Article by John Gilmore: Peter Brant has owned and/or bred some of the finest horses to have graced racetracks for nearly 50 years - he has been involved in Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winners, Arc winners and Breeders’ Cup winners - but don’t think for one second that he is entirely comfortable with the direction the industry has been taking in recent years.
A couple of gambles were landed at Dundalk on January 21st and another of the night’s winners earned himself a trip to the Middle East for a tilt at a big.
Article by Nancy Sexton: With the death of Galileo, the world’s group of most expensive sires underwent a seismic shift. Galileo stood as a ‘private’ stallion for the last 14 years of his life, although off-the-record reports suggested that outside breeders were at one time happy to pay in excess of €500,000 to secure a nomination. As such, he cast a major shadow over this list as the world’s most expensive sire; now gone, that accolade falls to Darley’s flagship sire Dubawi.
Dubawi is one of three British-based sires, alongside Juddmonte’s Frankel and Kingman, to sit within the top four stallions. The outlier is Into Mischief, the dominant sire of the current era in America who heads a group of four Kentucky-based sires alongside Tapit, Curlin and Uncle Mo.