Old Friends, the Kentucky equine retirement facility specializing in the care of retired stallions, is making an immediate appeal for $300,000 this month after an alleged bank error has left the charity more than $200,000 behind on its mortgage payments.
Less than a week after one of his sons topped the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale in Lexington, Ky., Indian Charlie grabbed the headline at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's juvenile under-tack show on Wednesday.
Pensioned Texas-based stallion Manzotti has died at his farm, according to Barbara Kvalsvig, who helped oversee the horse’s care during his retirement at Brookshire Farm in Brookshire, Texas. A Nijinksy II horse, Manzotti was 28 and died on April 12.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s first under-tack session for the April juvenile sale saw a Hook and Ladder filly cruise a quarter-mile in 20.6 seconds on Tuesday.
The Keeneland Association will raise its commission on horse sales from 4.5 percent to 5 percent, restoring it to its level back in 2000.
Keeneland’s April 2-year-old sale Monday evening closed out the boutique juvenile auction season with losses that did little to dent auction executives’ conviction that the market is stabilizing.
Bloodstock agent John Moynihan, representing Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables, paid $625,000 Monday evening to buy the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale’s highest-priced horse, an Indian Charlie colt, at an auction that saw relatively shallow declines across the board.
Two Grammy Award-winning bands, Bruno Mars and Train, will perform sets in the infield of Pimlico Race Course during the Preakness Stakes card on May 21 this year, the track announced Monday. The performances will be part of a series of events held in the infield that will also include a women’s volleyball tournament, bikini contest, cornhole tournament, carnival games, and beginning handicapping seminars. . . .Former WinStar Farm chief executive Doug Cauthen has joined the board of True Nicks, a pedigree and matings analysis service developed by The Blood-Horse and Pedigree Consultants. Cauthen, an independent bloodstock adviser, was chief executive of WinStar from soon after its founding in 2000 until last November.
Fasig-Tipton will expand its Midlantic 2-year-old sale at Timonium in Maryland from one to two days this year, and the auction will catalog about 600 entries.
