Denali Stud in Kentucky has formed what Denali owner Craig Bandoroff called “a strategic alliance” with Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm in New York, the two nurseries announced Wednesday.
Chief Seattle, who led Indiana’s sire rankings in 2010, died in October at age 14. A Seattle Slew horse, Chief Seattle stood at Lake Shore Farm in Scottsburg, Ind., where staff found him dead in his paddock on Oct. 28, according to farm manager Gale Bess.
Sumora, the dam of Group 1-winning juvenile Maybe, led a parade of high-priced fillies and mares Tuesday as the Tattersalls December breeding stock sale entered its second session in England.
Last year’s Canadian champion turf mare, Miss Keller, is retired after selling Monday in England at the Tattersalls December breeding stock sale’s first mare session. The four-day auction in Newmarket, England, kicked off with strong gains across the board.
Robert Louis Green, the former manager of Elmendorf Farm and Greentree Stud in Kentucky, died on Nov. 20 in Mt. Sterling, Ky. He was 86.
A $32,000 weanling colt by Canadian champion 2-year-old Leonnatus Anteas headed the 2011 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s winter mixed sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.
The multiple stakes winner Trappe Shot has been retired from racing and will stand stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., it was announced Friday.
Chad Schumer’s Schumer Bloodstock has bought three stallions and one stallion prospect for export to a variety of stud farms in Saudi Arabia.
The stallion deal that sent Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Drosselmeyer to WinStar Farm last week also resulted in a quick return for investors who bought most of the colt’s breeding rights 12 days before the Classic. Drosselmeyer’s victory meant that Lexington bloodstock adviser Tom Clark and New York breeder John Hicks turned a big profit in about two weeks.
Old Friends, the equine retirement facility based in Georgetown, Ky., has received a $50,000 grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
