Flying Zee dispersal led by $375,000 Lemon Drop Kid filly
With a $375,000 Lemon Drop Kid yearling filly leading the way, the first phase of Flying Zee Stable’s dispersal at Fasig-Tipton grossed more than $1.2 million.
DRF StaffOct 27, 2011
With a $375,000 Lemon Drop Kid yearling filly leading the way, the first phase of Flying Zee Stable’s dispersal at Fasig-Tipton grossed more than $1.2 million.
Fasig-Tipton’s robust Kentucky fall yearling sale ended Wednesday night with dramatic improvements over last year’s figures, fueling more hopes that the yearling market has turned a corner after steep declines since the 2008 global financial crisis.
English bloodstock agent Anthony Stroud picked up another high-priced horse Wednesday at the Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale in Newmarket, paying the session-topping price of 310,000 guineas for four-time group-placed Measuring Time.
Breeders’ Cup Mile contender and multiple Grade 1 winner Court Vision will retire after the Nov. 5 race and will enter stud at Michael Byrne’s Park Stud in Canada, as his owner, Spendthrift Farm ,looks to expand its brand northward.
Godolphin’s graded winner Regal Ransom has retired from racing and will enter stud next year at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Kentucky, Darley announced Wednesday.
Big prices just kept coming Wednesday as the strong Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling market rolled into its final session.
John Turner’s Moon Lake Farm in Elm Grove, La., will close its public operations, end its two-year partnership with Millennium Farms, and become a private farm, Turner announced Wednesday.
Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky fall yearling sale built on its massive opening-day gains Tuesday, posting more huge increases. Gross receipts improved 74 percent, the average price gained 68 percent, and median more than doubled for a second consecutive day.
Multiple graded winner Etched, a 6-year-old son of Forestry and Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Unbridled Elaine, will enter stud at Maryland's Bonita Farm in 2012. A Darley homebred, he won the Grade 3 Nashua in 2007, the Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup in 2009, and the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup in 2010 and retires with $587,586 in purses from 7 wins in 11 starts. He will stand for $3,500. . . . New York sire Maybry's Boy will return to Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y., in 2012 after two seasons at Empire Stud in Hudson, N.Y., now Vinery New York. His advertised fee remains $2,500.
The listed stakes winner Fallen Idol and a runner from Andrew Tinkler's racing stable led selling Tuesday at the Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale in Newmarket, England, which reversed the opening session's gain in median.