Barretts in Pomona, Calif., launches its 2011 calendar Monday with the January Mixed Sale, which features a 40-horse consignment from River Edge Farm, the first phase of a dispersal of the Walter Family Trust, and scores of broodmares.
Miesque, the first two-time winner of a Breeders’ Cup race and a champion in both Europe and America, was euthanized Thursday due to the infirmities of old age at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, where she had been pensioned following a brilliant career as a broodmare. She was 27 years old. Imperious on the racecourse, the daughter of Nureyev and the Prove Out mare Pasadoble electrified Breeders’ Cup crowds at Hollywood Park in 1987 and at Churchill Downs a year later when storming to victory in the Mile.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company recorded signirficant overall gains at its two-day winter mixed sale, led by a 46-percent increase in gross revenue with 308 horses selling for a collective $2.37 million.
Leading freshman sire Congrats played a role in a second consecutive session-topper Wednesday as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company closed out its two-day winter mixed auction in Ocala, Fla., with gains.
A $100,000 Congrats yearling contributed to increases Tuesday at the opening consignor-preferred session at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed sale.
Multiple graded stakes winner Suave will relocate from Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky to Vinery’s Florida property, the two farms announced Tuesday.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders will hold its annual fundraising stallion season auction Feb. 3-7 at Starquine.com.
Grade 2 winner Domestic Dispute, sire of four stakes-placed runners, will stand at the Indiana Stallion Station in Anderson, Ind., this year. His fee will be $2,000.
Spendthrift Farm stallion Don’t Get Mad will relocate to Elite Thoroughbreds in Folsom, La., in 2011, the Louisiana farm has announced.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Keeneland January all-ages sale ended Friday with mixed results but showed the kind of market stability auction executives and sellers had hoped to see.
