The Barretts March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training on Monday showed growth in key categories when compared to the 2011 sale. An Empire Maker filly that sold for $435,000 topped the sale, the first major select juvenile auction of the season.
Catalogs are out for the April 18-19 Tattersalls Craven breeze-up sale in Newmarket, England, and the sale will feature 183 juveniles.
A pair of colts by Songandaprayer and Macho Uno breezed in under 10 seconds Friday at the Barretts March select 2-year-old sale’s under-tack show in California.
The Barretts March select 2-year-old auction kicks off the select juvenile auction season Monday with a larger catalog that bucks a recent trend of declining numbers and is studded with some Grade 1-related horses.
Lady Railrider, a five-time stakes winner who earned $603,041, has been retired and will be bred to Lucky Pulpit.
Sand Cove, a winner of nine stakes and more than $1 million and Canada’s champion older horse in 2010, died at the Rood & Riddle veterinary clinic in Kentucky on Feb. 13 following a month-long battle with laminitis.
Of the 21 California-breds in Monday’s catalog, 13 went through the ring at the Barretts October Yearling sale last fall and are being pinhooked to Monday's Barretts March sale of 2-year-olds in-training.
JoAnn and Alex Lieblong’s Telling, winner of the Sword Dancer Invitational in 2009 and 2010, will enter stud this year at Stonewall Farm Ocala, the Florida farm confirmed Friday.
Statistics for the leading sires and fastest New York-bred horses of 2011.
Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky is the latest out-of-state farm that is considering expanding into New York now that Aqueduct’s casino has ramped up horses’ and breeders’ earning power.
