Grade 1 winner Sweet Lulu sold for $3 million to Summer Wind Farm to rank among top prices Monday evening at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.
Isn’t He Clever won the eighth stakes race of his career Monday, when he wired a field of older horses in the $55,000 Veterans at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. He drew clear by three lengths over Forest Mouse, while it was another neck back in third to Ol Winedrinker Who.
Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar sold to Japan's Shadai Farm for $3.1 million to take over as the top price at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale Monday night in Lexington, Ky.
Regally-bred graded stakes winner La Cloche set the bar high early at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, selling for $2.4 million to Don Alberto Corp.
Gainesway stallion Tapit, who recently broke the single-year record for North American progeny earnings, will stand for an advertised fee of $300,000 during the 2015 breeding season.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 11/5 card at Balmoral Park.
Ken Walters' analysis of the Wednesday 11/5 card at Northfield Park.
Trainer Chad Brown brought 11 horses to Santa Anita and ran in six of the 13 Breeders’ Cup events held between Friday and Saturday. Brown ran one-two in the $2 million Filly and Mare Turf with Dayatthespa and Stephanie’s Kitten; he won the $1 million Turf Sprint with Bobby’s Kitten, who rallied from last; and he also took Friday’s $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf with Lady Eli.
Now what? That’s the question Eclipse Award voters will be asking over the next two months after a Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita that had the promise of emphatically deciding both Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male, but ended in controversy.
Talent versus experience will be factors in handicapping Wednesday’s $56,000 New York-bred second-level allowance feature when the talented duo of Blithely and Sister Margaret meet the impressive last-out winner La Bella Valeria going six furlongs at Aqueduct.
