Sid Fernando + Frances J. Karon: Observations

Sid Fernando + Frances J. Karon: Observations

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March 2025

Mercante rewards owner-breeder Pollard and his champion filly from 25 years ago
More than two decades after her championship season, Caressing's last foal by Gun Runner is on the scene as a graded stakes winner
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Final Gambit one of three stakes winners for Not This Time on Saturday
And Tapit breaks new ground with Tiztastic
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Freshman sires catch the eye at OBS
Million-dollar Maxfields and an Independence Hall
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Sons of Candy Ride firing on all cylinders
Gun Runner is established, while Vekoma and Game Winner have first-crop 3-year-olds
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February 2025

Kentucky’s percentage of US foal crop surges
Appetite for breeding in other states has decreased
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Giant’s Causeway as a sire of sires; broodmare sire of a sire; and a broodmare sire
Son Not This Time and grandson Gun Runner topped headlines over the weekend
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Inbreeding to the broodmare sire of the sire
Legendary authority Leon Rasmussen utilized the concept
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More context to HISA’s predicament
FTC chair’s tweet is revealing
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HISA appears to be in a precarious position
New FTC chair is ‘anti-regulatory’ to begin with
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Slow start to breeding season discussed with Byk
Discussion instigated by Sue Finley’s must-read piece in Wednesday’s TDN
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January 2025

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