Open house at Journeyman Stud
Crystal and Brent Fernung’s Journeyman Stud will host an open house on Jan. 22 at their Ocala, Fla., farm.
Glenye Cain OakfordJan 07, 2011
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.
Richard Simon and his Sez Who Thoroughbred operation, a Florida operation that expanded to become a leading New York breeder in the last decade, are facing foreclosure on an 86-acre property near Ocala, Fla., the Ocala Star-Banner reported Wednesday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Michael Iavarone, president of International Equine Acquisitions Holdings, confirmed Wednesday that the company’s shareholders are considering a takeover offer. The proposed sale takes place as a IEAH’s major financial backer, James Tagliaferri’s TAG Virgin Islands, is facing a $60 million lawsuit by an IEAH shareholder.
With the 2010 racing year now in the books, the sport’s major publications are showing different sires – Giant’s Causeway, Fusaichi Pegasus, and Malibu Moon – as the year’s leading North American general sire, depending on how they count progeny earnings.