Horses from the first crops of Astrology, Caleb’s Posse, Star Guitar, and The Factor highlight the Breeders Sales Co. of Louisiana yearling auction, to be held Tuesday at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe. There are 220 yearlings catalogued to the sale, which starts at 11 a.m. Central.
The Equine Sales Co. of Louisiana has cataloged 214 horses to its open yearling and mixed sale Oct. 25, the auction house announced Thursday. The sale will be held in Opelousas.
Grade 3 winner Cigar Street has been purchased by Thomas J. Young and will make his debut at stud in 2016 at Young’s Sandringham Farm in Georgetown, Ky.
Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who campaigned top-level horses as Zabeel Racing International, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 33.
Vale of York, winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has been sold to the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club to stand at Haras des Faunes in Arveyres, France for the 2016 breeding season.
Here we go again. Another study on the effects of Lasix will be undertaken. No, make that two more studies.
Pauls Mill, a Versailles, Ky., stallion, boarding, and sales consignment operation is listed for sale with an $8.5-million asking price.
Dual leading American sire Storm Cat sired a worthy successor in three-time leading sire Giant’s Causeway, who with the help of other successful sons such as Hennessy and Tale of the Cat, has continued a thriving male line, but Storm Cat did sire two other leading sires. His son Bernstein topped the Argentine sire list in 2006 and 2007, and Pure Prize led the same list in each of the last two years. Both Bernstein and Pure Prize also have enjoyed some success in their native land, though not quite at the same level. The most recent success came in the victory of Pure Prize’s daughter Dothraki Queen in the Grade 2 Pocahontas Stakes on Sept. 12 at Churchill Downs.
A total of 2,103 stallions covered 37,244 mares in North America during the 2014 breeding season, resulting in 22,104 live foals in 2015, according to figures released Thursday by The Jockey Club.
The bellwether Keeneland September yearling sale kicked off its 12-day run on Monday with solid, if not spectacular, returns in the early hours of the opening session.
