A colt by Malibu Moon, the first foal out of the stakes-winning Out of Place mare Meditations, brought $300,000 to lead all horses sold on Sunday during the Keeneland September yearling sale.
Bonnie and Tommy Hamilton of Silverton Hill have been active throughout the Keeneland September yearling sale so far, and they brought home the $560,000 session topper at Friday's sixth session to close out week one of the 14-day auction. The session-topping Unbridled's Song colt is out of the Grade 3-placed stakes winner Sweet Nanette.
A-list buyers were still on the grounds and buying Friday afternoon as the Keeneland September yearling sale neared the end of its first week, and five days of upbeat results appeared to justify Keeneland executives’ decision to reformat the 14-day auction.
A pair of $550,000 Smart Strike yearlings were the peak of the market Thursday at during a lively fifth session at Keeneland's September yearling sale.
Thoroughbred shareholders Ashley Andrews and Robert Raphaelson have provided details of an offer, including details of buyer's representative Jerry Jamgotchian's fee, to purchase a share in Lemon Drop Kid and Kingmambo to the syndicates that stand those stallions at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky.
Domestic buyers continued to dominate the upper market Thursday at the Keeneland September yearling sale’s fifth session, where a $500,000 Smart Strike colt that Ahmed Zayat bought was leading the sale prices by mid-afternoon.
A Woodford County, Ky., Circuit Court judge has granted Lane’s End Stallions a temporary restraining order to prevent Ashley Andrews, a shareholder in classic winner and sire Lemon Drop Kid, and Robert Raphaelson, Andrews’s partner in a share of Kingmambo, from selling those shares to a group represented by California-based owner and breeder Jerry Jamgotchian.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Stonewall Farm and its single largest creditor, the Harleysville National Bank successor Stone Wall Acquisition, have worked out an agreement that appears likely to allow Stonewall to stand Value Plus and four other stallions at its Ocala, Fla., property.
The Jockey Club has received live foal reports from North American breeders of 27,233 foals so far this year, a 14.2 percent decline compared with the number of live foal reports received by this time last year, the organization said on Thursday
A $700,000 Malibu Moon filly led selling Wednesday at the two-week Keeneland September yearling sale's fourth session on an afternoon that saw much upper-market activity from domestic shoppers. Craig Lavin Bernick of Glen Hill Farm in Ocala, Fla., bought the session-topping daughter of Grade 3-placed Erhu from the Elm Tree Farm agency.
