Twyla Tharp, dam of reigning European champion filly The Fugue, became the first horse at this year's Tattersalls December breeding stock sale to bring seven figures when she sold for over $2.8 million Monday in Newmarket, England.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gary Barber announced Monday that their Grade 1 winner In Lingerie has been retired from racing. The 3-year-old Empire Maker filly will be bred to two-time Cartier European Horse of the Year and Juddmonte Farms stallion Frankel in 2013, his first season at Banstead Manor Farm in England.
Dual classic winner I’ll Have Another will enter stud for a fee of 3.2 million yen, or about $38,900, in 2013 at Big Red Farm in Hokkaido, Japan.
Toby's Corner, winner of the 2011 Wood Memorial Stakes, has been purchased for stallion duty by Hidaka Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan.
Fasig-Tipton will conduct its Midlantic December mixed sale on Monday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.
Tattersalls concluded its four-day sale of foals on Saturday with steady economic indicators and increased activity at all market levels, as the sale posted the best clearance rate in this century and surpassed the 24 million guineas mark for only the third time in history.
Grade 1 winner Taste of Paradise will stand the 2013 season at Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky. for a free of $2,500.
Coolmore's controversial 2007 decision to retire Holy Roman Emperor to stand in place of George Washington is starting to pay off.
An $840,000 Galileo colt bought by Fahad al-Thani’s Pearl Bloodstock was the sale’s most expensive foal after Friday’s session of the Tattersalls December foal sale in Newmarket, Engloand.
McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds released its 2013 stallion roster and fees Friday, headlined by Teuflesberg, sire of Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Trinniberg in his first crop.
