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Due To Minor Issue, Tacitus Will Miss Dubai World Cup For Second Straight Year Sponsored by: Tacitus in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 18 Juddmonte Farm's Tacitus will not make his next expected start in the March 27 Dubai World Cup, reports the  Daily Racing Form. The gray son of Tapit and champion Close Hatches may have banged his hind leg on something and was found to be sore for several days, said Juddmonte general manager Garrett O'Rourke. “They checked him out and recommended just to walk him for a few weeks. Hopefully nothing serious there, but everything has to go perfect for a rac...

Pedigree fun facts: Greatest Honour Feb 1, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com As a Tapit colt out of a half-sister to two Belmont S. (G1) winners, Greatest Honour has the third jewel of the Triple Crown written all over him. So it’s highly encouraging that he’s burst onto the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail with a stellar display as early as the Holy Bull (G3). The Courtlandt Farms homebred became Tapit’s second major contender for the 2021 Derby, after Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) champion Essential Quality. Tapit also has the promising Proxy, runner-up in the Lecomte (G3).  From the si...

Sponsored by: Frank's Rockette wins the G2 Gallant Bloom Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said he has no long-term 2021 goals for multiple Grade 2 winner Frank's Rockette, adding it's simply one step at a time. That first step begins with the $150,000 American Beauty Stakes for older female sprinters Saturday at Oaklawn. The 6-furlong race marks a homecoming of sorts for Frank's Rockette, a homebred for prominent North Little Rock, Ark., businessman Frank Fletcher who finished second in the $100,000 Purple Martin Stakes for 3-year-old filly sprinters last April at Oaklawn. Frank's Roc...

Juddmonte Farms Reveals 2021 Mating Plans For U.S. Broodmare Band Sponsored by: Owners and fans cheer Close Hatches following her win in the Ogden Phipps Juddmonte is pleased to announce the 2021 mating plans for some of its high-profile horses in the U.S. In June 2020, Juddmonte suffered a major setback with the loss of champion Arrogate. In his first and only three seasons, he was heavily supported by top Juddmonte families. For 2021, it was imperative that Juddmonte bridged that gap with some other top stallions in Kentucky. Exciting young stallion Constitution will receive ample...

UPDATED 6:37PM, JAN 12 2021 Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms ranks as one of the world's most prestigious and productive breeding operations. It has few peers, with only perhaps the Aga Khan Studs and Coolmore able to match its strength in depth and achievements. At the last count, Juddmonte had bred 113 individual Group/Grade 1 winners of 220 elite races, including 28 Classic winners. Its produce includes household names such as Frankel, Enable and Zafonic. The seeds of such spectacular success were sown in the 1970s when the young owner, a scion of the Saudi royal family but self-...