Street Life retired after being injured in Travers
Dual stakes winner Street Life, vanned off the track after the Aug. 28 Travers with a soft-tissue injury, has retired.
Glenye Cain OakfordAug 30, 2012
Dual stakes winner Street Life, vanned off the track after the Aug. 28 Travers with a soft-tissue injury, has retired.
Leading Northwest stallions Matty G and Harbor the Gold will be heavily represented Tuesday at the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association’s annual summer sale.
Debussy, the 2010 Arlington Million winner, has retired to stud in Wales, Racing Post reported Tuesday. A 6-year-old Darley homebred, Debussy is by Diesis out of the group-placed Singspiel mare Opera Comique and will stand at Llety Stud in Carmarthenshire for 3,500 pounds, or about $5,530.
A colt by Successful Appeal brought a bid of $57,000 from Brad Grady to top the Fasig-Tipton Texas yearling sale at Lone Star Park near Dallas on Monday night.
Vinery owner Tom Simon has put the operation’s four United States properties on the market. Vinery’s U.S. properties include farms in Kentucky, Florida, and New York.
WinStar Farm has hired two new employees, the Versailles, Ky., Kentucky farm announced Monday. The farm has hired Chance Timm to manage its stallion nomination sales and Leanna Packard as a bloodstock assistant and coordinator of the WinStar Stablemates membership program.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale’s two open sessions in Ocala, Fla., ended Thursday with strong gains across the board.
Led by a $110,000 Kitten’s Joy colt, the first open session at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling auction ended Wednesday evening with across-the-board gains.
The dams of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another and the races’ runner-up, Bodemeister, will go to auction at Fasig-Tipton’s November sale this year.
Monarchos, the 2001 Kentucky Derby winner, is recovering well from his second colic surgery in 16 months.