Barretts sale reached via Oregon trail
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.
Steve AndersenApr 01, 2011
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.
France's Arqana auction house in Deauville will host a new yearling sale in November to replace their former December yearling auction. The new yearling sale will take place Nov. 15 in Deauville and will be combined with the former autumn sale to create a new fall mixed auction.
Mineshaft, 2003’s Horse of the Year and champion older horse, underwent colic surgery Thursday night, according to the farm that stands him, and is expected to make a full recovery.
The Rock Hard Ten colt who led the California-bred portion of Monday’s Barretts March Sale of 2-year-olds in-training in Pomona, Calif., is already at trainer John Sadler’s barn on the Santa Anita backstretch.
The Wicked North, 1994's champion older horse, was euthanized Thursday at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute due to complications from an intestinal lipoma strangulation, a condition in which an internal growth wraps around a horse's intestine.
An ultrasound examination taken Wednesday shows Zenyatta appears to be holding her first pregnancy, owner Jerry Moss said.
Clear Creek Stud in Louisiana has pensioned Grade 1-winning sire Afternoon Deelites to the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.
Average sales price showed a slight increase over last year at the John Franks Memorial 2-year-olds in training sale held last Sunday at Evangeline Downs. A total of 134 horses were catalogued and 113 sold for a collective $901,500 and an average of $7,978, a 2.2 percent increase from 2010. Gross receipts declined 14 percent from the 2010 mark of $1,045,700.