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A filly trotter, Future Secured sold for a record-equaling $500,000 during the first half of Monday’s opening day of the Standardbred Horse Sale. When the final price was hammered down, observers at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex responded with applause.
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The Keeneland November breeding stock sale got off to a flying start on Monday, as a pair of mares fetched seven-figure price tags within the first hour. And the session kept rolling.
Smack Smack rallied from just off the pace for a half-length win in the $55,000 Veterans Stakes on Monday at Zia Park. Ol Winedrinker Who, the favorite, rallied for second, while it was another three lengths back to Isn’t He Clever in third.
The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association has joined a group pressing for federal legislation that would give the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency the authority to devise and enforce national medication policies, but the organization also will press for significant changes to the current bill, the group said on Monday.
Grade 1 winner Lea, the runner-up Friday in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, on Monday arrived at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., where he will stand at stud for the 2016 breeding season for a fee of $12,500. He will be available for inspection starting Wednesday.
Florent Geroux’s breakthrough year continues unabated. In addition to winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Catch a Glimpse and the Turf Sprint aboard Mongolian Saturday, the 29-year-old Frenchman won the Fort Springs Stakes aboard 10-1 shot Meshell as darkness began to envelop Keeneland on Breeders’ Cup Saturday.
Mark Casse was the focus of one of the many great stories from the two-day Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland, breaking his career-long Breeders’ Cup drought by winning the Juvenile Fillies Turf with Catch a Glimpse and the Mile with Tepin.
Uzziel, who was vanned from the winner’s circle to the backstretch Sunday after winning the $200,250 Goldikova Stakes at Del Mar, was “still a little off” in a foreleg Monday, said trainer Keith Desormeaux.
Two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, who enjoyed an outstanding season with his progeny this year, will get a major fee hike to $100,000 for 2016, Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms announced on Monday.
