Goffs Orby yearling sale shows strong gains
The two-day Goffs Orby yearling sale ended Thursday in Ireland with large increases across the board as Galileo relations took center stage at the market’s top.
Glenye Cain OakfordOct 04, 2012
The two-day Goffs Orby yearling sale ended Thursday in Ireland with large increases across the board as Galileo relations took center stage at the market’s top.
Breeders and sellers in New York feel confident that big New York-bred awards will help draw bidders to the new Saratoga fall sale.
Adena Springs stallion Silent Name, who spent 2011 and 2012 at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in New York, will relocate to the Adena Springs Canadian division in Aurora, Ontario.
A $300,000 filly by Malibu Moon topped selling Monday afternoon at Fasig-Tipton’s Eastern fall yearling auction in Timonium, Md., where two horses brought more than last year’s $200,000 sale-topping price and figures increased across the board.
Stay Thirsty, who emerged from the shadow of his more celebrated stablemate Uncle Mo to become a Grade 1 winner, will rejoin Uncle Mo in his next career as a stallion at Ashford Stud in Kentucky, owner Mike Repole said Monday.
A $300,000 filly by Malibu Moon topped selling Monday afternoon at Fasig-Tipton’s Eastern fall yearling auction in Timonium, Md., where two horses brought more than last year’s $200,000 sale-topping price and figures increased across the board.
Fasig-Tipton’s select November mixed sale will feature 180 horses in its catalog, the Kentucky auction house announced Monday. The Nov. 5 auction will offer 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and reigning champion sprint female Musical Romance as well as the dams of the one-two finishers in the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, I’ll Have Another and Bodemeister.
Sarava, the 2002 Belmont Stakes winner, has been retired from stud to the Old Friends equine retirement haven in Georgetown, Ky., Old Friends announced Saturday. He is the first classic winner to reside at the farm.
The recent death of Cindago has left Legacy Ranch in Clements Calif., with just one Thoroughbred stallion and preliminary plans to add to that roster for the 2013 breeding season.
Giacomo, the 2005 Kentucky Derby winner, and his Grade 1-winning half-brother Tiago will return to Adena Springs Kentucky for the 2013 breeding season.