SF Racing names stallion after Olympic hockey hero Jack Hughes

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SF Racing and its companions identify 2-year-old colt fuse A ceremony was held Tuesday to honor American hockey star Jack Hughes, who scored the time beyond regulation objective that gave the U.S. staff its first males’s Olympic gold medal in 46 years.

Tom Ryan, managing associate of SF Racing, introduced the naming on social media, calling the Hughes household “the center of the 2026 Olympics.”

“His speech, his will to win and that golden objective second captured the whole lot that’s proper concerning the sport,” Ryan wrote in X.

The New Jersey Devils middle scored a objective 1 minute, 41 seconds into time beyond regulation on Saturday within the gold medal sport on the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, giving america a 2-1 victory over Canada. This was the primary U.S. males’s hockey gold medal for the reason that 1980 Miracle on Ice staff in Lake Placid.

The stallion Hughes is a sire of KP Dreamin (Union Rags) and Into Mischief. Donato Lani signed the colt for $675,000 in the course of the 2025 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, with Blandford Stud consigning the colt on behalf of producer Breffni Farm. The colt will be a part of Corridor of Fame coach Bob Baffert’s secure for the 2026 juvenile season.

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Ryan identified that there’s an extra household connection to the Hughes surname. Pat Hughes, father of spouse Katie, received three Stanley Cups throughout a 10-year NHL profession with the Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers and 4 different franchises. The 2 Hughes households aren’t associated.

The stallion’s possession group seems like a well-known roll name within the sport: SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stone Road Stables, Bashor Racing, Albaugh Household Stables, Robert Masterson Stables, Golconda Stables, Waves Edge Capital and Catherine Donovan. The partnership, sometimes called the “Avengers,” has campaigned Baffert and a number of other high-profile runners in recent times.

Into Mischief is a timeless stallion representing North America, belongs to Spendthrift Farm, and led the final stallion record from 2019 to 2025. His offspring embrace 2020 Horse of the 12 months Genuine, who additionally wore SF Racing colours early in his profession.

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