Carrol Castille's Whispering Oaks Farm is expanding into the stallion business at a time when many Louisiana breeders are pulling back on the sire front, but Castille says he is entering the stallion game with confidence.
Comedero, who won five consecutive stakes last year, and Strong Suit, who won the Group 2 Coventry in England, were headline acts for the Arkansas breeding program in 2010, and Bill McDowell was behind both horses.
When Thoroughbred numbers and prices go down, breeders and stallion farms are among the first to suffer downturns. But they’re not the only ones. In central Kentucky, Thoroughbred breeding and racing drive a less obvious but large economy, from the companies supplying farm equipment to horse van drivers to veterinarians.
Glenye Cain Oakford gets all the answers from Gainesway Farm president Antony Beck.
Smarty Jones, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner and champion 3-year-old male of 2004, will shuttle to Uruguay this year for stallion work.
Keeneland has cataloged 169 horses for its April 2-year-old auction, which will take place on April 11 in Keeneland’s sale pavilion in Lexington, Ky.
Chief Seattle, runner-up in the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has relocated to a new farm in Indiana, The Stallion Company has announced.
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.
