Speightstown, the 2004 sprint champion and now North America’s third-leading general sire, underwent colic surgery Saturday for a nephrosplenic entrapment, according to WinStar Farm.
Vinery will raise leading New York sire Posse’s stud fee from $10,000 to $12,500 next year, but it will trim fees for four of its other stallions, it announced on Friday when releasing fees for its Kentucky and New York stallions.
Ol’ Memorial Stable and C. E. Glasscock’s Grade 3 winner Soaring Empire, who last raced in February, will enter stud in 2013 at Vinery New York, the farm announced Friday.
Auction participants are using the word "stability" with a lot more confidence heading into the Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November mixed sales.
A rundown of the best hips at the Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November mixed sales, topped by reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and the mares who produced I'll Have Another and Bodemeister.
Grade 1-placed Maimonides will relocate to Vinery Kentucky for the 2013 breeding season, Vinery president Tom Ludt announced Wednesday.
Kentucky stallion and Grade 1 winner Latent Heat is relocating to Oklahoma, where he will stand in 2013 at River Oaks Farm in Sulphur, Okla.
Darley’s Lexington, Ky., division at Jonabell Farm will host an open house between Nov. 5-16 during the November sales at Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland.
Ben and Elaine Walden’s Pauls Mill announced Thursday that the central Kentucky farm has acquired a 50 percent interest in Mining My Own, dam of 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird and multiple Grade 1 winner Dullahan.
Grade 1 winner Pomeroy, whose graded winners include Pomeroys Pistol and Flashpoint, will move from Vinery Florida to Vinery New York for the 2013 breeding season.
