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Serengeti Empress Retired; To Be Bred To Into Mischief In 2021

Serengeti Empress, the winner of the 2019 Kentucky Oaks, has been retired from racing and will be bred to leading sire Into Mischief during the 2021 breeding season.

The news was announced via a social media interaction between Hayley Amoss – the daughter of trainer Tom Amoss – and Spendthrift Farm's Mark Toothaker. Per Amoss' tweet, the 4-year-old daughter of Alternation will be boarded at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., for owner Joel Politi.

Serengeti Empress finishes her racing career with seven wins in 19 career starts for earnings of $2,175,653. While the Oaks was a career highlight, the filly proved herself an elite runner around one turn or two, notching additional victories in the G1 Ballerina Stakes, and the G2 Pocahontas Stakes, Rachel Alexandra Stakes, and Azeri Stakes.

She finished third in last year's Breeders' Cup Distaff, and second in this year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

Into Mischief, a resident of Spendthrift Farm, was North America's leading general sire by earnings in 2019, and he continues to function at a high level in 2020, led by Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic winner Authentic. He will stand the upcoming breeding season for an advertised fee of $225,000.

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PR Special Keeneland November: A Foundation Sire Line In Jeopardy

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The focus of the bloodstock community shifts across town for the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, and the Paulick Report has the reading material you need for the day in the PR Special.

Today's issue, like every edition of the PR Special, offers exclusive, detailed bloodstock content not yet seen on the rest of the website in a pdf format that's easy to read and print.

With the recent pensioning of champion and leading sire Tiznow, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills assesses the state of the foundation Godolphin Arabian sire line – one that runs through the great Man o' War – which is left without a clear heir in North America.

Spendthrift Farm's Coal Front is the subject of this issue's Stallion Spotlight, with Mark Toothaker explaining what makes the globetrotting son of Stay Thirsty an appealing prospect for breeders. In a time when major catalog updates can be found throughout the sale catalog, Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance discusses when and how to change a horse's insured value in Ask Your Insurer. Then, Nevills takes a look at the new weanling sires in the Keeneland November sale in First-Crop Sire Watch.

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Derby Winner Authentic ‘Very Smooth’ In Final Work Before Preakness Stakes

Spendthrift Farm, MyRaceHorse Stable, Madaket Stable and Starlight Racing's Kentucky Derby (Grade I) winner Authentic finalized his major preparation for Saturday's $1 million Preakness Stakes (GI) with a half-mile move in :47.60 Monday morning at Churchill Downs.

With jockey Martin Garcia aboard, Authentic worked at 7:30 a.m. (all times Eastern) through splits of :12.20, :24 and :36. Authentic continued to gallop out around the turn and clocked five furlongs in 1:00. He completed his work with a six-furlong gallop out time of 1:13.40.

“He's such an amazing horse,” Garcia said following the work. “He worked awesome. I've worked a lot of nice horses for trainer Bob Baffert in California and this horse is just as special. He's doing amazing for the Preakness.”

Baffert was on hand in Louisville to watch Authentic's final move along with staff members from Spendthrift Farm.

“It looked like he went in :50,” Spendthrift Farm's sales manager Mark Toothaker said. “He is very smooth.”

Authentic is scheduled to fly from Louisville to Baltimore on Tuesday along with a host of other local Preakness contenders. Among the other Preakness contenders based at Churchill Downs is George Hall and SportBLX Thoroughbreds' Max Player. The Kentucky Derby fifth-place runner worked an easy half-mile in :49.80 Monday for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen.

The post position draw for the Preakness is Monday at 12 p.m.

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PR Special Keeneland September: How Canadian Consignors Are Navigating Uncertain Times

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It's opening day of the bellwether Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and the Paulick Report has the insight and analysis you need in today's edition of the PR Special newsletter.

In this edition, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills checks in with Canadian-based consignors Bernard McCormack and David Anderson to see how the restrictions surrounding COVID-19 have affected how they'll sell horses during the September sales and beyond.

This issue's Stallion Spotlight features Mark Toothaker of Spendthrift Farm discussing Cross Traffic, the leading freshman sire of his class. Dr. Bart Barber of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital offers his opinion on the medication policies implemented by sale companies in Ask Your Veterinarian, and we look at the young sires already making an impression in the prestigious Book 1 of the Keeneland September Sale in Young Sire Watch.

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