Swifty Farms adds Cashel Castle and Wolfcamp to roster
Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., will add a pair of relocating stallions to its roster for the 2017 breeding season, Cashel Castle and Wolfcamp.
Joe NevillsAug 02, 2016
Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., will add a pair of relocating stallions to its roster for the 2017 breeding season, Cashel Castle and Wolfcamp.
Grade 2 winner Wilburn has been sold to Rockin’ Z Ranch in Beggs, Okla., where he will stand the 2017 breeding season.
Grade 1 winner Victor’s Cry has been sold to Holden Thoroughbred and Running Quarter Horse Farm in Greenfield, Ind., where he will stand the 2017 breeding season.
The prognosis for the 2016 yearling market among consignors is so uniform it feels as though a cue card of talking points had been passed around the sale grounds. Almost to the number, they describe the increasingly selective nature of the market, with buyers swarming toward the horses with the fewest perceived flaws and driving up their prices trying to land them. Then their tone gets somber as they express concerns over the uneasy status of the middle market and the near-disappearance of the lower market.
The family of 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta is having an active summer in advance of the mare's Hall of Fame induction on Aug. 12.
Two-time Horse of the Year Curlin enjoyed another stellar weekend as he puts together a career year as a stallion, with three graded stakes winners in less than 24 hours.
Claiborne Farm stalwart Seeking the Gold, who died last week at age 31, will have an enduring impact for generations thanks to his outstanding résumé as a broodmare sire, as evidenced by Lord Nelson's victory in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes on Sunday at Del Mar.
The Juddmonte juggernaut rolled into Saratoga on Saturday in the imposing form of Flintshire, who added a sixth graded stakes win to his globe-trotting record with an easy victory in the Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes.
Seeking the Gold, a Grade 1 winner and prominent sire at Claiborne Farm, was euthanized Thursday due to the infirmities of old age. He was 31.
Lane’s End Texas, a top breeding operation in the state, has closed, and the operation’s three stallions – Too Much Bling, Grasshopper, and Congaree – have been relocated to Valor Farm in Pilot Point, Texas.