I’ll Have Another is bound for stud duty in Japan next year, and it is possible that some foals from his first crop in 2014 will be California-breds.
Owner Kip Colvin announced Thursday that his world record-breaking gelding Mandurah has retired after injuring a tendon.
Don McNeill and Cheyenne Stables have retired their 2011 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Caleb’s Posse, who will enter stud in 2013 at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky.
New Vocations is best known for retraining ex-racehorses and putting them up for adoption in new careers, but the group also is offering valuable training for people, thanks to a paid internship program that puts students in touch with Thoroughbreds.
England’s Tattersalls July sale, featuring horses and fillies in training as well as broodmares, ended its first of three sessions Wednesday with declines in gross, average, and median, though buybacks also dropped.
The Fasig-Tipton July select yearling sale in Kentucky has raised confidence in the coming select yearling auction season, even as buyers’ selectivity has created a hot-or-cold market.
Fasig-Tipton’s bellwether July select yearling sale began Tuesday with the early session leader $375,000 that rrainer Ken McPeek paid for a Malibu Moon colt consigned by CandyLand Farm.
Japan’s Big Red Farm paid $10 million for the breeding rights to Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another, the colt’s owner Paul Reddam has confirmed.
The late Carl Lizza’s Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y., closed this week, but its longtime managers have relocated the horses and will continue operating a Thoroughbred breeding business as Highcliff at Mill Creek Farm.
