Prominent Florida stallion Tour d’Or, one of the last major stallions stemming from Secretariat’s male line, was euthanatized in late July after foundering. The 23-year-old Secretariat grandson by Canadian champion Medaille d’Or stood since the mid-1990s at P. Noel Hickey’s Irish Acres Farm near Ocala, Fla.

Hickey was the recipient of one of Tour d’Or’s 22 stakes winners. Colorful Tour, a homebred trained by Hickey, won seven stakes, including the 2003 Essex (gr. III) and Razorback (gr. III) Handicaps at Oaklawn Park.

Tour d’Or, who entered stud at Baker Thoroughbred Farm near Morriston, Fla., got out to a quick start at stud. His first crop yielded only two foals, but one of them, Royal d’Or, developed into a multiple stakes winner.

Tour d’Or, who raced through his 8-year-old season, achieved a number of highpoints in a career noted for siring sound runners. He sired the earners of $3.9 million in one year, and was represented in another by 28 juvenile winners. In two other years, he just missed the $3-million mark in progeny earnings