Tattersalls sale shows strength
The Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket, England, ended Friday with gains across the board and a $294,000 top price for a 4-year-old winner by Cape Cross.
Glenye Cain OakfordJul 08, 2011
The Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket, England, ended Friday with gains across the board and a $294,000 top price for a 4-year-old winner by Cape Cross.
The late Edward P. Evans estate’s complete dispersal, which will take place at Keeneland during the September yearling and November breeding stock sales, will include 244 horses, according to the catalog Keeneland issued Friday.
Fasig-Tipton executives and consignors are looking for signs that 2011’s select yearling season will be better than 2010’s and that bloodstock prices will begin to show signs of recovery after several years of contraction.
With two stakes wins and a perfect record after three starts, City Route has become the star 2-year-old in Northern California this summer, a circuit she may be close to outgrowing.
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, which faced allegations of neglect earlier this year from its critics, says it is now up to date in its payment to satellite farms around the nation that care for retired Thoroughbreds under the foundation’s auspices.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Safety and Integrity Alliance launched a web page on Wednesday that contains listings of contacts for horsemen seeking to have retired horses placed with after-care organizations.
Canada’s champion 3-year-old filly of 2009, Milwaukee Appeal, has a new home in Kentucky.
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.