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.
The Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling sale kicked off Tuesday in Newmarket, England, with a classic bidding duel that resulted in John Ferguson's buying the session-topper for just more than $1.3 million.
A pair of weanlings from Munnings’s first crop were the early leaders Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga mixed and racing-age sale.
Coolmore Stud will add four stallions to its Irish roster for the 2013 breeding season: three-time international champion So You Think, Breeders’ Cup Mile possible Excelebration, current Kentucky first-crop sire Henrythenavigator, and recently retired Irish classic winner Power.
Two Keeneland Grade 1 winners last weekend - In Lingerie and Tapitsfly - are headed to the auction ring, at least for now, their owners say.
Eltish, the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up who stood this year at Mole’s Hill Farm in Millerton, N.Y., was euthanized last week due to neurological complications, the farm announced Friday.
The formation of the Golden State Series for 2- and 3-year-old California-breds should give a boost to the Barretts October yearling sale on Tuesday.
Wood Memorial winner Gemologist, who returned to WinStar Farm for evaluation about three weeks after a last-place finish in the Haskell Invitational, has been retired from racing, the farm announced late Thursday afternoon. WinStar will stand the 3-year-old colt, a son of their stallion Tiznow, in 2013.
