{"id":11787,"date":"2018-06-23T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=11787"},"modified":"2018-06-23T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:26:32","slug":"stud-notes-shakin-wesley-ward-always-shakin-ascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/stud-notes-shakin-wesley-ward-always-shakin-ascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Stud Notes: Shakin It Up and Wesley Ward, Who is Always Shakin\u2019 It Up at Ascot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Spendthrift Farm\u2019s freshman stallion Shakin It Up is having one heck of a June. Two of his first-time starters became winners on debut, propelling the stallion, who stands for $5000, to number five on the freshman sires list. The handsome son of Midnight Lute did not demonstrate unusual precocity at two, but was a G1 winner at three in the Malibu S.<\/p>\n

On June 1, his son B.B. Dude, owned by Jerry Durant and trained by Steve Asmussen, fought hard to take a maiden special weight at Churchill Downs by \u00be of a length in his first out. The colt was bred by Sally Thomas and New Dawn Stable, LLC.<\/p>\n

Then, on June 21, Stirred took the third at Santa Anita, another maiden special weight, by a length. Ridden by Drayden Van Dyke and trained by Michael McCarthy, she was a $52,000 Keeneland September yearling, and a $150,000 Ocala Breeders Sale March two-year old, and is now owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners. The filly was bred by Sally Thomas and New Dawn Stable.<\/p>\n

In other news, the piratical Wesley Ward has once again stormed Ascot and come away with the booty, shanghaiing the Group 2 Norfolk S. with the only filly in this race for two-year olds, Shang Shang Shang, by Shanghai Bobby. This is Ward\u2019s tenth win at Ascot, a new record for non-European trainers, and it was the result of a gutsy ride by Joel Rosario, who got the filly up by a very short nose. Owned by Breeze Easy, LLC, this filly is now two for two, as in her only other start she broke her maiden at Keeneland in a maiden special weight. Royal Ascot isn\u2019t over yet\u2014expect to see more of the top-hatted Ward beaming while getting trophies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" Spendthrift Farm\u2019s freshman stallion Shakin It Up is having one heck of a June. Two of his first-time starters became winners on debut, propelling the stallion, who stands for $5000, to number five on the freshman sires list. The handsome son of Midnight Lute did not demonstrate unusual precocity at two, but was a G1 winner at three in the Malibu S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}