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Birdstone Silks

Birdstone

9 year old Horse | Retired
Owner(s):
Marylou Whitney Stable
Trainer:
Nicholas P. Zito
Bred:
Kentucky (USA) by Marylou Whitney Stable
Pedigree:
Grindstone  -  Dear Birdie  by  Storm Bird
Rating:
 
 
Birdstone at Stud
Gainesway
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What the Horse Racing Nation is talking about...

One morning the week of the Kentucky Derby, trainer Tim Ice was asked if he thought the race might be a little ambitious for Summer Bird, who at that point had raced just three times. His career had begun just two months earlier at Oaklawn Park, with a fourth-place finish in a maiden race. Summer Bi...Read More
The third leg of racing’s Triple Crown has been the undoing of many champions aspiring for all-time greatness.  It is the site of many historical performances and it’s place in racing’s landscape as big and broad as the racetrack over which it’s contested.  Read More
I’ve been coming to the Japan Cup every year but one since 1993 and have yet to see an American-trained horse win. The first couple of years were promising: Kotashaan finished second, a length and a quarter behind Legacy World in 1993, and Paradise Creek was nosed ...Read More
Birdstone, sire of two of the three United States classic winners this year, will stand in 2010 for $30,000, up from $10,000, at the Beck family's Gainesway Farm near Lexington.Read More
That this is an exceptional crop of second-year sires is not exactly news any more. Still, the point was hammered home again at the weekend, when two second-season horses were represented by grade I winners. Read More
Summer Bird secured his place atop the 3-year-old division with his resounding victory in the slop in the $1-million Shadwell Travers Stakes.Read More
The weekend brought a couple of new players to the 3-year-old scene and also underlined just how strong the second-crop sires are.Read More
Sheikh Mohammed's agent, John Ferguson, went to $400,000 to acquire a son of Birdstone as the top-priced offering at the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale in Lexington July 20.Read More
As a tribute to Birdstone’s remarkable feat of siring two different winners of a Triple Crown race in the same year (the first stallion to do so since Count Fleet in 1951), and from his first crop no less, I am re-printing my 2004 Belmont Stakes recap from the Blood-Horse. (Sorry, it’s pretty long).Read More
Another Triple Crown season has come and gone, and as usual it did not disappoint. Many of the happenings would have been impossible to predict, however, such as:Read More
Summer Bird might have won the race, but the real winner might have actually been Marylou Whitney and Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky.Why? Well, Summer Bird and Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird come from the same father, Birdstone, who won the 2004 Belmont Stakes. Birdstone is owned by Whitney a...Read More
Ok, I am officially smitten with Mine That Bird. I admit to being one of those misguided souls who paid no attention to him before the Kentucky Derby other than to comment what a beautiful mover he was. After the Preakness and seeing him on the Belmont track Thursday morning, I have to say in simple...Read More
But the other unknown bird, Summer Bird, also flew past a bunch of rivals in the latter part of the race to finish sixth at 43-1. That effort didn’t gain Summer Bird much notoriety, but it did move his connections to try another classic -- the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) June 6. Like Mine That Bird, Summ...Read More
There was a quote from D. Wayne Lukas in Saturday’s New York Post suggesting the distances of the Triple Crown races be changed to 1 1/8 miles, 1 3/16 miles, and 1 1/4 miles. Lukas said, “Nobody cares about mile and a half horses any more. The living proof is that every Belmont winner winds up in It...Read More
If there’s one thing that never hurt a fledgling stallion’s career, it’s a “big horse” in the first crop to race – especially a Classic winner. Thanks to Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra, respectively, both Birdstone and Medaglia d’Oro have achieved the distinction of becoming Classic sires with ...Read More
Dealing with new shooters, ones that lie in wait in Baltimore or New York, is one of the biggest obstacles on the Triple Crown trail. An opponent with fresh legs is right there with the three racetracks and three distances crammed into five weeks to explain why the last Triple Crown winner was in 19...Read More
 Why does Birdstone continue to hate us?At this point, it should be quite apparent that this horse has a serious chip on his withers.When Mine That Bird snuck his Eohippus-sized body up the rail to win the 135th Kentucky Derby, it was his sire, Birdstone, taking off his white glove and smacking...Read More
It was unlike anything seen before in the Run for the Roses, or anywhere for that matter. Where it came from, no one knows. But you can bet all eyes will be glued to Mine That Bird in the Preakness to see if he can do it again. This will either prove to be one of the biggest fluke performances of al...Read More
Birdstone just gained a large dose of respect as a young sire with Mine That Bird's stunning victory in the 135th Kentucky Derby.Birdstone, who won the Belmont and Travers stakes when he was a 3-year-old, is a son of 1996 Derby winner Grindstone. He finished eighth in the Derby, but those graded sta...Read More
 Still cannot believe what I saw in the Derby. I thought my Derby top Pioneerof The Nile was the winner turning for home, but Calvin Borel and Mine That Bird (Birdstone) were flying along the rail and rolled past my top with ease in a shocking Kentucky Derby triumph! The winner p...Read More

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Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video10/30/047thLSE Prado91 1/4 mDBreeders' Cup Classic-G103 MGhostzapperRoses In MayPleasantly Perfect1:59.02
View DetailsView Video08/28/041stSarE Prado111 1/4 mDTravers-G103 MBirdstoneThe Cliff's EdgeEddington2:02.45
View DetailsView Video06/05/041stBelE Prado111 1/2mDBelmont Stakes-G103 MBirdstoneSmarty JonesRoyal Assault2:27.50
View DetailsView Video05/01/048thCDE Prado101 1/4 mDKentucky Derby-G103 MSmarty JonesLion HeartImperialism2:04.06
View Details10/04/031stBelJ Bailey71 1/16 mDChampagne-G102 MBirdstoneChapel RoyalDashboard Drummer1:44.05
View Details08/30/034thSarE Prado87 fDHopeful-G103 MSilver WagonChapel RoyalNotorious Rogue1:23.47

 

 

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