Bank Heist, a Maria's Mon half-brother to 2007 sprint champion Midnight Lute and multiple-graded-placed Captain Cherokee, has retired from the track and will enter stud at Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown, N.Y.
Part of Richard Simon’s former Sez Who Thoroughbreds property in Ocala, Fla., has been sold to an Ocala realtor.
Ruby Be Mine, a 9-year-old stakes-producing mare by Rubiano, brought a bid of $35,000 to top the Fasig-Tipton Texas mixed sale Monday at Lone Star Park near Dallas. The average price at the one-day auction featuring breeding stock was $4,553, up 12 percent from the corresponding sale in 2010.
Last year’s Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, Haynesfield, will start his stud career at Elizabeth and Brereton Jones’s Airdrie Stud in 2012 for a $10,000 fee.
Rousing Sermon will make his graded stakes debut in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity over 1 1/16 miles at Hollywood Park next Saturday under circumstances that could make him dangerous.
WinStar Farm will auction some of its racing memorabilia on eBay this month to benefit the New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program.
Taking inspiration from Spendthrift Farm, Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., will adopt the Share the Upside breeder incentive for breeders sending mares to their new stallion, American Lion.
Confidence in the Thoroughbred business overcame doubts about the global economy at the Tattersalls breeding stock sale , where strong gains added evidence that the Thoroughbred market is turning a corner after three difficult − for some, disastrous − years.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders have elected six members to fill two-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2012. They are Jerry Bilinski of Waldorf Farm and Equine Medical Center in North Chatham; Chester Broman of Chestertown Farm near Chestertown; Michael Lischin of Dutchess Views Farm in Pine Plains; Joanne Nielsen of Sunnyfield Farm in Bedford; Suzie O'Cain of Highcliff Farm in Delanson; and Barry Ostrager of Questroyal Stud in Claverack.
Phase II of the late Carl Lizza’s Flying Zee Stable dispersal pumped up sales figures Monday at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s December mixed sale, leading to gains across the board.
