Celtic Swing, the European champion who sired Takeover Target and Six Perfections, has died in Italy at age 18, according to Racing Post. The Damister horse was euthanized after developing colitis.
Dual Grade 3 winner American Lion has been retired from racing, the colt’s owner, WInStar Farm, announced Friday.
Enriched appeared in the entries for an $80,000 claimer for maidens at Hollywood Park in May 2009 when trainer Doug O’Neill approached longtime friend Mark Verge about a potential claim.
A total of 466 yearlings have been cataloged for the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale this year.
Harbinger, who capped a four-race win streak with an 11-length victory in this year’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, has been sold for stud duty in Japan.
The Tattersalls auction house based in Newmarket, England, will restructure its juvenile sales in 2011.
For the first time, The Jockey Club is supplementing the Fact Book, its statistical guide to the North American Thoroughbred industry, with online editions for 33 states and Canadian provinces.
Zayat Stables announced Tuesday that its Grade 3 winner Heart Ashley has retired from racing and will go through the auction ring at the 2010 Keeneland November sale.
A colt by the late stallion Wildcat Shoes topped the Fasig-Tipton Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park on Monday when he fetched $111,000 from the Coteau Grove Farm of Keith and Ginger Myers. The Louisiana-bred is a half-brother to 2-year-old stakes winner Toro Bravo.
A Fayette, Ky., Circuit Court judge has ordered Audrey Haisfield and son Marc to pay Fifth Third Bank a total of more than $14.7 million as the guarantors of loans Audrey Haisfield’s Stonewall Farm took out.
