Smarty Jones relocating to Pennsylvania
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.
Glenye Cain OakfordOct 26, 2010
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.
WinStar Farm has retired Hold Me Back, winner of the 2010 Grade 3 Dominion Day Handicap and the 2009 Grade 2 Lane’s End Stakes, due to a strained tendon, according to WinStar vice-president Elliott Walden.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A trio of six-figure yearlings added some sizzle to the expanded Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale’s opening session here Monday.
A. P. Indy's Grade 2-winning son Shaniko will relocate from Kentucky to Louisiana for the 2011 breeding season, according to Millennium Farms.
Adena Springs will move its stallion Olmodavor from Ontario to California for the 2011 breeding season, the farm announced Monday.
Silver City, who spent some time on the Kentucky Derby trail in 2009, and Jet Phone, whose lone runner is multiple stakes winner Aces N Kings, will both be standing stud at Valor Farm in Pilot Point, Texas, in 2011.
Unusual Suspect, winless in 12 starts but facing a steady diet of graded stakes competition, gets a good opportunityh to enhance the status of his sire Unusual Heat when trainer Barry Abrams sends him out in next Saturday's California Cup Classic at Oak Tree's Hollywood meet.
Pollard's Vision, sire of Grade 1 winner Blind Luck, will get a fee raise from $10,000 to $12,500 in 2011 at Wintergreen Stallion Station in Midway, Ky., the farm announced Thursday. But Wintergreen will keep its other sires' fees at 2010 levels.