Hard Spun’s 3-year-old daughter Lady Clara, third in the Jan. 7 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct, brought $240,000 from Hard Acre Farm as the session topper Tuesday at the OBS January mixed sale.
Richland Hills Farm stallion Purim, a Grade 1 winner by Dynaformer, was euthanized Saturday after undergoing colic surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, farm president Nathan Fox confirmed Monday.
Thirtyfirststreet spent almost as much time on the road in 2011 as he did racing in his home state of California. Of his nine races, four were outside the state, including a win in the Lone Star Derby in Texas last May.
Keeneland’s January horses of all ages sale started and ended with a bang as all four sessions rang up hefty gains, buybacks fell, and the number of horses selling for $200,000 or more more than doubled, from 16 last year to 37 in 2012.
Teruya Yoshida, the Shadai Farm owner whose brother recently bought $1.4 million Keeneland January sale-topper Topliner, has privately purchased two outstanding turf mares: Stacelita and Sarafina.
The four-day Keeneland January all-age auction closed with 1,003 horses bringing $37,991,900, a 50-percent increase over the 2011 sale's gross for 1,021 horses sold over five days. The 2012 cumulative average price billowed up by 53 percent, from $24,731 last year to $37,878, and the median performed even better, doubling its $7,500 figure in 2011 to $15,000 this season.
A day after short yearlings – weanlings that became yearlings on Jan. 1 – dominated the price board, the broodmares La Defense and Rendezvous Point were co-session leaders at 3:45 p.m. Eastern during Thursday's final session of the Keeneland January all-ages sale.
Oratory, winner of the Grade 2 Peter Pan in 2005, has relocated from Maryland to stand at Eureka Thoroughbred Farm in Fredericksburg, Tex., in 2012.
A colt by two-time Australian champion Fastnet Rock added momentum Thursday to Australia’s Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling sale, bringing the day’s highest price of about $988,800.
