Benburb, Canada's 1992 Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old, died Wednesday at Hagyard Equine Medical Center here. A 23-year-old Dr. Carter gelding, Benburb was euthanized because of complications from melanoma, the Old Friends equine retirement facility announced.
Lit de Justice, the 1996 champion sprinter and retired stallion, died last month in California, where he was pensioned in February due to infertility.
Keeneland has cataloged 3,604 yearlings to its upcoming September yearling sale, which will take place Sept. 10-21 this year. The catalog numbers are down 17 percent versus last year, when 4,319 yearlings were in the Lexington auction’s catalog.
England’s Tattersalls auction house has tweaked the 2012 schedule for its major yearling auction, the October sale, and will start the sale one day earlier than originally planned.
Millennium Wind, a 14-year-old stallion in Arizona who had won the 2001 Blue Grass Stakes, was euthanized Saturday due to complications of endotoxemia after suffering a hernia, according to the farm where he stood.
The rapid ascension of Lakerville through allowance-class company has Madeline Auerbach and trainer Barry Abrams aiming high this fall.
Dolphus Morrisson, the 86-year-old breeder of Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, plans to disperse his Thoroughbred holdings during the Keeneland November breeding stock sale this year.
Heidi Carpenter doesn't have the resources to aid 100 or 50 or even five horses in trouble. But she decided to try to help one: a 9-year-old bottom-level claimer named Oil Money's Dream.
Retirement organizations are cited as evidence that racing does indeed have a heart, but the lack of a nationwide network of facilities remains one of the industry's fundamental woes.
Michael Blowen's idea to open a retirement farm for pensioned stallions and make the ex-racehorses a tourist attraction has been a big success.
