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..
The Ocala Breeders Sales Company has cataloged 490 juveniles to its 2011 March select 2-year-old auction, set for March 15-16 at the company’s facility in Ocala, Fla. Each session is scheduled to start at 11 a.m.
Robert LaPenta's Grade 2 winner Cool Coal Man will enter stud this year at Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Fla. A 6-year-old Mineshaft horse, he will stand for $5,000 live foal.
Evening Jewel, The Usual Q.T., and Unzip Me are the finalists for the 2010 California-bred Horse of the Year award, which will be announced Feb. 15.
