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.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Another Pulpit daughter led selling Friday at the Keeneland January sale’s last session. Poetfromthepulpit, a 3-year-old filly out of stakes-placed Kivi, brought $40,000 from agent Carlos Moore as top-priced horse at 3 p.m.
Unusual Heat extended his streak of annual titles as California’s leading stallion by progeny earnings to three in 2010, but his earnings dipped compared to the past two years.
Through Thursday, Keeneland’s January all-ages sale had sold 849 horses for a combined $24,354,850, a 7 percent increase over last season’s aggregate for 816 horses at the same stage. The four-day average also was up, by 3 percent, to $28,687, and the median price of $10,000 was the same as last year’s figure.
