All Equine All The Time

European Horse of the Year Giant's Causeway has a unique distinction this year With England’s 2,000 Guineas taking place on Saturday, everyone now has a good idea who will be lining up in Newmarket with trainers entering 17 3-year-olds earlier this week. The list may get smaller in the upcoming days but one thing nearly guaranteed: some of the best pedigrees on both sides of the Atlantic will be represented in this weekend’s English classic. Possibly the biggest surprise is that super-stallion Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) is the sire of only one horse on the current entry list. But he still won’t be forgotten in this year’s 2,000 Guineas as he is the grandsire of two entries and the damsire of two others. That of course helps his sire Sadler’s Wells, who is represented by seven horses in the race. In addition to Galileo’s contributions, Montjeu is the damsire of one run while Doyen is the other damsire on Sadler’s Wells list in this race. War Front is a fitting name for the U...

Tapit is represented by three horses Perhaps the most international event of the year in horse racing, Dubai World Cup night brings together horses from all sides of the world from Australia to England and Ireland to Hong Kong with nearly everything in between. Of course with a large group of horses running from different parts of the world also comes a wide range of sires and broodmare sires. At this year’s festival, 58 different sires and 68 different broodmare sires are represented in a variety of races from a six furlong dirt sprint to a two-mile turf race. Showing the versatility of some of the bloodlines represented, some sires and damsires can be seen in both sprint and route races. Meydan has been Dubawi’s (Dubai Millennium) personal playground the last few years and Saturday will be no different for the Darley stallion. The 14-year-old holds the most entries of any sire on the night with six ranging from the six furlong Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen Sponsored by Gulf News ...

A Group 1 winner at 2 years of age and multiple Group 1 placed at 3, Siyouni (Pivotal) retired at the end of 2010 to the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval for €7,000 (approx. $7,571US/£5,277). His first crop came out running in 2014 with 12 of his 2-year-olds winning at least one race, according to Racing Post. That group was led by 2-year-old Group 3 winners Ervedya, Souvenir Delondres and Bourree who would go on to make an even bigger impact on their sire's resume in 2015. Video courtesy of France Sire When Siyouni’s 93 horses of racing age hit the track last year, they built on his first year success with 45 winners giving him a 48.39 percent win rate. By the end of the year, he had 75 wins with five stakes winners and nine stakes wins to lead all European Second-Crop sires by earnings on Racing Post’s rankings with £1,737,065 (approx. $2,493,035US/€2,304,105). His group 3 winning 2-year-old Ervedya bettered that result in 2015 when she went four-for-five in her starts, w...