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.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Eastern fall yearling auction ended Wednesday with gains in gross and average and a slightly lower median.
The Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling sale’s second of three sessions ended with average and median down, but so slightly as to remain nearly level with last season. Gross fell 6 percent.
One day after showing increases in gross and average but a significant downturn in median price, Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Eastern fall yearling auction entered its second and final day Wednesday with a session-leading $150,000 Corinthian colt.
