High-quality mares and broodmare prospects were in demand Monday at Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale, where the opening session offered the feast-or-famine trend many sellers said they had expected.
Society Selection became the Keeneland November sale’s first million-dollar horse Monday morning when Coolmore Stud went to $1.85 million to acquire her from Irving Cowan.
Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider will make Breeders' Cup Classic winner Blame available for breeders to view this week at Keeneland on Tuesday and Wednesday at trainer Al Stall Jr.'s Keeneland barn.
The weekend's Breeders' Cup results caused million-dollar ripples Sunday in Lexington, where Juvenile Fillies winner Awesome Feather and Filly and Mare Sprint winner Dubai Majesty were among nine horses to sell for $1 million or more at Fasig-Tipton's November sale. The dam of a third Breeders' Cup victor, undefeated Juvenile winner Uncle Mo, also brought seven figures, but these were not enough to prevent across-the-board declines.
Life At Ten has been scratched from Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale and plans call for her to remain in training with Todd Pletcher.
It won’t be long into Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton November breeding stock sale where the future of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Awesome Feather will be decided.
Kentucky’s November breeding stock sales start Sunday at Fasig-Tipton before moving to Keeneland on Monday morning. The Thoroughbred market has seen a little sunshine in the last 12 months, and sellers are hoping that will spur some late-year growth in demand for the weanlings, breeding stock, and racing-age horses that will hit the auction ring between now and Nov. 20, when Keeneland’s 13-day auction ends.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The frustrations of the modern California Thoroughbred breeder and farm owner evaporated momentarily for Cal Fischer as Soul Candy roared to the lead in the final furlong of the $150,000 California Cup Classic at Hollywood Park on Oct. 30.
Sword Dance, the pensioned sire of the 1997 Arlington Million winner, Marlin, died in Florida earlier this week at age 26.
Runnymede Farm was founded in 1867, and in the ensuing 143 years there aren’t many things its owners, the Clay family, haven’t accomplished in the world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. But this weekend they’re about to do something they’ve never done before: run a horse in a Breeders’ Cup race.
