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Frank Brothers To Retire

Frank Brothers will retire from his roles as a bloodstock agent and a member of Keeneland's yearling inspection team, he announced Friday morning in a press release. “I'm fortunate that my health is good,” he said. “I'm 76 years old and quite content to take a seat in the viewing area and watch the game for a while.”

After training horses from 1980 to 2009, Brothers moved into his current role of selecting horses for a few clients before ultimately partnering with Starlight and StarLadies Racing for the past 13 years. During this time, he has also served as a member of the Keeneland Yearling Inspection Team for the Keeneland September Sale.

“It's just time for me to move on. For a little guy, the training game was very good to me but it was time for me to make that transition back in 2009,” said Brothers, who won 2,291 races over the course of his career. His best horse, Hansel, was a multiple Grade I winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, and the 1991 3-year-old champion. Others in his barn included Grade I winners Secret Hello, Arch, Oath, Madcap Escapade, First Samurai, and the multiple graded stakes winner Pulpit.

“I was fortunate to have trained horses for some great people and then equally fortunate when Jack and Laurie Wolf asked me to join their team as bloodstock agent when I retired from training,” he said. “We've had a great deal of luck together—you'd always like to win more, but we did pretty good.” For Starlight Racing, Brothers recommended the purchase of Grade I winner Shanghai Bobby, the 2012 Champion 2-year-old, along with graded stakes winners Algorithms, Eskenformoney, Neolithic, Cutting Humor, and Jouster, among others.

Brothers was also on the Starlight Racing/SF Racing team that selected several graded stakes winners, including Grade I winners Charlatan, Eight Rings, and 2020 Kentucky Derby winner Authentic.

“Frankie's the best and we're going to miss him,” said Jack Wolf, Starlight's managing partner. “He feels like family to us at this point. But I respect his decision to retire and I can't blame him—it's a tough game.”

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American Freedom Relocates to Arkansas

GSW & MGISP American Freedom (Pulpit–Gottcha Last, by Pleasant Tap) has been sold to Bob and Tyree Wolesensky's Leadem Farm and will stand stud in Arkansas beginning the 2023 breeding season. American Freedom will command a stud fee of $3,500 LF.

He stood at Airdrie Stud his first four seasons. The purchase was facilitated by Brock Martin and Steve Castagnola of Taylor Made Sales Agency.

“We wanted to find the perfect match for Arkansas breeders and we are very happy with this beautiful son of Pulpit,” Tyree Wolesensky, President of Leadem Farm, said. “American Freedom is a quality dirt horse that gives breeders something to look forward to in the 2023 breeding season with his speed on the track and dazzling looks. We are very excited to introduce him to our customers in the southern Thoroughbred market and cannot wait for him to begin covering mares at our Arkansas farm this upcoming year.”

Trained by Bob Baffert for Gary and Mary West, American Freedom won the GIII Iowa Derby and was second in both the GI Travers S. and GI Haskell Invitational S.

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Thursday Racing Insights: Kitten’s Joy Homebred Debuts at Delaware

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COME ON KITTY CAT, a 3-year-old Kitten's Joy home-bred for Alex Campbell, Jr., debuts at Delaware Park Thursday. Out of the Pulpit mare The Right Pew, Come On Kitty Cat is a half-sister to eight winners including two graded stakes performers: Karlovy Vary (Dynaformer), winner of the GI Central Bank Ashland S. who herself went on to produce both back-to-back GII New York S. winner Mean Mary (Scat Daddy), and Bye Bye Melvin (Uncle Mo), who saw success in the GIII Saranac S.; and Rocket Legs (Dynaformer), a track record setter at the now-defunct Hollywood Park and second in the GII San Marcos S. Trained by Graham Motion, Come On Kitty Cat recently worked five furlongs May 7 on the all-weather track at Fair Hill in 1:01 1/5 (1/12). Jockey Jeremy Rose picks up the mount. TJCIS PPs

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Cazenovia College Expands Equine Breeding Program

Cazenovia College announced that Rascal Cat (Pulpit–Razzi Cat, by Storm Cat) has relocated to stand at their Equine Education Center for use in the Thoroughbred breeding program. Formerly part of a similar course at Arkansas State University, the stallion has 21% winners from 33 foals of racing age and was Arkansas' leading first crop sire in 2018. Out of Razzi Cat (Storm Cat), he's a half to a pair of multiple G1SWs in Argentina, Rocking Trick (Arg) (Phone Trick) and Randy Cat (Arg) (Roy) as well as stakes placed Song Cat (Unbridled's Song) in the States. He will stand for $1,000 in 2022.

“Rascal Cat has an ideal temperament to teach students live cover breeding and the pedigree to be appealing to breeders,” stated Dr. McGuire, who taught in the breeding program at ASU and now teaches at Cazenovia. “He will be valuable for helping train our students and interest young professionals in the breeding industry.”

Cazenovia College is located in Central New York, and has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's best colleges for eighteen consecutive years. Founded in 1824, it is the eighth oldest private, independent college in the state and the 28th oldest independent college/university in the country.

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