There was another seven-figure colt Monday night at the Keeneland September yearling sale's second and final select session. The $2.05 million son of Distorted Humor did not bring enough money to bump Sunday night's $4.2 million A. P. Indy colt from sale-leading position, but his price--to an anonymous group bidding under the name Flag Lake #2--gave auction-goers plenty to talk about.
Lane’s End stallion Kingmambo, sire of 1999 Belmont winner and 2000 champion older male Lemon Drop Kid, is unlikely to return to the breeding shed in 2011, farm owner Will Farish told the Blood-Horse.
As the bidding for Hip No. 14 escalated, even the jaded horse-traders in Keeneland’s sale pavilion craned their necks like kids at a circus to spot who, in this infamously lackluster economy, would bid more than $4 million, for a yearling?
Benjamin Leon of Besilu Collection in Ocala, Fla., took on some of the Thoroughbred market's biggest bidders Sunday night at Keeneland and won, taking home a $4.2 million A.P. Indy colt out of Zenyatta's Grade 1-winning half-sister Balance. That was the most expensive horse sold at the reformatted Keeneland September sale's opening session.
An $80,000 full brother to stakes winner Double Malt headed the open session of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.
An $80,000 full brother to stakes winner Double Malt headed the open session of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.
Keeneland’s September yearling sale, the world’s largest Thoroughbred yearling auction, gets underway Sunday night amid hopes that a new format and bargain-seeking buyers will help sellers profit on the last crop of yearlings bred on relatively high stud fees before the market bubble collapsed.
According to court documents filed Friday in a Jacksonville, Fla., bankruptcy court, Stonewall Farm owner Audrey Haisfield intends to put the Kentucky farm property, totaling about 232 acres in Midway, for $8.4 million.
The New York Breeders’ Sales Company has canceled its fall breeding stock sale, citing “complications arising from scheduling.”
John Werner Kluge, the owner of Morven Stud who campaigned Grade 1 winners Unaccounted For and Buy the Firm, has died in Virginia at age 95.
