American stallions

GI Carter Handicap and GI Jaipur Invitational Stakes winner World of Trouble (Kantharos--Meets Expectations, by Valid Expectations) has reportedly been sold to a partnership of three Brazillian farms and will stand at Haras Rio Iguassú, according to the South American publication Turf Diario. The other two farms involved are Haras Cifra and Haras Palmerini. World of Trouble has stood since 2020 at Hill 'n' Dale Farms near Paris, Ky. and has 46 winners in his first two crops to race. His four black-type horses include Puerto Rican stakes winner Touch...

The Thoroughbred is certainly more versatile than we sometimes give it credit for. There is always the capacity to surprise, particularly when it comes to predicting stallion success. For instance, despite examples showing otherwise, it remains tempting to box sires as 'dirt' and 'turf' and 'American' and 'European' when actually some of them will prove capable of crossing the differing racing jurisdictions quite easily. Had all breeders and buyers remained on 'the straight and narrow', the chance to appreciate the likes of Scat Daddy, Medaglia d'Oro, More Than Ready and...