authors concluded that the toxins can pass through mare's milk to foals or to humans who ingest it. They caution that the same toxins can be found in seeds and unripe fruit from the ackee or lychee, which could potentially harm breast-fed children, and suggest more investigation into the human health implications.

Read the study here.