A few prominent pinhookers, including Murray Smith and the team of Randy Hartley and Dean DeRenzo, stepped forward and spent money at this week's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale.
Fifteen members, including nine new members, were elected to the board of trustees of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association during a board meeting Wednesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the organization said.
A single seven-figure horse reflects "new reality"
Declines continue at F-T Saratoga's second session
Gross was off 47 percent and the buyback rated soared to 35 percent during the first session of the Fasig-Tipton select yearling sale at Saratoga.
Eskendereya, the Wood Memorial winner and early Kentucky Derby favorite before his retirement with an injury, will enter stud at Taylor Made Farm near Lexington, Ky.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The racing career of Bold Chieftain – which lasted nearly five years, featured 17 wins, 13 stakes wins, and earnings of more than $1.5 million – ended with a last-place finish in the California Dreamin’ Handicap at Del Mar last Sunday.
Keeneland’s reformatted September yearling sale catalog will number 4,857 this year, down 6 percent from last year in a climate of shrinking North American foal crops.
Generations of Hancocks stand behind Claiborne Farm, America's preeminent family-run Thoroughbred farm, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The farm has achieved its age largely by eschewing fashion in favor of old-school principles and by doing what their ancestors and farm owners of all kinds do: cultivating.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland’s reformatted September yearling sale catalog will number 4,857 this year, down 6 percent from last year in a climate of shrinking North American foal crops.
