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.
The Phipps family, owners of some of the world’s most productive and coveted bloodstock, will sell 16 of its mares and racing-age fillies at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps announced Thursday.
A Jacksonville, Fla., bankruptcy court judge’s order has cleared the way for Stonewall Farm stallion Da Stoops to be auctioned.
Lost Soldier, sire of 2005 sprint champion Lost in the Fog, died Tuesday at Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, Ky., apparently of a heart attack.
