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Grade 1-Placed Caracaro Retired To Crestwood Farm For 2021

Caracaro, a Grade 1-placed 3-year old by top-class sire Uncle Mo, out of a daughter of War Front, will enter stud at Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm in 2021.

He will stand his first year at stud for $6,500 LFSN.

Caracaro was bred by SF Bloodstock, LLC, and raised and raced by Global Thoroughbred, LLC.

“Caracaro from day one was very talented and performed brilliantly at the highest level,” said trainer Gustavo Delgado. “I consider Caracaro to be a horse in another category, and the best horse I have ever trained.”

“We are excited to stand Caracaro, a quality Grade 1 performing son of Uncle Mo, who is proving himself to be a sire of sires” said Pope McLean Sr. “Three of the top four freshman sires by earnings, are sons of Uncle Mo. Caracaro was dominant breaking his maiden at Gulfstream Park and was labeled a TDN Rising Star. He followed that up with a pair of runner-up finishes at Saratoga in the Grade 3 Peter Pan and $1-million G1 Travers Stakes. Caracaro has a lot to offer breeders as a Grade 1 performer by Uncle Mo, out of a War Front mare.”

Caracaro was a TDN Rising Star winning a one-mile maiden special weight in 1:35, the best time at a mile for a 3-year-old during the championship meeting at Gulfstream Park in 2020. After a six-month respite, Caracaro finished a determined second by a neck, battling Country Grammer to the wire in the G3 Peter Pan at Saratoga, followed by runner-up finish in the G1 Travers behind four-time Grade 1 Winner Tiz The Law.

Caracaro competed at an elite level, with improving speed figures in each race, and a top Beyer Speed Figure of 101 in the Travers.

Caracaro defeated graded stakes-quality runners including Jesus' Team who ran a terrific second in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile; Mystic Guide, winner of the G2 Jim Dandy and second in the G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup; Grade 2 winner Modernist; and Grade 3 winners Max Player, Country Grammer; and Uncle Chuck, among others.

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Sir Dudley Digges To Enter Stud In Ontario Following Keeneland November Sale

Sir Dudley Digges, the winner of the 2016 Queen's Plate, will begin his stallion career at the Orangeville, Ontario farm of horseman Cole Bennett after the horse sold for $6,700 Wednesday at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Canadian Thoroughbred reports.

The 7-year-old son of Gio Ponti has been dormant since June 2019, bringing an end to a racing career that saw him win seven of 32 starts for earnings of $939,690. His resume is highlighted by a victory in the 2016 Queen's Plate, the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. He went on to sixth in the Prince of Wales Stakes in Fort Erie, then he returned to form to run second in the Breeders' Stakes.

A well-traveled runner, Sir Dudley Digges went on in later campaigns to win the Old Friends Stakes at Kentucky Downs, and venture all the way to Barbados to win the 2018 Barbados Gold Cup for owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey.

Bred in Ontario by Bernard and Karen McCormack, Sir Dudley Digges is out of the stakes-winning Kris S. mare My Pal Lana, whose five foals to race are all winners.

Bennett, an owner and trainer, told Canadian Thoroughbred that eligible mares would be allowed to stay and breed at the farm this coming spring with no boarding charges. Plans are also in the works to offer bonuses to 2-year-old maiden special weight winners by the new stallion.

Classic-Placed Bravazo To Join Calumet Farm Stallion Roster In 2021

Bravazo (by Awesome Again), a homebred runner for Calumet Farm, will be the newest addition to the farm's stallion roster in the 2021 season.

The D. Wayne Lukas trainee accumulated over $2 million in career earnings. At two, he was second in the Grade 1 Claiborne Futurity Stakes. Early in his 3-year-old season, he won the G2 Risen Star Stakes, which propelled him into the Triple Crown where he finished a close second in the Preakness Stakes, beaten only a half-length by Justify, the eventual Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year.

