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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It was a poignant moment for Bill Casner. On Monday night, he stood just outside the bright lights that glistened off a bay colt named Superfection. Casner remembered the colt as a foal, indeed as a mating plan, and Superfection’s pedigree inspired fond Kentucky Derby memories.
Glenye Cain Oakford reports on the first session of Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga yearling auction.
Sheikh Mohammed bought six horses for more than $4 million - including a $1.2 million session-topping Medaglia d'Oro colt - to help boost Monday's first session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale.
Retired Claiborne Farm manager John Sosby, who was employed by the nursery for more than 50 years, died Aug. 6 at age 73, the Lexington Herald-Leader has reported.
Saturday’s Whitney result was hardly official before Spendthrift Farm in Lexington announced it has acquired a breeding interest in the winner, Tizway, who will retire to stud at the end of the season.
Dublin, recently retired winner of the 2009 Hopeful Stakes, will enter stud next year in New York.
A smaller catalog and optimism over Aqueduct’s long-awaited gaming machines could help Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale edge upward this year. But the Aug. 8-9 auction probably will continue two familiar trends: highly selective buyers and conservative spending at the top of the market.
A $25,000 private purchase, Ruler of Dubai rewarded trainer George Papaprodromou with his first stakes win in the Graduation at Del Mar.
Prized, winner of the 1989 Breeders’ Cup Turf and sire of record-setting Grade 1 winner Brass Hat, has been pensioned to the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.
