$250K colt tops Fasig-Tipton session
A $250,000 After Market colt topped Tuesday's opening session as Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling kicked off with mixed results in Timonium, Md.
Glenye Cain OakfordOct 05, 2010
A $250,000 After Market colt topped Tuesday's opening session as Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling kicked off with mixed results in Timonium, Md.
Coolmore Stud became the first buyer since 2007 to pay seven figures for a European auction yearling Tuesday when agent Demi O’Byrne paid about $2 million for a filly by Coolmore sire Galileo.
Jerry Bailey and Lance Robinson’s Gulf Coast Farms, best known as the breeder of champion and classic winner Lookin At Lucky, will disperse its bloodstock due to declining business in mare-leasing programs.
English 2000 Guineas hero Makfi, who beat Goldikova in a French Group 1 this year, has been retired early at age 3 after contracting ringworm, according to Racing Post. Makfi had been considered a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Mile.
Unzip Me's rise to the top of the turf female sprint division in California seemed like a remote prospect at this time last year, when she had won 2 of 5 starts, all on synthetic surfaces.
Grade 1 winner Friends Lake and Grade 2 winner Beethoven will stand in Saudi Arabia in 2011 after undisclosed Saudi interests purchased the two central Kentucky horses.
KNC Investments, a group involving Jerry Jamgotchian that has offered to purchase interests in Lane’s End stallions Lemon Drop Kid and Kingmambo, has filed a motion in Kentucky’s Woodford County Circuit Court in hopes of clearing the way for the horses’ syndicate members to consider their offer.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Juddmonte has pensioned its two-time American Grade 1 winner Cacique at the age of 9 because of fertility trouble.
A filly by Dubawi out of the Sadler’s Wells mare Spirit of Tara brought $1.28 million during the second session of the Goffs Orby yearling sale in Ireland to top all horses sold at the three-day auction, one of the most prestigious in Europe.
Officer, the sire of 20 stakes winners, has been sold to the Korean Racing Authority and will stand in 2011 at the authority’s breeding farm on Jeju Island.