At Keeneland, which hosts its one-session April juvenile auction on Monday, sale director Geoffrey Russell said he was encouraged by the performance of the season’s two most recent sales, the Barretts and Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s March auctions and hopes to continue that momemtum at Monday's salel.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Last year, an allowance race or optional claimer sufficed when owner-trainer Bill Spawr sought races for Amazombie, his California-bred sprinter. That’s no longer good enough.
Lane’s End Farm has pensioned its flagship stallion and 1992 Horse of the Year, A. P. Indy, due to infertility after the 22-year-old Seattle Slew horse failed to impregnate any of his 25 mares this year.
Two juveniles worked a quarter-mile in 20.8 seconds and four went an eighth in 9.8 seconds as the fastest horses breezing Thursday for Keeneland’s April 2-year-old sale.
The Inglis company’s Australian Easter yearling sale concluded its three-day Session I portion on Thursday with gains in average and median price
The owners of Florida Derby runner-up Shackleford could be Kentucky Derby-bound thanks to a mare they purchased together in 2006.
A half-brother to four-time Group 1 winner Black Caviar brought about $984,000 on Wednesday to top Day 2 of the Inglis Australian Easter yearling sale.
A Flashy Bull filly, who was the co-fastest worker during the under-tack show of the Fasig-Tipton Texas auction of 2-year-olds in training at Lone Star Park, topped the sale on Tuesday when she fetched $170,000 from the Martin Racing and Carl Moore Management. She also helped lift the sale's average price to a 24-percent increase over the corresponding auction in 2010.
The Inglis auction house’s Australian Easter yearling sale opened Tuesday with double-digit gains in the average and median prices.
Juveniles by Kafwain and first-crop sire Flashy Bull topped the eighth-mile work tab Sunday at Fasig-Tipton's Texas 2-year-old sale preview.
