Eskendereya, winner of the Wood Memorial and onetime 2010 Kentucky Derby favorite before his retirement with a soft-tissue injury, will stand for $30,000 in his first year at stud. The 3-year-old Giant’s Causeway colt will stand at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky.
Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga select yearling sale will return to a Monday and Tuesday time slot slightly later in the Saratoga meet in 2011.
Olmodavor is coming back to California for the 2011 breeding season, and it’s not a moment too soon for the team at Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, Calif.
Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, the WinStar Farm homebred that gave trainer Todd Pletcher his first Kentucky Derby victory, has been retired to WinStar in Versailles, Ky, the farm announced Thursday. The 3-year-old Maria’s Mon colt does not have a stud fee yet.
WinStar Farm will host its own breeze show Tuesday to showcase its Keeneland November racing-age consignment, and it hopes the event will put a positive spotlight on its new training facility.
It has been a long decade for New York’s Thoroughbred breeders and stallion farms. But when shovels finally break earth for Genting New York’s casino at Aqueduct racetrack, Empire State horsemen say, the Thoroughbred breeding environment will change dramatically for the better.
A $130,000 Congrats colt topped Wednesday's final session of the Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale, which ended with a 19 percent increase in gross but a fractional decline in average.
Grade 3 winner Coal Play will join the McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds roster in 2011 at a $4,000 fee.
With two sessions in the books with mixed results, Fasig-Tipton’s October yearling sale entered its last session Wednesday with a $105,000 Afleet Alex filly the leader at 4 p.m.
The Irving Cowan dispersal produced the $310,000 session-topper Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton's October yearling sale, a Hard Spun filly out of Cowan's champion Hollywood Wildcat. The session was the second consecutive day to post increases in gross receipts and average price and a decrease in median.
