Death at Calumet ruled a suicide
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.
Glenye Cain OakfordJul 01, 2011
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.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June sale closed out the juvenile auction season Wednesday with results the auction house’s general manager says indicate stability in the 2-year-old market.
A pair of $300,000 colts topped the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s reformatted June 2-year-olds and horses of racing age sale, which ended Wednesday evening with a gain in gross but losses in average and median.
A colt by ill-fated first-crop sire Stormello led selling Wednesday afternoon on day two of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.