Jim Tafel, owner and breeder of 2007 Kentucky Derby winner and 2006 champion juvenile Street Sense and 1998 champion 3-year-old filly Banshee Breeze, will disperse his breeding stock at the Nov. 6-16 Keeneland November sale in Lexington.
A pair of $252,000 colts led selling Monday as the four-day Tattersalls October Book 2 yearling auction began in Newmarket, England, with declines across the board.
Grade 3 winner Algorithms, undefeated in his three starts, has been retired after “aggravating” a previous splint bone injury during training, his owner Starlight Racing announced Monday.
Creative Cause, a millionaire who won three stakes in California and was third in the Preakness Stakes in May, has been retired to stud at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.
The $23,026 average price at Tuesday’s Barretts October yearling sale in Pomona, Calif., was the highest for the annual sale since 2006.
Photographer Sarah K. Andrew and designer Gina Kessling of Hoofprints.com have collaborated for a second year to produce the “Horses and Hope: Faces of Rescue” calendar, sales of which will benefit the equine advocacy group One Horse At A Time.
Boosted by big bids for Galileo’s progeny, including a $4.2 million colt, the Tattersalls October Book 1 sale broke a European record for gross sales and ended Thursday with upswings in gross and average price.
Wednesday was a big day for Galileo fillies at the Tattersalls October sale’s Book 1 segment in Newmarket England. Galileo daughters took the second session’s four highest prices, led by a $2.5 million full sister to 2012 Epsom Oaks winner Was.
Closing Move, a 3-year-old Bernardini filly from Darley’s racing stable, brought $100,000 Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga mixed and racing-age sale, where she was the most expensive horse at a new auction many consignors welcomed, despite a 41 percent buyback rate.
Topped by a $150,000 Bertrando colt bought by Arnold Zetcher, the Barretts October yearling auction enjoyed large gains Tuesday night.
