The late Edward P. Evans’s bloodstock, numbering about 250 horses, will be dispersed this year at Keeneland’s September yearling and November breeding stock sales, Keeneland announced late Friday afternoon. This will be a complete dispersal with the exception of Quality Road, who will continue to stand at Lane’s End
One colt shaded 10 seconds Friday as the fastest eighth-mile worker at the first Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company under-tack preview. The two public breeze shows preview next week’s OBS March select juvenile sale. They had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday but were delayed by one day because of bad weather.
Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company general manager Tom Ventura is echoing other 2-year-old sales officials’ upbeat predictions as his company prepares for the year’s largest select juvenile sale on March 15-16 in Ocala, Fla.
Keith Card, the California Thoroughbred breeder who died on Tuesday in Murrieta, Calif., at the age of 83, found himself briefly at the center of the racing world in the fall of 2009.
Raymond "Pat" Buse, an Ohio Thoroughbred owner and former director of Fasig-Tipton, died March 3 in Cincinnati, according to Cincinnati.com. He was 85.
With help from Kentucky Derby contender Anthony's Cross, who runs next in the Santa Anita Derby, owner Arianne de Kwiatkowski is hoping to make her own way in racing with A D K Racing.
Zenyatta is in foal. The 7-year-old Street Cry mare’s pregnancy appeared on an ultrasound scan Thursday morning, 15 days after her mating to Bernardini. Such scans are routine for mares at around two weeks past breeding in order to identify whether the mare is carrying an embryo.
Responding to smaller foal crops in Britain and Ireland, the Tattersalls auction house has made some changes to Europe’s largest Thoroughbred yearling sale, the Tattersalls October auction.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company has postponed this week’s scheduled under-tack show for its March 15-16 select juvenile auction because of forecast rain and high wind. The under-tack preview had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday but now will take place on Friday and Saturday.
The stallion Snow Ridge has been relocated from Pennsylvania to Texas to stand at Bradford Thoroughbred Farm in Palestine.
