Barretts: Sky Mesa filly quickest at preview
A Sky Mesa filly proved fastest in the Barretts May sale’s under-tack preview Friday.
Glenye Cain OakfordMay 12, 2012
A Sky Mesa filly proved fastest in the Barretts May sale’s under-tack preview Friday.
Pluck, the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner by More Than Ready, has retired from racing and will enter stud at Vinery Australia, which also stands his sire during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
If he had it to do again, Harvey Clarke probably still would have sold I’ll Have Another. Clarke sells many of the foals his 10-mare band produces, and, back in 2010, there was nothing about the Flower Alley colt that suggested he would go from $11,000 auction yearling to 2012 Kentucky Derby winner.
Prices for race-ready juveniles are expected to rise at Monday’s Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in-training in Pomona, Calif.
Ten years before I'll Have Another won the Kentucky Derby, his sire, Flower Alley, almost didn't make it after a difficult birth.
Zenyatta is in foal for the second time, this time on a cover to Tapit, her owners Ann and Jerry Moss announced Tuesday via Twitter and Facebook.
Grade 1 winner and 2000 Kentucky Derby and Belmont runner-up Aptitude has died in Argentina of a ruptured stomach.
Lexington's historic Calumet Farm has a new operator: Thoroughbred owner and breeder Brad Kelley. The De Kwiatkowski Trust, which operates Calumet's owner, Kennelot Stables, announced late Thursday that it had entered a private purchase agreement with a new group, the Calumet Investment Group, to buy the famed farm. That group will lease the 798-acre farm to Kelley, who owns and bred Kentucky Derby contender Optimizer.
The Barretts May 2-year-old sale catalog, featuring 116 horses, is out now in print and online at www.barretts.com.
Florida stallion Skip Trial, sire of Hall of Famer and 1998 Horse of the Year Skip Away, died Tuesday at Bridlewood Farm, the Ocala, Fla., nursery announced Wednesday. He was 30.