LEXINGTON, Ky. - A $170,000 Candy Stripes half-brother to You was the session-leader as of 5:15 p.m. at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's August yearling sale in Florida.
Journeyman Bloodstock, agent, purchased the Candy Stripes colt, who is out of the Homebuilder mare Our Dani. Our Dani's first foal was You, the 2-year-old You and I filly who recently won Saratoga's Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes. Summerfield, agent, sold the colt.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A.P. Indy and Kingmambo will stand in 2002 for $300,000 and $200,000, respectively, according to Will Farish's Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky.
The farm listed their 2001 fees as private. But industry publications have variously listed those fees as $250,000 to $325,000 to for A.P. Indy and $175,000 to $250,000 for Kingmambo.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Jockey Club is projecting a 2002 North American registered foal crop of 35,600, a drop of nearly 5 percent largely caused by losses from Kentucky's mare reproductive loss syndrome.
"At this point, no one knows the exact extent to which MRLS will impact next year's foal crop," The Jockey Club's vice-president for registration, Matt Iuliano, said in a release issued Monday.
"Disparate estimates exist, although the most consistent figure quoted to us is that 20 percent of the mares bred in Kentucky this spring lost their pregnancies due to MRLS."
LEXINGTON, Ky. - As of 6 p.m. Monday, a $305,000 Valid Expectations colt was the opening session leader at Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's five-day yearling sale in Ocala, Fla.
Selling at the one-day select session that opens the auction, the Valid Expectations colt went to Padua Stables. The colt is out of the Timeless Native mare Dame's Rocket and was sold by Kelli Mitchell, agent.
As of 6 p.m., the top filly at the selected session was a $230,000 daughter of Hennessy and the Spanish Drums mare Spanish Dior. Summerfield, agent, sold the filly.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Months after at least 1,200 central Kentucky mares lost their fetuses in the mysterious mare reproductive loss syndrome of April and May, some researchers are monitoring pregnant mares to determine whether or not their fetuses are growing normally.
At a veterinary symposium hosted in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., by Cornell University and the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, reproductive veterinarians noted that the cause of MRLS remains unidentified, and they discussed concerns that fetuses that survived the epidemic might encounter developmental problems.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Before the Keeneland July select sale started the yearling auction season, consignors felt they had reason to be jittery. But even as the general economy slows, the market for selected Thoroughbred yearlings appears to be stronger than ever.
Richard Day made breeding news headlines less than two years ago when he sold a $270,000 Cherokee Run colt who topped the Canadian Breeders' September select auction.
But the "other" yearling Day sold in 1999 gave the Ontario-based breeder his biggest thrill in racing on Aug. 11 at Woodbine.
Sweetest Thing, whom Day sold for $35,000 to trainer Roger Attfield, captured the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes, the third jewel of Canada's Triple Crown, by an impressive 7 1/2 lengths in just her fourth career start.
There are 28 Florida stallions who have first crops at the races this year. Most of them are represented with yearlings in the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's sale of yearlings, which begins Monday and continues through Friday.
Among this group of first-crop stallions, 24 have already produced winners. Foremost among them is the one-time Mockingbird Farm stallion - now in Texas - Valid Expectations.
DEL MAR, Calif. - More changes could be in the works for the Del Mar Yearling Sale, which set a record for average price earlier this week.
After tinkering with the format in recent years, including changing the venue in the mid-1990's and adjusting the catalog size, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association had its most successful sale this year.