Negligee, the first of three Grade 1 winners set to sell Monday at Keeneland’s January sale, went for $625,000 to an unidentified buyer represented by agents Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin of Hunter Valley Farm.
Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky.,will host an open house from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday. Visitors can register to win 2011 seasons to the stallion roster’s newest addition, first-year stallion and multiple Grade 2 winner Tizdejavu, and to Crestwood stallions Unbridled Energy, Visionaire, Taste of Paradise, Noble Causeway, and Kipling.
The late Edward P. Evans’s Jim Dandy winner A Little Warm has been withdrawn from Keeneland’s upcoming January all-ages sale as he continues his recovery from ankle surgery.
Crystal and Brent Fernung’s Journeyman Stud will host an open house on Jan. 22 at their Ocala, Fla., farm.
The Keeneland January all-ages auction, which will run from Jan. 10-14, takes place while Thoroughbred breeders and sellers are nursing a fragile hope that the commercial Thoroughbred market might claw its way back to health.
Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs breeding and racing program has dominated the breeders Eclipse Award voting in the last decade. Brereton C. Jones ended 2010 as North America’s second-leading breeder. Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year contender Blame represents a new level of achievement for the breeding partnership of Claiborne Farm and Adele B. Dilschneider.
Vinery named Derek MacKenzie its director of public sales Thursday. The Canadian has been Vinery’s yearling manager for the last three years.
Adena Springs led North American breeders by earnings, both in partnership and individually, for the eighth consecutive year in 2010, according to year-end statistics compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Darley will host an open house at its Lexington, Ky., Jonabell Farm facility during the Keeneland January sale from Jan. 10-14.
A Horse of the Year title can boost a stallion’s first-year fee and the price of a mare’s first few foals, but the title’s influence dims over time as the horse’s talent as a sire or dam becomes breeders’ and buyers’ most important reference point.
