Catalogs for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed auction are online at www.obssales.com. The Jan. 18-19 sale will take place in Ocala, Fla., and has 522 horses in its catalog, including 238 yearlings. The auction opens Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. with a consignor-preferred session featuring Hip Nos. 1-190. Day two, also at 11 a.m., is an open session.
King’s Bishop Stakes winner Discreetly Mine, recently retired from racing because of a stifle injury, will start his stud career at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Respect can arrive slowly for the winner of the California Cup Juvenile each fall.
Grade 1 winners Wickedly Perfect, Negligee, and Ave are among the entries to the Jan. 10-14 Keeneland January mixed sale in Lexington, Ky.
Zenyatta hasn’t been turned out in a paddock yet at her new home, Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., but she has been taking some walks since her arrival there on Monday night. On Thursday, the 6-year-old Horse of the Year contender stepped out in what one observer described as “a very large paddock” with a distant view of the broodmares who will be her neighbors during her breeding career at the farm.
Walmac Farm in Lexington, Ky., will offer a $2,000 stud fee reduction for foals sired by the farm’s Kentucky stallions but born out of state in 2012.
After seeing increases in gross and average at its breeding stock sale earlier this week, Arqana posted losses across the board Wednesday at its December yearling auction in France.
Daily Racing Form's Glenye Cain Oakford was at a chilly Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky., on Monday night as Zenyatta arrived from California. She paraded for her fans before heading to Lane's End Farm to begin her breeding career. Owners Ann and Jerry Moss, trainer John Shirreffs, groom Mario Espinoza, and jockey Mike Smith were all on hand.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s December mixed sale posted significant gains in gross and average Monday night, aided by a $130,000 sale-topper in the 3-year-old stakes winner Baltimore Belle.
The 4-year-old stakes-winner Holly’s Way brought $35,000 to lead early selling Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic mixed sale in Timonium, Md.
