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.
WinStar Farm has worked out a new plan for Drosselmeyer, the 2010 Belmont Stakes winner and 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, who will now stand at WinStar near Versailles, Ky., rather than at Keane Farm in New York as originally planned.
Unusual Heat, California’s leading sire by progeny earnings since 2008, will stand for $20,000 at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., to a book of approximately 60 mares in 2012, a stud fee unchanged from 2011.
