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.
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 an auction whose debut was marred by a 41 percent buy-back rate.
Claiborne Farm’s young stallion War Front, whose 2012 stakes-winners include Grade 1 winner Data Link, will get a stud fee hike in 2013 to $80,000. War Front is the historic Paris, Ky., farm’s most expensive sire and stood for an advertised fee of $60,000 this year.
