Aided by a $1 million sale-leader, France’s Arqana breeding stock sale continued a strong run for quality European mares started earlier this month at the Tattersalls December sale in Newmarket, England.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders has elected five members to its 11-member board of directors.
Kantharos, who won all three of his starts this year at 2 by a combined margin of 28 1/2 lengths, will start his stud career at Vinery's Florida division. He will stand for $5,000.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Cee’s Tizzy, a former leading sire in California and the sire of two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow, has been pensioned, Harris Farms manager Dave McGlothlin said on Thursday.
William O’Neill, owner of Circle O Farm in Kentucky with his wife, Arlene, died Thursday at his home in Paris, Ky. O’Neill, a former Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Manager of the Year, was 85.
Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., will reduce its stud fee for champion Kitten’s Joy sharply in 2011. A 9-year-old El Prado horse, he will stand for $25,000, down from his 2010 fee of $40,000.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association was scheduled to respond to critics Friday at a special meeting in Ocala, Fla., where a group led by small breeder Gordon Reiss planned to raise questions about the organization’s transparency and the direction of Florida racing and breeding, particularly for smaller breeders.
First, the bad news. Florida’s breeding industry has shrunk dramatically. Between 2007 and 2010, the number of mares bred there fell 52 percent, from 6,383 to 3,076, according to Jockey Club statistics. In the same time frame, the stallion population went from 253 to 123. But Florida has had good news recently on the national racing scene.
Leading Florida sire Wildcat Heir will stand for a higher fee of $10,000 next year, but most of the 13 other stallions at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., will remain at their 2010 fee levels in 2011.
Graded-winning sires Midas Eyes and Champali are headed to Saudi Arabia.
