West Will Power Will Stand at Stud in Korea

Ben Glass, the stable manager for Gary and Mary West, has reported that GI Stephen Foster S. winner West Will Power (Bernardini–Wild Promises, by Wild Event) has been sold to a Korean farm, where he will stand at stud next year.

Glass said the deal was brokered by bloodstock agent Jun Park. Glass did not know what farm had bought West Will Power, but according to a Tweet from Korea Racing his new home will be Songma Farm.

On July 1, West Will Power picked up the biggest victory of his career, winning the GI Stephen Foster S. by a half-length, picking up his first Grade I win in the process. Afterward, however, he suffered a soft tissue injury and his retirement was announced in early August.

“He had an injury after that race, I believe in his left front pastern,” Glass said. “Dr. (Larry) Bramlage said it would take considerable time to heal, if it would heal at all. We didn't want to bring him back as a 7-year-old and maybe hurt him. He ran so well for us and was a homebred, so we decided the best thing to do was to retire him.”

Trained by Brad Cox, West Will Power was 7-for-17 during his career and earned $1,745,390. He also won the GII New Orleans Classic S. and the GII Hagyard Fayette S.

“He had a very nice career and that he's a homebred made it even nicer,” Glass said. “That's because we got the breeders' awards. We were really happy with him and the career he had.”

Glass said he tried to find a U.S. stallion farm that would agree to take West Will Power, but was unsuccessful.

“Sadly, Kentucky farms did not reach out to us and I tried quite a few,” he said. “I think with his age, being six, that probably stopped most of them. I tried hard to sell him throughout the whole United States. If this injury had happened earlier in his life I think we would have found a home for him here. But with his being six, then breeding at seven, his first foals would have been born when he was eight and wouldn't have run until he was 10. That's one of the reasons there wasn't a great deal of interest.”

The Wests have sent other stallions to Korea, including Concert Tour (Street Sense), the winner of the 2021 GII Rebel S. and the 2021 San Vicente S.

“We've sent a couple other horses to Korea,” Glass said. “We get pictures back and they just look gorgeous. They take great care of them and they are really coming on when it comes to their breeding program.”

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U.S.-Bred Korean Champion Dolkong Passes Away

Dolkong (Afleet Alex–Swampoodle, by Broken Vow), the champion older horse in Korea in 2019, was euthanized Apr. 1 after suffering an injury during trackwork two days earlier. He was nine years old.

Bred in Kentucky by Ellen B. Kill Kelley, the chestnut was the distant runner-up in the Korea Cup in 2018 and was part of a select Korean contingent at the 2019 Dubai World Cup Carnival, posting a 9 1/2-length victory in the Listed Curlin H. beneath Olivier Doleuze before just missing second in the G1 Al Maktoum Challlenge Round 3.

 

 

Returned to Korea after finishing well down the field behind Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) in the G1 Dubai World Cup, he added a second black-type success in the Listed Busan Mayor's Cup in June 2019 and tacked on a five-length defeat of local legend Cheongdam Dokki (To Honor and Serve) in the valuable KRA Cup Classic (non black-type) to secure champion older horse honors.

Dolkong, a $52,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling and $35,000 OBS April breezer, amassed a record of 9-3-2 from 22 starts for earnings of $1,408,864.

 

 

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Grade 3 Winner Adcat Dies In Korea At Age 26

Adcat, a Grade 3 winner and veteran sire, died on Dec. 30, per Korea Racing Authority records. He was 26.

The son of Storm Cat had resided in Korea since the summer of 2007 after beginning his stud career at Farnsworth Farms in Florida for the 2001 breeding season.

Adcat was a New York homebred for Gallagher's Stud, which campaigned the horse in partnership with Caesar Kimmel and Phillip Solondz. He broke his maiden in the summer of his 3-year-old season, and finished second in the Japan Racing Association Stakes at Laurel Park to finish the campaign.

The horse achieved his biggest accolade during his 4-year-old season, when he closed sharply to win the Grade 3 New Hampshire Sweepstakes Handicap at Rockingham Park. He bolstered his resume that season with a trio of stakes placings in New York.

In his final season, Adcat won the Mohawk Handicap at Belmont Park and placed in three stakes races, including a runner-up effort in the G3 Laurel Turf Cup Stakes at Laurel Park.

Adcat retired with five wins in 28 starts for earnings of $435,597.

His domestic-born runners are led by multiple Grade 2 winner Briecat, and stakes winners Cat Can Do and Survicat. His highlight as a broodmare sire is the Grade 3-placed stakes winner Temper Mint Patty.

Adcat sold to Korean connections for $52,000 at the 2006 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Fall Mixed Sale, and he was exported the following year. His highest placing on Korea's general sire list came in 2016, when he finished 33rd.

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Air Force Blue Sold To Stand In Korea

Air Force Blue, a European champion and young sire, has been sold to continue his stud career at Peter Hill's Pegasus Farm in Korea, BloodHorse reports.

The 8-year-old son of War Front previously stood at Ashford Stud in Kentucky, where he retired to debut for the 2017 breeding season. His oldest foals are 3-year-olds of 2021.

Leading the way among Air Force Blue's runners is Haddassah, who won this year's Prince of Wales Stakes, a Canadian classic.

Bred in Kentucky by Stone Farm out of the stakes-placed Maria's Mon mare Chatham, Air Force Blue sold to the Coolmore partnership at the 2014 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. He'd go on to be named Europe's champion 2-year-old male of 2018 after a campaign that featured Group 1 victories in the Vincent O'Brien National Stakes and Phoenix Stakes in Ireland and the Dewhurst Stakes in England.

Air Force Blue retired with nine wins in four starts for earnings of $844,919.

Read more at BloodHorse.

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