Darley doubling Bernardini's fee to $150K
Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Darley Stud announced Thursday that it will double Bernardini’s stud fee, from $75,000 to $150,000, for the 2012 breeding season.
Glenye Cain OakfordNov 10, 2011
Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Darley Stud announced Thursday that it will double Bernardini’s stud fee, from $75,000 to $150,000, for the 2012 breeding season.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Dec. 5 winter mixed sale, which features Phase II of the Flying Zee Stables dispersal, has a 395-horse catalog.
The late Ned Evans’s Spring Hill horses continued to exert their influence on Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale at Thursday’s fourth session, but it was another dispersal that produced the session-topper.
Mike O’Farrell’s Ocala Stud Farm on Ocala, Fla., has raised High Cotton’s fee from $2,500 to $5,000 on the strength of his first crop’s performance this year at the races.
Being able to sell a Breeders’ Cup winner at auction just days after the race almost always boosts a price, sale executives say, but today’s Thoroughbred buyers consider much more than a race result when they splash out that kind of money.
Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., will raise the fees of two stallions, Stormy Atlantic and Indygo Shiner, for 2012, but also is trimming fees for three of its stallions, including champion Midnight Lute.
Bidding throughout the brunt of the nine-hour session Wednesday at the Keeneland November sale was workmanlike but brisk until the last hour, when Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm went to $1.85 million to buy Quiet Now, a 6-year-old half-sister of Horse of the Year Saint Liam, and Coolmore shelled out $700,000 for a 9-month-old Tapit filly who is a half-sister to a filly Coolmore raced.
Buyer information, auction prices and more from day two of Keeneland's Fall 2011 sale.
Buyer information, auction prices and more from day one of Keeneland's Fall 2011 sale.
Millionaire Courageous Cat has retired from racing and will stand for a $10,000 during his initial year at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, the Versailles, Ky., farm announced Wednesday.