LEXINGTON, Ky. - When a horse becomes a promising Triple Crown candidate or wins a graded stakes race, many people reap the rewards. A couple of 3-year-old stakes winners have borne this out recently.
Wood Memorial winner Buddha, bred by Minnesotans Kip and Suzanne Knelman, started enhancing the value of his dam, Cahooters, back in the winter, when he first attracted attention by winning his maiden by 4 1/4 lengths and an allowance race by 9 1/2.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A three-quarter-sister to Wood Memorial victor Buddha was the $443,000 session-leader at 5 p.m. in Equine Spectrum's online auction on Wednesday.
Eishin Bridle, an 8-year-old mare by Buddha's grandsire Unbridled, went through the virtual auction ring in foal to El Condor Pasa, but the foal, which is due imminently, was not included in the sale.
As of 5 p.m., with 17 lots still to sell, Equine Spectrum had not yet released the identities of buyers or of any lots who failed to reach their reserves.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Topped by an $850,000 Unbridled's Song colt, Tuesday's Keeneland select 2-year-old sale had mixed results, with financial increases clouded by a sharp gain in the buyback rate.
Stan Fulton, owner of Sunland Park in New Mexico, bought the sale-topper from Robert Scanlon, agent. Owner John Oxley, who raced 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos and currently has Derby hopeful Booklet, bought the day's top-priced filly, a $750,000 daughter of Pulpit.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Owner-breeder Diane Perkins of Wimborne Farm in Paris, Ky., announced plans to sell the farm and disperse all bloodstock, including La Gueriere, dam of graded stakes-winner Lasting Approval.
According to a release issued Tuesday by Bruce Hundley, whose Saxony Farm will handle the dispersal, Perkins will sell about 100 mares, foals, and yearlings at a public auction at the farm on July 13. The farm and all of its equipment will be sold the same day.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Grand Slam filly breezed a quarter-mile in 20.80 seconds to top the worktab at Monday's final under-tack show for the April 16 Keeneland select 2-year-old sale in Lexington.
The filly, a daughter of the stakes-placed Cozzene mare Voluptuous, is in Asmussen Horse Center's consignment and sells as hip 92. She will be sold on behalf of Grunwald Racing LLC.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Meadow Star, North America's champion 2-year-old filly of 1990, died Thursday after complications from foaling, Carl Icahn's Foxfield operation announced Friday. She was 14.
Meadow Star's foal, a Fusaichi Pegasus colt, also died.
The mare, who won her championship title after an undefeated juvenile season in 1990, died at the Hagyard Davidson McGee equine hospital near Lexington. She had been boarded at Trackside Farm in Versailles, Ky.
ARCADIA, Calif. - A new shooter in the California-bred handicap division may have been unveiled on the Santa Anita Derby undercard last Saturday.
Hot Market, whose career was under a cloud at this time last year because of a sesamoid injury, won a $67,260 allowance race in by far the best performance of his nine-race career.
Owned by John Harris and Per Antonsen, Hot Market won by a length and ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.39. The victory suggests Hot Market is on course for a stakes for older male Cal-breds.
The Maryland-bred champions of 2001 will be honored on Wednesday evening at the Maryland Horse Breeders Association's annual awards dinner at the Improv in Baltimore. Three days later, many of last year's stars will be in action at Pimlico for the ninth annual Maryland Spring Challenge Day, a celebration of the state's breeding industry.
Four stakes, worth a combined $335,000 and restricted to horses foaled in Maryland, are offered in addition to the $100,000 Federico Tesio Stakes, Maryland's prep for the Triple Crown, which includes a bonus of $25,000 for Maryland-bred runners.
A thousand acres of prime real estate, sitting on Highway 200 just west of Ocala proper, has had several incarnations in the past 50 years. It began as a cattle ranch, was made over into Tartan Farms, again into Mockingbird Farm, and now is the property of Eugene and Laura Melnyk of Toronto.
The official residence of the Melnyks, however, is the Caribbean island country of Barbados.
Phil Hronic, formerly the farm manager for Franks Farm, South is completing his first 100 days on the job as general manager of Winding Oaks Farm, the newest name of the Thoroughbred complex.