Smarty Jones, winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby, might head back to his home state of Pennsylvania, if his breeder and co-owner, Pat Chapman, can put together a deal to relocate him from Kentucky.
A $50,000 Mass Media colt, half-brother to 2010 stakes winner Awesome Son, set the standard Wednesday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale in Ocala, Fla.
The bankrupt Stonewall Farm entities that own the stallions Value Plus and Da Stoops have filed motions opposing a lender’s effort to take over and sell the sires at the Keeneland November auction.
Academy Award, a Grade 2 winner and one of the last sons of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, was euthanized Tuesday at the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., because of chronic hoof abscesses that had become debilitating.
A $280,000 filly from Grade 1 winner Any Given Saturday’s first crop helped lift the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s August select yearling sale Tuesday in Ocala, Fla. The single select session ended the day with increases in gross, average, and median.
A partnership including Ro Parra’s Millennium Farms and breeder and owner Bill Heiligbrodt has purchased second-crop sire Closing Argument from the group that stood him this year at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington.
The Jockey Club’s Board of Stewards has voted to deny Thoroughbred owner and breeder Ernie Paragallo and former trainer Chad Moore all privileges of The American Stud Book following their convictions on animal cruelty charges.
The Jockey Club announced Saturday that it expects the registered North American Thoroughbred foal crop to fall again in 2011, to the smallest size since 1973.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company will consolidate its February and March select juvenile sales in 2011 into a single select 2-year-old auction March 15-16.
Catalogs for the Barretts California Cup yearling sale and the complete dispersal of Pam and Marty Wygod’s West Coast breeding stock, both scheduled for October, are now available online.
