Three Chimneys stallion manager honored
The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club has named Three Chimneys stallion manager Sandy Hatfield its 2011 Kentucky Farm Manager of the Year.
Glenye Cain OakfordAug 18, 2011
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.
The Jockey Club is projecting a 2012 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 24,700, the smallest since 1971 and a decline of 8.5 percent from the estimate of 27,000 registered foals for 2011.
Hopes for New York-bred sales yearlings are high this year, now Aqueduct’s gaming machines are due to push $40 million into New York’s purses and another $6 million into its statebred fund.
Tom VanMeter, Olin Gentry, and Thomas Gaines have formed a new sales agency after selling their interests in Eaton Sales to that agency’s majority partner, Reiley McDonald.