Super Saver represented by first winner at Belmont
Super Saver, winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, was represented by his first winner as I Spent It took his career debut Wednesday at Belmont Park.
DRF Breeding StaffJul 02, 2014
Super Saver, winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, was represented by his first winner as I Spent It took his career debut Wednesday at Belmont Park.
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Barretts Sales and Thoroughbred Owners of California will host “Buying a Racehorse,” a free new owners’ seminar and preview of the Barretts Paddock Sale at Del Mar on Sunday, July 20.
David and JoAnn Hayden’s Dark Hollow Farm was represented by two blue ribbon winners, including the grand champion, on Sunday at the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s Maryland-bred yearling show.
The continuing proliferation of “championship meetings” around the world has made it much more difficult to declare with any degree of certainty what is the world’s highest-class race meeting. This year, Australia added a championship week in emulation of similar meetings in the United States, Dubai, Hong Kong, Great Britain, and France, to name only the most prestigious.
If July is traditionally the month when the North American breeding and sales sectors shift attention to the approaching major yearling auctions, it is also the month when fans begin to pay full attention to emerging 2-year-olds on the racetrack.
Dr. Edward Allred, the president and CEO of Los Alamitos Race Course, has been selected by the Thoroughbred Owners of California to receive the 2013 Ed Friendly Industry Service Award.
Sea The Stars, Europe’s Horse of the Year in 2009, will cover a limited book of mares at his home base in Ireland during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season for an advertised base fee of about $115,680 (85,000 Euros).
Applications are now available for The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program’s (T.I.P.) 2014 Performance Awards.
James B. Tafel, owner and breeder of 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, died Wednesday in his home at the Village of Golf, Fla. He was 90.
Steve and Shelley Johnson and Dr. Joseph and Lynn Fowler have sold their interests in the Midway, Ky.-based Margaux Farm to Jim and Susan Hill of Calgary, Alberta.