MORE Than Ready, the broodmare sire of weekend group winner Aspen Grove, was euthanized last Friday at WinStar Stud due to the cumulative effects of old age. He was 25 and had covered this season at a fee of $50,000. He was a champion juvenile sire in the USA and Australia.

He won more than a million dollars in his racing career over two seasons, the highlight coming with victory in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop Stakes over seven furlongs. More Than Ready is the leading sire in history of individual winners, already more than 2,100 and growing, and he ranks fourth in the world among sires of stakes winners, with at least 216 in that cohort.