Australian buyer Paul Fudge made the early running Monday at Arqana’s Deauville August yearling sale in France, where he bought the session-topper at the opening session.
Three Chimneys Racing has privately purchased what it termed “a significant interest” in Anthony Ramsden’s San Clemente Handicap winner Up In Time, who was to start in Saturday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks. A British-bred Noverre filly, she is 8-1 on the track’s morning line.
Halo Dolly wasn't able to draw into the main body of the field for Saturday's Del Mar Oaks. As a consolation, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has Sunday’s $100,000 Solana Beach Handicap for statebred fillies and mares over a mile on turf. In that race, Halo Dolly will be favored, and seeking her fifth consecutive win.
The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club has named Three Chimneys stallion manager Sandy Hatfield its 2011 Kentucky Farm Manager of the Year.
Littleexpectations, sire of Grade 2 winner King of the Roxy and this year’s stakes-placed runner Expecting Cash, will relocate from Louisiana to Texas for the 2012 breeding season. Littleexpectations will stand for $1,500 next year, according to Asmussen Horse Center in Laredo, Tex., where he will stand.
WinStar Farm will hold an online contest in which fans can vote for their favorite among 32 foals sired by first-year sire Colonel John.
The Tattersalls sales company in Newmarket, England, has cataloged 508 yearlings to its upcoming October Book 1 yearling auction.
The influential British sire Green Desert, a Group 1-winning son of Danzig who sired a dozen Group 1 winners and several leading sires, has ended his stud career at Nunnery Stud in England.
Buoyed by optimism about Aqueduct’s new gaming machines and by a larger catalog, Fasig-Tipton’s New York-bred preferred auction ended Sunday night with large gains across the board.
The prospect of bigger, gaming-enriched funds in New York gave an expected boost to the New York-bred preferred yearling sale’s opening night, but market polarization worsened as buyers sifting through an expanded catalog concentrated on horses they perceived to have the highest quality. Saturday’s first of two sessions at Fasig-Tipton’s Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., saw average price rise 50 percent to $51,992 as median gained 22 percent to hit $33,000. Gross jumped by 61 percent when 59 horses sold for a combined $3,067,500, up from last year’s $1,908,000 total for 55. But the buyback rate also soared, going from 26 percent to 36 percent.
