LEXINGTON, Ky. - Zibilene, a half-sister to 1994 Breeders' Cup Mile winner Barathea, brought $2,236,500 on Wednesday at the penultimate session of the Tattersalls December mare sale in England. The price was the highest so far at the four-session auction, which opened Monday.
Barouche Stud on the Isle of Man bought 4-year-old Zibilene, sold in foal to Machiavellian. Gerald Leigh's Eydon Hall Stud consigned her. The mare is by Rainbow Quest out of the Group 1 winner Brocade (Habitat).
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Barretts March sale of 2-year-olds in training will take place a week earlier than usual in 2002, with horses set to go through the ring in Pomona, Calif., on March 5.
"The primary motivation is to put the sale in a better proximity to the Fasig-Tipton Calder sale in Florida, which makes the trip for our foreign buyers a little easier," said Jerry McMahon, president and general manager of Barretts Equine Sales. The Fasig-Tipton sale at Calder is scheduled for Feb. 26.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Spendthrift Farm stallion Kerosene, sire of stakes-winner Power Flame, was euthanized on Nov. 23 after becoming paralyzed because of illness. The Lexington farm announced the 15-year-old stallion's death Tuesday.
Spendthrift issued a release that said preliminary necropsy results revealed a mass on one of the horse's kidneys, which apparently caused encephalitis followed by paralysis.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - As Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's December winter mixed sale entered its second and final day in Timonium, Md., a $100,000 Citidancer filly was the early session leader, as of 5 p.m. Eastern.
Buzz Chace, agent, signed for the weanling daughter of the stakes-winning Majestic Light mare Majestic Dream. Litz Bloodstock Services, agent, consigned the chestnut filly.
A third generation of Sam-Son Farm's impressive broodmare band is expected to be honored Dec. 14 when the Sovereign Awards are presented at a ceremony in downtown Toronto that will crown Canada's champions for 2001.
The remarkable Dance Smartly, one of best racemares this country has produced, accomplished an unusual feat in 2001 when her daughter Dancethruthedawn (by Mr. Prospector) became the mare's second consecutive Queen's Plate winner.
A total of 32 stallions were on exhibit at last Sunday's Florida Thoroughbred Farm Managers annual outing.
Among the two dozen stallion exhibitors was Bruce Hill, farm manager at Padua Stables. Padua Stables had on display its three stallions, Yes It's True, Dance Master, and Exchange Rate.
In front of the Padua Stables barn was a sign announcing Delaware Township would join its stallion ranks for 2002. Hill said Padua had recently completed a deal with Ebby Novak, whose New Farm owns Delaware Township, to stand the Grade 1-winning sprinter at Padua for $6,500.
When it was mentioned to Tom Gallo that his consignment spans nearly three pages in the catalog for Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic December Mixed sale, which begins Sunday, he laughed and said, "I like that."
Gallo, who has consigned 79 horses, many of them New York-breds, to the two-day sale in Timonium, Md., which has 691 horses cataloged, said, "This is one of our bigger consignments. I usually have 50, 60, and 70 horses."
The two-day Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed sale, set to get under way in Timonium, Md., on Sunday is like a department store at Christmas - lots of quality choices, many at bargain prices.
In recent years there have been a number of storied sales. In 1992, $800 was all it took to buy a weanling filly by Raja's Revenge, later named Incredible Revenge. The speedy Incredible Revenge went on to win 16 stakes and earn $638,578 during her six-year career.