Ocala Breeders’ Sales names new director
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company in Florida on Friday named Tod Wojciechowski as its director of sales, effective early next year.
Glenye Cain OakfordDec 02, 2011
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company in Florida on Friday named Tod Wojciechowski as its director of sales, effective early next year.
McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds will add two stallions to their stallion roster in 2012: Grade 1 winner Here Comes Ben and former Vinery New York resident Justenuffhumor.
Illlinois stallion Fort Prado will relocate from Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Barrington, Ill., to Doug Arnold’s Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, Ky., for the upcoming breeding season. A 10-year-old El Prado-Fort Pond horse, he will stand for $5,000 live foal, up from his 2011 fee of $3,000.
England’s Tattersalls December sale series ended Thursday with robust gains in all financial categories. The December sale included yearling, weanling, and breeding stock sessions. All told, these grossed about $117,523,060 for 1,444 horses, resulting in an $81,387 average price and a $34,398 median. Compared year-to-year in the auction’s guineas currency, gross receipts rose 29 percent from last year’s total for 1,398 horses, while the average and median prices were up by 25 percent and 24 percent, respectively.
Arnold Kirkpatrick, a Lexington realtor and former Thoroughbred Record editor died Tuesday night at Bourbon Community Hospital in Paris, Ky. He was 70.
England’s Tattersalls December breeding stock sale, which sold four horses for more than 1 million guineas at its second session Tuesday, came down to earth Wednesday for its next-to-last session. But figures continued to run ahead of last year’s returns.
Sarah and Ken Ramsey, whose homebred Stephanie’s Kitten won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf this year, have won the inaugural John Deere Award as the leading breeders in the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series.
Keeneland has cataloged 1,594 horses to its upcoming January all-ages sale, which will take place here January 9-12. The number is down almost 13 percent from last year’s 1,827-horse catalog.
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.