A Stravinsky-Jesmond’s Gift filly brought about $606,800 Monday to top the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s national yearling sale series in Karaka, which saw across-the-board declines.
Catalogs are available online now for the Barretts March selected 2-year-old sale, set for March 5 at Fairplex Park in Pomona, Calif.
James Edwards, a two-time New York breeder of the year who owned Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y., and the Stallion Park in Millbrook, N.Y., has died at age 94.
Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year who produced her first foal on Jan. 22, was taken with her Curlin colt to the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital here "as a precautionary measure after her delivery for pain management related to the birth," according to a statement from Stonestreet Farms.
Ron Stolich made the 80-mile drive from Rancho Mirage, Calif., to Pomona last Monday with a singular purpose. The mare Sci Fi Kin was available at the Barretts January mixed sale, and she was the one Stolich wanted for his Kentucky broodmare band.
Old Forester, with North American progeny earnings of $3,106,650, has been granted a $50,000 award as Ontario’s top sire of 2011.
Stakes-placed Sawtooth Mountain has retired from racing and will enter stud at Wayne George’s Circle G Farms in Atoka, Okla.
Grade 1 winner E Z’s Gentleman will enter stud this year at Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind.
Thoroughbred owner and breeder Paul Saylor has agreed to match any financial gift to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, up to $50,000 in total, as part of a fundraising challenge to benefit the charity for retired racehorses.
Sci Fi Kin, the dam of Grade 2 winner Pretty Unusual and carrying a full sibling to that runner, brought $60,000 Monday at the Barretts January mixed sale, the highest price on a day that saw gains in average and median.
