Canadian champion Rainbows for Life dead at age 24
Three-time Canadian champion Rainbows For Life has died in the Czech Republic at age 24, the Racing Post reported.
Three-time Canadian champion Rainbows For Life has died in the Czech Republic at age 24, the Racing Post reported.
A $275,000 colt by English Channel topped the selected sessions of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale at the Woodbine sales pavilion Monday and Tuesday.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 254 horses for its inaugural Saratoga fall mixed sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The auction will take place in the Humphrey S. Finney pavilion on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 11 a.m.
Theatrical, the 1987 champion turf male and winner of that year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, has died at age 30.

Dancing in Silks, winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita, has been retired – again.
A total of 387 Canadian-bred yearlings are cataloged for this week’s Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion.

Peter Willmott, chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, discusses the TOBA's role in attempting to phase out race-day use of Lasix.
With the Keeneland September Sale around the corner, pedigree consultant Anne Peters gives her selections of the 50 most exciting yearling pedigrees in the first two books.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Eastern fall yearling sale will go from two days to one this year as the number of yearlings cataloged drops 30 percent.

Veterans of Thoroughbred auctions share the best advice they ever received about working the yearling sales, whether they’re buying, selling, holding a gavel, or peering at images from an endoscope.