Uncle Mo, last year’s 2-year-old champion, will stand stud at Ashford Stud, Coolmore’s North America farm in Versailles Ky., when his racing career is over, owner Mike Repole announced Thursday.
The Tattersalls October yearling auction opened its Book 1 portion Wednesday in Newmarket, England, with large across-the-board gains and high-priced purchases by longtime bidding rivals Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum and Coolmore boss John Magnier.
A $180,000 Harlan's Holiday half-brother to Double Down Vinman led selling Wednesday at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling sale in Timonium, Md. The auction ended with increases in average and median.
Frank Stronach's Adena Springs, which picked up 44 yearlings at Keeneland's recent September yearling auction, continued buying Wednesday at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling sale, which entered its final day off of large gains at its opening session.
Saratoga juvenile winner Giant Surprise, retired after his July 30 win with a non-displaced condylar fracture, will enter stud next year at Vinery in New York.
A $200,000 Hard Spun colt from Barbaro's family topped the opening session Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling sale in Timonium, Md. With a 17-percent smaller catalog, the session saw a dip in gross but put up increases in average and median prices.
Pensioned New York stallion D'Accord, sire of numerous graded winners and one of the last Secretariat sons, has died at age 32.
A $200,000 Hard Spun colt from Barbaro's family was the early leader at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's two-day Eastern fall yearling sale Tuesday in Timonium, Md.
Vinery, which has expanded its operation to several New York farms in recent months, will stand all of its New York stallions at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag in 2012.
Life At Ten, the two-time Grade 1 winner whose last-place finish in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic created one of the year’s biggest controversies, has been retired from racing.
