Free Spirit's Joy headed to Old Friends retirement home
Free Sprit’s Joy, winner of the 1991 Super Derby, is the newest addition to the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.
Glenye Cain OakfordOct 15, 2010
Free Sprit’s Joy, winner of the 1991 Super Derby, is the newest addition to the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.
Munnings, a multiple Grade 2 winner, has retired to Coolmore’s North American division, Ashford Stud, in Versailles, Ky., where he will take up stud duties in 2011.
The California Cup yearling sale at Barretts in Pomona, Calif., showed a year-to-year increase in average price earlier this week, the first such increase since 2006 and one that left organizers optimistic that California’s yearling market can rebound from low returns in recent years.
Ann and Jerry Moss’s homebred Grade 2 winner Neko Bay has been retired from racing to enter stud in 2011 at Wintergreen Stallion Station in Midway, Ky.
The California Cup yearling sale at Barretts in Pomona, Calif., ended two days of sales on Wednesday with increases in average and median prices compared with 2009.
The Tattersalls October sale wrapped up its Book 2 portion Thursday with a higher gross than last year and with median and average prices essentially level.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Classic winner Da’ Tara and a trio of Grade 1-performing mares are among top-class performers cataloged to the upcoming Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November breeding stock sales. The Keeneland sale starts Nov. 8 and ends on Nov. 20. The Fasig-Tipton sale runs Nov. 7-8.
Kenny Troutt and Bill Casner have dissolved their partnership in WinStar Farm, the two horsemen said on Wednesday. In a release, Casner said that the dissolution “is a business strategy that is mutually beneficial at this point in our lives.” The partnership's horse Super Saver won the Kentucky Derby this year.
Five stallions owned by Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs will stand in 2011 at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in New York, the two farms announced on Wednesday.
The White Fox is dead. And his death this spring passed unnoticed, unlike 2002, when mainstream publications from USA Today to National Geographic trumpeted the boy king’s arrival.