Multiple Grade 1 winner Contested became the first horse of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale to sell for seven figures, and she did so in dramatic fashion, going to the Yoshida family’s Shadai Farm in Japan for $2.3 million.
Grade 1 winner Eden's Moon was sold for$1,525,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale on Monday evening, being purchased by Mandore International Agency. The French-based agency of Nicolas de Watrigant continued a strong evening for foreign buyers at the sale, after Japanese interests purchased two seven-figure mares.
Stormy Atlantic, currently ranked 12th on the general sire list, will stand the 2013 breeding season for $30,000 stands and nurses, Hill 'n' Dale Farms announced on Monday.
Bella Dorato, dam of Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Trinniberg, was bought for $460,000 by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale in Lexington, Ky., on Monday evening.
Two days after Reneesgotzip finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, Lane’s End Farm announced that her sire, City Zip, will get a fee bump next year from $20,000 to $25,000.
The mixed sale season in Kentucky starts on Monday with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, a fast-paced, one-session auction that features some of the world's top breeding and racing prospects.
Ashford Stud announced on Monday that it has purchased 2011 champion 2-year-old male and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Hansen. The Tapit colt will enter stud at the Versailles, Ky., farm in 2013 at a fee to be announced.
The positioning of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky and Keeneland November mixed sales, just days after the Breeders' Cup, encourages buyers to strike while the iron is hot — and both auctions got plenty of major catalog updates as a result of the Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 2 and 3 at Santa Anita Park.
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.
