Teuflesberg, sire of recent Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Trinniberg, has been purchased by Joe McMahon of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds and will stand at the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., farm for the 2013 breeding season. He is being re-syndicated and his stud fee will be announced later. An 8-year-old son of Johannesburg, Teuflesberg stood at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., this year for a fee of $3,500.
Perfect Soul, currently ranked sixth on Canada's general sire list, will stand at Darby Darn Farm in Lexington, Ky., next year for a fee of $7,500. He had stood at Darby Dan from his initial season at stud, 2005, through 2011.
Tell It, a half-sister to successful sire Pulpit, set the new high-price mark during Thursday’s third session of the Tell It, November breeding stock sale, selling to Blandford Bloodstock for $540,000.
Fasig Tipton has cataloged 242 horses for its Midlantic mixed sale, to be held on Monday, Dec. 3, in Timonium, Md.
Spring Party became the first horse to surpass the half-million dollar mark on Day 3 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, selling to Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings for $525,000.
After $4 million mares sparked its first two sessions, Keeneland’s November breeding stock auction in Lexington, Ky., returned to more workaday trade as domestic commercial breeders and weanling-to-yearling resellers filled the buyers’ list.
A pair of broodmares raised the bar for the day and quickly raised it again during Thursday’s third session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, selling for more than $300,000 each.
Barbara Hunter, whose horses raced throughout North America under her familiar red-and-black silks for more than 50 years, died Wednesday night at her Brownwood farm home just south of Lexington, Ky. She was 89.
The absence of race-day medication in 2-year-old Breeders' Cup races appeared to have little effect and, more important, may have actually demonstrated that far fewer horses “require” race-day medication than we presently see.
Juddmonte Farms’s Mizzen Mast had a breakout weekend, siring two Breeders’ Cup winners, the only stallion to achieve such a feat this year.
