Keeneland fine-tunes September sale
Keeneland has altered the format for its September yearling sale slightly but will keep the night sessions for its first two days in 2011.
Glenye Cain OakfordFeb 16, 2011
Keeneland has altered the format for its September yearling sale slightly but will keep the night sessions for its first two days in 2011.
A $77,000 North Light colt named Late Night Sky was the inaugural sale-topper Tuesday night at the first Pegasus Training Center 2-year-old auction in Redmond, Wash. The sale sold 17 horses for a combined $633,000.
Barretts has cataloged 105 juveniles to its March select 2-year-old sale, which is slated for March 21 at California’s Fairplex Park.
Mid-February -- not-so-coincidentally around Valentine’s Day -- marks the beginning of the breeding season. Sometime in late February, Zenyatta is scheduled to travel from her Kentucky home at Lane’s End Farm near the town of Versailles to Darley Stud in nearby Lexington, where Sheikh Maktoum’s American-based stallion Bernardini holds court.
Just as Well, a Grade 3 winner and multiple Grade 1-placed runner, has been sold for stud duty in South Africa.
Unusual Suspect, winner of the Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup last November, is in quarantine until late February for an eventual relocation to Australia for stud duty, trainer Barry Abrams said.
Team Valor and Denali Stud have formed what they termed a “strategic alliance” with provisions for Denali to consign all of Team Valor’s auction horses.
The horsemen of Ocala, much like their brethren in central Kentucky, have been deeply affected in the last few years by a combination of negative trends in the breeding business. The number of Thoroughbred mares bred in Florida from 2007 to 2010 fell by more than half, from 6,383 to 3,076, according to Jockey Club statistics, a whopping decrease for a breeding state long recognized as second only to Kentucky.
A $245,000 Indian Charlie filly who is closely related to two-time champion Indian Blessing topped Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's winter mixed sale in Lexingtion, Ky..
An $245,000 Indian Charlie filly who is closely related to two-time champion Indian Blessing led early selling Monday at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky’s winter mixed sale in Lexington, Ky..