Adena fees mostly remain steady
Frank Stronach's Adena Springs Farm will keep its stallions' fees largely the same in 2011, although Ghostzapper and Macho Uno will see their fees trimmed from 2010 levels.
Glenye Cain OakfordNov 11, 2010
Frank Stronach's Adena Springs Farm will keep its stallions' fees largely the same in 2011, although Ghostzapper and Macho Uno will see their fees trimmed from 2010 levels.
Wednesday's session of the Keeneland November mixed sale endured more losses as gross and average fell 21 percent and median dropped by 13 percent. The session-topper was the $410,000 racing or broodmare prospect Lady Alexander. Louisiana-based owners and breeders Ginger and Keith Myers purchased Lady Alexander from the Three Chimneys consignment.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Blame will start his stud career with a $35,000 fee at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., the farm announced Wednesday evening. The 4-year-old Blame enters stud fresh off his head victory over previously undefeated Zenyatta. He will stand alongside his sire, Arch, whose fee will rise from $25,000 this year to $30,000 in 2011.
Three Chimneys Farm has retained Ken McLean as its pedigree consultant following the departure of Anne Peters, who has gone out on her own.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Congrats, who is neck and neck with Bernardini for 2010’s leading freshman sire title, will relocate from Vinery’s Florida farm to its Kentucky division, his majority owner John Sykes has announced.
Travers winner Afleet Express has been retired and will head to stud at Gainesway Farm, where his sire, Afleet Alex, also stands. Gainesway has not set the 3-year-old colt's stud fee yet. Afleet Express's last race was the Travers, in which he beat Fly Down by a nose. A ligament tear sidelined him while he was pointing for the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Frank Stronach hit the headlines again Tuesday at Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale, swooping for the $2,550,000 broodmare Dreamtheimpossible, the last of three mares in foal to hot sire Galileo.
Awesome of Course, sire of undefeated Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Awesome Feather, will relocate from Oklahoma to Journeyman Stud in Florida for 2011.
Keeneland's November breeding stock sale opened Monday in Lexington with three million-dollar mares and 2-percent rise in the average price offset by a 13-percent decline in median price.
Malibu Moon's stud fee will jump from $40,000 to $60,000 in 2011, Spendthrift Farm announced Monday.