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.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Champion Smarty Jones, the popular 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, will return to his native state of Pennsylvania for the 2011 breeding season.
The Irving Cowan dispersal produced the $310,000 early session-leader Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton’s October yearling sale, a Hard Spun filly out of Cowan’s champion Hollywood Wildcat.
Italian Group 1 winner Hearts of Fire will head for Qatar after being sold Monday for nearly $1 million to top the opening session of the Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale in Newmarket, England.
