A sextet of juveniles tied for the fastest time over one furlong on Tuesday during the Barretts May 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale under-tack show, stopping the clock in :10 seconds flat.
A catalog of 485 weanlings and yearlings will be on offer during the Japan Racing Horse Association July select sale, including several horses with North American ties. Among the horses cataloged are a pair of yearlings from the first crop of I’ll Have Another, winner of the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, who entered stud in Japan upon his retirement. He stands at Big Red Farm in Hokkaido.
At a permanent new venue, Barretts Sales is relaunching its brand at the May 28 2-year-olds in training sales at Del Mar, hoping to transfer the success of recent decades at its Pomona location to the popular beachside racetrack. Barretts ceased holding sales on the Los Angeles County fairgrounds in Pomona after its 2-year-olds in training sale in February, and moved its offices to Arcadia, Calif., near Santa Anita racetrack, earlier this spring.
Tim Boyce has been named sales director of the Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana, the subsidiary of the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association announced. Boyce joins the organization after serving as the Fasig-Tipton Texas sales director for 19 years. Fasig-Tipton recently closed its operation in Texas.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale finished as the strongest renewal in the auction’s history on Tuesday, highlighted by the highest-priced offering in the Maryland auction house’s history.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale started off with an unprecedented bang on Monday, led by a $1.2-million Smart Strike filly who became the most expensive horse ever sold at public auction in the state of Maryland.
A Smart Strike filly sold for a sale-record $1.25 million to agent Ben McElroy to set the bar high in the early going of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale's first session Monday in Timonium, Md.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale enters its 2015 renewal off arguably the strongest year by its alumni in the auction’s history.
Two horses tied for the session’s fastest furlong and three for the fastest quarter as the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale’s under-tack preview show concluded with its second session Thursday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.
A filly by Big Brown breezed a furlong in 10 seconds flat to lead the first session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale’s under-tack preview show Wednesday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.
