Irving Cowan, who raced homebred champion Hollywood Wildcat with his late wife Marjorie, will disperse his bloodstock. The dispersal will not include Hollywood Wildcat, whom Cowan will keep.
Fasig-Tipton's chairman and senior auctioneer, Walt Robertson, will retire at the end of November after 35 years with the Kentucky-based auction house.
Pleasant Tap, the champion older male of 1992 and the sire of a champion, was euthanized on Friday at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky., after contracting laminitis, the farm said on Monday. He was 23.
Quality Road, one of the top contenders for the upcoming $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, will stand at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., after making his final career start in that Nov. 6 race at Churchill Downs, it was jointly announced by the farm and by the 4-year-old colt’s breeder-owner, Edward P. Evans.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Careless Jewel, an 11-length winner of the Alabama Stakes last year, has retired from racing and will be offered in the Fasig-Tipton fall mixed sale Nov. 7.
Juvenile consignors are generally applauding Fasig-Tipton’s announcement Thursday that it will move its boutique 2-year-old sale from Calder Race Course in Miami to the Palm Meadows training center in Boynton Beach, Fla.
A nearly four-decade involvement in California Thoroughbred racing will largely end for Marty and Pam Wygod when they offer their West Coast breeding stock in a dispersal at Barretts in Pomona, Calif., on Tuesday.
Fasig-Tipton's select 2-year-old sale will relocate in 2011 from its usual venue at Calder Race Course to the Palm Meadows training facility in Boynton Beach, Fla., about 45 miles north of Gulfstream Park.
The Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling sale ended its three-day run Thursday with across-the-board declines, despite a $2 million sale-topper.
Kentucky horseman and former farm manager Ralph Kercheval died Oct. 6 in Lexington. He was 98.
