Quality Road honored as Virginia's best
Quality Road led honorees as the Virginia Thoroughbred Association named its statebred champions on July 30.
Glenye Cain OakfordAug 03, 2011
Quality Road led honorees as the Virginia Thoroughbred Association named its statebred champions on July 30.
Team Valor International, the public syndicate that campaigns 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, has hired Bradley Weisbord as its chief operating officer.
Oklahoma businessman Everett Dobson has invested as a minority partner in Robert and Blythe Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm stallion business.
WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., has acquired interests in the four stallions standing at Pauls Mill farm and will relocate them to WinStar’s property for the 2012 breeding season, the farms announced on Friday.
Amazombie needs a win in Sunday’s $250,000 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar to remain in the argument for the 2011 California-bred Horse of the Year title.
When Genting New York started construction on its Resorts World New York casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, the sound of hammers was music to the ears of Saratoga-area Thoroughbred breeders.
Fasig-Tipton’s July select yearling sale on Tuesday offered reassurance that the select yearling market is stabilizing, but it also hinted that the upper market will continue to be thin and highly selective.
The select yearling auction season opened Tuesday with Fasig-Tipton’s July sale in Lexington, where the sale-topper was a $310,000 Harlan’s Holiday colt bought by the late Jess Jackson’s widow, Barbara Banke, and George Bolton.
Updates from the Fasig-Tipton auction of select yearlings in Lexington, Ky.
A day after snapping up a sale-record yearling filly, Global Equine Management’s Nobutaka Tada returned to the Japan Racing Horse Association’s select sale Tuesday to pick up the foal session’s top-priced horse.