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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS
Awesome Patriot Son of Awesome Again, a full-brother to this year’s Preakness Stakes hero Oxbow, will stand at Spendthrift Farm next year.
Highly Recommended Group 2-winning son Fastnet Rock will stand at Berkley Stud in New Zealand at a fee of NZ$4,000.
Camacho Sire of talented sprinters Humidor, Winning Express and Ambiance will return to Morristown Lattin Stud in 2014 from Mickley Stud.
Snow Fairy Brilliant mare is retired aged six due to tendon injury; owned and bred by Cristina Patino and trained by Ed Dunlop, Snow Fairy won six Group 1s, including the English and Irish Oaks, two QEII Cups in Japan, the Hong Kong Cup and Irish Champion Stakes, banking almost £4 million in prize-money.
Weird Al
Sugar Boy
High-class chaser at his best, winner of the Charlie Hall Chase in 2011 for owners Andrew Brannon, Andrew Dick and Philip Holden, is retired aged ten.
Son of Authorized, last of nine behind Trading Leather in the Irish Derby, moves from Paddy Prendergast to Marco Botti following private purchase.
Borderlescott Dual winner of the Group 1 Nunthorpe who was retired last year goes back in to training with Robin Bastiman.
HORSE OBITUARIES
PEOPLE OBITUARIES John Ayres 60 Owned horses with Richard Lee, including 14-time winner Victory Gunner, and set up a company that manufactured jockeys’ safety equipment.
Tom Bannister 48 Point-to-point enthusiast who was a clerk of the course in that sphere and owned pointers Classinaglass and My Old Piano.
Werner Krbalek 101 Lightweight jockey in Germany before and after World War II, later becoming a trainer.
David Johnson 67 Champion jumps owner on six occasions, his best horses included Grand National winner Comply Or Die and top two-mile chaser Well Chief.
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Fasliyev 16 Champion juvenile when trained by Aidan O’Brien dies at stud in Japan, having sired more than 400 winners.
Guy Reed 91 Yorkshire-based owner/breeder who enjoyed Group 1 success with La Cucaracha, home-bred at his Copgrove Hall Stud.
Millkom 22 Won the Prix Jean Prat, Grand Prix de Paris and Man o’War Stakes for trainer Jean-Claude Rouget, and later sire of Group 1 winner Milk It Mick.
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