Fasig-Tipton boosts Saratoga yearling catalog
Fasig-Tipton has reversed the trend toward smaller yearling sale catalogs by plumping up its New York-bred preferred auction with almost 23 percent more horses this year.
Glenye Cain OakfordJul 06, 2011
Fasig-Tipton has reversed the trend toward smaller yearling sale catalogs by plumping up its New York-bred preferred auction with almost 23 percent more horses this year.
WinStar Farm has sold what it called “a significant interest” in 2010 Santa Anita Derby winner Sidney’s Candy to Argentine-based Rubio B Stable, and the colt will shuttle to Argentina in 2012.
Lane’s End and Dixiana Farms have bought a majority interest in Carter Handicap winner Morning Line from Thoroughbred Legends Racing Stable. A 4-year-old Tiznow colt, Morning Line will stand at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., upon his retirement.
Linda Witman, whose body was found Wednesday morning by landscaping workers at Calumet Farm here, committed suicide, the Fayette County coroner’s office reported Friday afternoon.
Returning from a layoff and stuck in a losing streak, Dancing in Silks has a lot to prove when he returns in Sunday's $77,000 Robert Kerlan Memorial Handicap on turf at Hollywood Park.
Dwindling Thoroughbred crop sizes are bad news for racetracks combatting small fields, but they’ll probably be a plus for the 2011 yearling market.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 160 yearlings to its 2011 Saratoga select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in August.
Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners executive director Dick Hancock will retire early from that position, though he will stay on to aid in the transition to a new executive director, according to FTBOA president Fred Brei.
Two Punch, sire of champion Smoke Glacken and the elder statesman of Maryland’s Northview Stallion Station, was euthanized at the farm on Saturday at 28 due to the infirmities of old age.
There will never be an extensive schedule of races for the California-bred Lucky Primo, who won the second stakes of his career in Thursday’s $71,800 Golden State Cup Stakes at Hollywood Park.