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Mage catapults Runnymede to new heights
Historic Runnymede Farm will be hoping for more Mage magic in its Keeneland September yearling consignment this month.
Nicole RussoSep 05, 2023
Historic Runnymede Farm will be hoping for more Mage magic in its Keeneland September yearling consignment this month.
A colt by Practical Joke brought $110,000 on Monday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park. Al Pike, agent, purchased the Texas-bred, who is from the stakes-winning mare Jan’s Perfect Star.
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Fresh off celebrating this month's King's Plate winner as a graduate, the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's Ontario division hosts the Canadian premier yearling sale on Wednesday. The CTHS will hold the British Columbia yearling and mixed sale the same day.
Yearlings representing breeding programs across the Southwest – as well as Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania – are among the more than 260 prospects that will be on offer during the Texas summer yearling sale Monday at Lone Star Park.
Puca, the dam of Kentucky Derby winner Mage, will be offered at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale by Case Clay Thoroughbred Management, a new operation for a lifelong Thoroughbred professional.
With strong results from its graduates, including a recent debut win from last year's sale-topper, and exciting new stallions in the mix, the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association summer yearling and mixed sale on Tuesday has momentum.
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A pair of $380,000 colts, by Violence and Practical Joke, led the way as the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale finished with a record gross and one of its best median figures all-time on Monday evening.
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A $380,000 Violence colt led the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale, as, with a number of prominent buyers active, the auction opened with an improved average and median.
Tuesday's Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale in Pleasanton will be held at a troubling time for racing on the West Coast.
As the yearling sales market rolled through Saratoga, Keeneland announced this week that it has cataloged 4,194 horses for its September yearling sale.