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.
The yearlings bred by David and Marion Christensen are well traveled by the time they reach Barretts sales in Pomona, Calif., to be sold as yearlings.
The under-tack show for the annual Fasig-Tipton Texas 2-year-olds in training sale is set for Sunday morning at Lone Star Park, with the auction to be there on Tuesday. Both the workouts and the auction are to begin at 10 a.m. Central.
Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year, is no longer in foal and will be bred to Benardini again next week, according to Mike Cline, the manager of Lane’s End Farm, where the 7-year-old mare in boarded.
