E Dubai, sire of the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Desert Code, has been relocated to Ghost Ridge Farms in Pennsylvania and will stand there for the 2011 breeding season, according to the farm. A stud fee will be announced at a later date, according to stallion manager Carl McEntee.
It wasn’t a home run. It may not even have been a double. But the Keeneland September yearling sale, which wrapped up on Sunday after 14 days of selling, posted solid returns that may have signaled that the bloodstock bust is over.
The Keeneland sale continued to show tepid signs of reinvigoration during the 12th session of the 14-day bellwether sale on Friday, one day after gross receipts surpassed the entire total sales figure from the similarly sized sale last year.
The number of live Thoroughbred foals produced in California has dropped by nearly 50 percent in the last five years, according to statistics released earlier this month by the Jockey Club.
Topped by a $95,000 Malibu Moon filly, prices Thursday at the Keeneland September yearling sale remained far stronger than the comparable session last year and total sales for the auction surpassed last year’s total, with three days still remaining.
A colt by Mineshaft out of the Forty Niner mare Date Stone was the highest-priced horse sold during the 11th session of the 14-day Keeneland September sale by late afternoon.
AA filly by Closing Argument out of the Out of Place mare Fit Right In sold for $155,000 on Wednesday during the 10th session of the 14-day Keeneland September sale to establish the top price of all horses sold, on a day when prices remained relatively strong compared with burst-bubble returns in 2009.
Bidding and prices during the ninth session of Keeneland’s 14-day September yearling sale dampened considerably Tuesday compared to previous sessions as the market began to show signs of weakness after relatively strong results earlier in the sale.
Artax, the champion sprinter of 1999, the year he won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, has been sold to Brazilian interests.
A gray son of Tapit out of the Ikari mare Victory Road brought $450,000 early in the session to lead the eighth day of selling at the Keeneland September yearling sale on Monday.