Bravazo continued his 3-year-old summer campaign with a second-place finish in the G1 Haskell Invitational Stakes, followed by a third in the G1 Runhappy Travers Stakes. Bravazo went on to run for a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and a second in the G1 Clark Handicap.

Bravazo is by Awesome Again out of Tiz o' Gold by Cee's Tizzy. His stud fee for 2021 will be $6,000 with discounts given for multiple mare packages and quality mares.

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Grade 1 Winner Fog Of War Retires To Questroyal/Hidden Lake Farm In New York For 2021

Chris Bernhard has announced that Fog of War, a Grade 1 juvenile stakes winner, will stand the 2021 season at Questroyal / Hidden Lake Farm near Stillwater, N.Y.

A $400,000 Keeneland September yearling consigned by Gainesway, Fog of War was purchased by White Birch Farm and raced under the colors of Peter M. Brant his entire career.

A precocious 2-year-old, Fog of War won his career debut in an $85,000 maiden special weight at Saratoga, defeating a $800,000 OBS 2-year-old and a $725,000 son of Curlin in a field of nine, racing 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf in 1:03.92. A month later, Fog of War met up with War of Will in a duel to the wire to capture the Grade 1 Summer Stakes at Woodbine over the eventual Preakness Stakes victor in a winning time of 1:33.90 at a mile on the turf.

At three, he was caught at the wire by future Grade 1 winner Win Win Win in the Manila Stakes at Belmont Park, racing one mile on the turf in 1:31.56, just 33/100ths off the course record. The 4-year-old was recently retired after finishing on the board in the G3 Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 4.

Fog of War's sire War Front, has perennially ranked among the top 25 sires in the United States. He is the sire of three champions, a four-time highweight in Europe, 95 stakes winners, and 465 winners of 1,271 races, with earnings of nearly $75 million. He is sire of 21 seven-figure sale yearlings and stands at Claiborne Farm for a fee of $150,000.

Fog of War's dam Say, a daughter of Galileo, was a Group 3 winner in Ireland, earning $158,325, and she finished in the top three in five stakes in Ireland and Great Britain.

She produced two full-brothers to Fog of War – Invader, a $500,000 Keeneland September yearling who won the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes by 6 1/4 lengths, and Naval Intelligence (exported to Hong Kong and renamed Gold Chest), a stakes-winner in Great Britain and handicap winner in Hong Kong.

Fog of War's second dam Riskaverse is a multiple Grade 1 winner of $2,182,429. A stakes winner and Grade 1-placed at two, she captured the G1 Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes twice, the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes, and she won or placed in ten other graded events. At the 2005 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale the daughter of Dynaformer commanded $5 million as a racing/broodmare prospect.

This is the family of 2011 Horse of the Year and champion older mare Havre De Grace. Following her career, she was purchased as a broodmare prospect at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale for a record $10 million by Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm.

Chris Larsen commented, “I'm excited to partner with Peter Brant to bring Fog of War to stud in New York. This will give breeders access to the world's most successful sire lines Peter and I love, as well as taking advantage of the lucrative New York State breeder awards and restricted racing programs. We think Fog of War is destined to be New York State's great sire.”

Peter M. Brant of White Birch farm added, “Fog of War's win first time out at Saratoga and his Grade 1 victory in the “Win and You're In” Summer Stakes at Woodbine beating War of Will, showed us that he was our best colt of that crop and marked him as one of the clear favorites for the 2018 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf. Unfortunately, Fog bucked his shins and would not make the race but his undefeated 2-year-old campaign managed to show everyone his brilliant turn of foot and class. Fog of War has all the makings of a potentially high-class stallion with his conformation, pedigree and speed. I am so thrilled Fog will have the opportunity to be an exciting freshman stallion in New York and also allow White Birch Farm to be a new player in the New York State breeding and racing program.”

Fog of War stands as property of White Birch Farm Inc. and Three C Stables LLC with a stud fee set at $7,000, live foal stands and nurses. A limited number of lifetime breeding rights are available.

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