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Zedan Racing Stables’ Taiba, winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, G1 Pennsylvania Derby and G1 Malibu Stakes as a 3-year-old a year ago, has been retired from racing and taken up residency at Spendthrift Farm, where he will begin his stud career in 2024.
Spendthrift Farm has announced it will be adding Grade 1 winners Taiba, Zandon and Arabian Lion to its stallion roster for the 2024 breeding season.
With an Eclipse Award for champion 3-year-old male perhaps in the balance, Bob Baffert’s Taiba made one last emphatic appeal for votes as he dominated Santa Anita’s traditional opening day feature, the $300,000 Runhappy Malibu (G1) by 4 ¼ lengths, thus becoming North America’s lone sophomore to annex three Grade 1 races in 2022.
Kentucky Derby week has arrived, and the hype is beginning to build for the 2022 edition of the Run for the Roses...
This season’s Kentucky Derby preps have come and gone. Barring defections, the top 20 spots on the Derby leaderboard are locked up, and we know which horses are likely to enter the starting gate on the first Saturday in May.Up until this point, this list had been a hybrid of one handicapper’s opinion and runners likely to make the field. Now, though, we can exclusively focus on the top 20 horses on the leaderboard.