Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 155 horses for its Nov. 6 November select sale in Lexington, Ky. The mixed auction, which will start at 4 p.m. that Sunday, includes 60 graded winners or stakes-producing mares, 28 of whom are Grade 1 winners or Grade 1 producers.
The late Carl Lizza’s estate will begin dispersing most of Lizza’s Flying Zee Stable bloodstock at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky fall yearling sale on Oct. 26.
Galileo fillies continued to be all the rage Friday at the Tattersalls October yearling auction’s Book 1 auction, where a three-quarter-sister to Henrythenavigator’s dam topped the sale at 1.7 million guineas, about $2,784,600.
A massive boost to stakes purses for California-breds in 2012 is likely to contribute to higher interest in statebred yearlings at this week’s Barretts October yearling sale at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. The two-day sale begins on Tuesday with an evening session at 7 p.m., and continues Wednesday morning at 11 a.m.
The general manager of WinStar Farm, Tony Cissell, who succeeded Gary Bush as WinStar’s GM in 2005, is leaving.
Darley will shuttle the leading Australian sire, Lonhro, to the United States for the 2012 Northern Hemisphere season. An 11-time Group 1 winner, he will stand at Darley's Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., but Darley has yet to set his American fee. His most recent Australian stud fee was $88,000 Australian, about $85,000 in U.S. funds.
The Tattersalls October yearling sale continued to show increases in average and median prices Thursday as its Book 1 portion ended its second of three sessions.
Old Friends, the equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., will host a “Hall of Fame Day at Old Friends” on Oct. 17, starting with a 3 p.m. memorial observance for Hall of Famers Skip Away, Noor, and Precisionist, who are buried in the Old Friends Hall of Fame cemetery.
Breeders’ Cup Sprint hopeful Smiling Tiger will head to auction after that race, selling agent Archie St. George announced Thursday.
Benny the Bull, 2008’s champion sprinter, will move from Vinery’s Florida farm to its Lexington, Ky., headquarters, his owner, Greg James, has announced.
