LEXINGTON, Ky. - At this week's Keeneland January mixed sale, most of the fireworks were centered on one mare in the Taylor Made consignment, Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Desert Stormer. A 12-year-old daughter of Storm Cat, she had all the ingredients to interest major breeders and buyers. She was a top-class winner on the track; she is by the most popular commercial stallion in the world; and she has produced a graded stakes winner, Sahara Gold, as her first offspring.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Foaming Brine, a 6-year-old full sister to graded stakes-winner and popular sire End Sweep, brought $170,000 as Wednesday's session-leader as of 5 p.m. Eastern on day three of Keeneland's January horses of all ages sale.
Foaming Brine, a daughter of Forty Niner and Grade 1 winner Broom Dance (Dance Spell), sold, in foal to Favorite Trick, to Charles H. Deters. The Walnut Green agency sold the unraced mare on behalf of the late Mrs. Jane du Pont Lunger's Christiana Stables, which is dispersing its stock.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Our Dani, whose first foal, You, surprised nearly everyone by becoming a Grade 1 winner, brought a big profit to the state of Louisiana on Tuesday - selling for $625,000, the Keeneland January sale's second-day session-topper.
French agent Robert Nataf signed the ticket on behalf of an unidentified European syndicate. Lane's End, agent, sold the mare for an unusual consignor: the University of Louisiana at Monroe, which obtained the mare as a donation from owner Dolphus Morrison, before You became the force she is today.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Desert Stormer, winner of the 1995 Breeders' Cup Sprint, verified the rule that quality sells high in any market, bringing $3.6 million at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale on Monday, the opening day of the four-day event.
Agent Michael Youngs bought Desert Stormer, a 12-year-old Storm Cat mare who is the dam of graded stakes-winner Sahara Gold (Seeking the Gold) and is in foal to WinStar stallion Kris S.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Valid Appeal, the pensioned stallion who helped build Mockingbird Farm's homebreeding empire, was euthanized Saturday because of the infirmities of old age at 30. He has been buried at the Mockingbird/Tartan cemetery alongside such greats as Dr. Fager and Dark Mirage.
Farm officials said that though Valid Appeal had enjoyed good health throughout his retirement from the breeding shed, he had begun to decline in recent days.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Five years after Soft Gold arrived from Brazil as a racing prospect, he is instead having an impact on California racing as a young stallion.
California owner-breeder John Elardi intended Soft Gold to start in the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar in 1997, but an accident during transit prevented that from happening.
Elardi was left with a stallion prospect with an obscure race record that was difficult to sell to fellow breeders. In recent months, however, they have started to pay attention.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Thoroughbred industry needs to maintain pressure on Congress in 2002 to achieve beneficial legislation, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association CEO Tim Smith and American Horse Council president Jay Hickey warned the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Thursday night.
But Smith also acknowledged that the lobbying funds the NTRA raises through a voluntary check-off program at Thoroughbred sales have dropped significantly since the program's inception in 1999.
Thirty farms representing 114 stallions have donated no-guarantee nominations for the 2002 breeding season, one of the highlights of the annual fund-raiser for Florida Thoroughbred Charities Inc., an arm of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association. The event is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 13 at Steinbrenner's Ramada Inn in Ocala.