Indiana sire Arromanches dies at age 20
Arromanches, sire of multiple Grade 2 winner Caixa Eletronica, died in his paddock Wednesday night at age 20.
Joe NevillsAug 15, 2013
Arromanches, sire of multiple Grade 2 winner Caixa Eletronica, died in his paddock Wednesday night at age 20.
The recent Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling and New York-bred preferred yearling sales both enjoyed robust trade and concluded with outstanding key measures, including double-digit spikes in average and median prices and substantially lower buyback rates. Following a solid beginning to the yearling auction season at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July, the Saratoga sales reaffirmed a level of market stability that has not been seen since the prerecession years of 2006 and 2007.
The Kentucky Horse Council has hired Susan Schneider as its executive director, effective Aug. 21.
The $2.4-million All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs is billed as North America’s richest race on the calendar for 2-year-olds of any breed, but a number of entries in the flagship Quarter Horse race’s 28 trials are the direct progeny of Thoroughbreds.
The lawsuit to allow cloned horses to enter the American Quarter Horse Association registry saw action once again on August 12, when a district court judge announced that she will enter an injunction requiring the AQHA to register clones and their offspring.
One of two companies that applied to slaughter horses and earlier this year was granted a permit to open has now dropped the plan, saying it will focus on beef instead.
Allan Murray, owner of Murmur Farm and Berkley Training Center in Darlington, Md., died August 13 at age 80.
Daily Racing Form’s senior bloodstock correspondent, Glenye Cain Oakford, spoke with John Stuart of Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services before Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale.
Due Diligence took command early and never looked back, showing a powerful kick down the stretch to win his debut effort by 7 1/2 lengths on Monday at Saratoga Race Course.
Last weekend offered a comparatively light graded stakes schedule in North America compared to what came before and what’s on the immediate horizon, but there was no shortage of star power as reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan returned to the Saratoga turf in an attempt to score a repeat win in the Grade 2 Fourstardave Handicap, and champion female sprinter Groupie Doll made her first appearance of 2013 in the Grade 3 Gardenia Stakes at Ellis Park, a race she won in 2011.