Artax, the 1999 champion sprinter, died on Jan. 8 at a hospital in
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, after suffering a bout of colic, according to
the farm where he had stood for the past two seasons.
Artax, who
was 17, had been standing at Haras Santa Tereza do Bom Retiro since the
2010 breeding season, as the property of a syndicate of Brazilian
breeders. He had shuttled between the U.S. and Brazil in 2009.
A sprint specialist on the racetrack, Artax was by Marquetry out of Raging Apalachee, by Apalachee.
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