OBS Tuesday session topped by $300K Bernstein colt
A $300,000 Bernstein colt was the highest-priced horse sold Tuesday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s reformatted June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.
Glenye Cain OakfordJun 21, 2011
A $300,000 Bernstein colt was the highest-priced horse sold Tuesday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s reformatted June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.
Five juveniles brought six figures Tuesday in the early hours of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.
A Proud Accolade filly cracked the 10-second barrier Sunday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old auction’s under-tack show, becoming the preview’s fastest worker over a furlong. The bay daughter of Lake Victoria covered an eighth-mile in 9.8 seconds, the fastest time at that distance during the two-day under-tack preview. Agent Lynne Boutte consigns the filly, cataloged as Hip No. 317.
Three juveniles clocked eighth-mile works in 10 seconds Saturday, topping the work tab for that distance at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s first under-tack show for its upcoming June 2-year-old sale.
Audrey and Richard Haisfield’s largest single creditor has asked a Florida bankruptcy court to put the Stonewall Farm founders into involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to more than $7 million in alleged unpaid debts.
At 74, California breeder Bud Johnston may be on the verge of a longtime goal, winning the Hollywood Gold Cup. On July 9, the Gold Cup will be run for the 72nd time at Hollywood Park, and Johnston may have a candidate in Acclamation, the multiple stakes-winning California-bred.
Liberation Farm and Brandywine Farm, the breeders of Belmont Stake winner Ruler On Ice, are close neighbors when it comes to the philosophy of breeding and raising Thoroughbred athletes.
Raymond LeCesse, a Rochester, N.Y., horse owner whose homebred Fio Rito upset the 1981 Whitney Stakes, died June 5 at age 88.
Sarum Farm owner Roger Bronzine, who bred more than 40 stakes-winners alone or in partnership, died June 6 of an unspecified illness. He was 68.
Four-time stakes-winning sprinter Meese Rocks, owned by New York’s Terranova Racing Stable, has died at age 6.