Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., will host a stallion open house and silent auction to coincide with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale, from Saturday, Feb. 8 through Monday, Feb. 10.
Guests will be able view the stallions at the farm’s stallion barn from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern and lunch will be served.
The stud barn of Racing Hall of Famer Seabiscuit at Ridgewood Ranch in Willits, Calif., has officially been listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The designation puts the barn among the federal government’s official list of places, objects, and buildings deemed worthy of preservation, and may qualify the property for grants and tax incentives. The announcement came after a 15-month nomination process was spearheaded by the Seabiscuit Heritage Foundation.
Christine Hosier will join the staff of Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., serving as the operation’s stallion season sales and bookings manager.
A native of South Florida, Hosier previously worked at Claiborne Farm and served as director of sales at Denali Stud. She also spent time working for The Jockey Club.
Radio Relay, a winner in each of his six campaigns, will begin his stallion career at Elegance Unlimited Sport Horses in Hartford, Mich., for an advertised fee of $500.
The 9-year-old son of Kafwain won 18 of 55 starts running in the Mid-Atlantic, Florida, and Canada, for earnings of $288,012. He won at distances from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles, on dirt and synthetic surfaces.
Radio Relay was last owned and trained by Luis Calderon. He was a $100,000 purchase by Bill Farish at the 2006 Keeneland September yearling sale.
Grade 2 winner Petionville will relocate to Murmur Farm in Darlington, Md., for the 2014 breeding season, BloodHorse reports. He will stand for an advertised fee of $6,000.
The 22-year-old son of Seeking the Gold stood the past two seasons at Penn Ridge Farm near Harrisville, Pa. He will remain the property of Everest Stable, which bought the horse for $190,000 at the 1993 Keeneland September yearling sale and campaigned him during his racing career.
The first impression that a farm gives to its visitors is not the gates that welcome them to the property but often the fences that line roads on the drive to get there.
Those fences have a dual purpose, not only keeping the horses in their confines but serving as the roadside advertisement of a farm’s attention to detail, safety, and upkeep. The quality of a farm’s fencing also can affect its property value.
By definition, it is all but impossible for a “filly sire” to become an important sire of sires. Future sires are almost invariably culled from among outstanding Grade 1-winning sons of top sires, since they are the horses who receive the best – these days, sometimes the only – opportunities at stud.
The Cessna 172 is a single-engine, fixed-wing private plane that seats four, costs about $290,000 new, and can be seen by the dozens at regional airports throughout the world. The plane was going to be Steve Coburn’s new hobby a few years ago.
“I wanted to buy an airplane,” Coburn said last weekend. “My wife said no.”
Wolf Pack Jack has been named 2013’s Iowa-bred Horse of the Year, edging out Boji Moon by a narrow margin to earn the honor.
The Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association bases it annual honors on earnings. Wolf Pack Jack earned $154,770 during his 3-year-old campaign, while Boji Moon earned $149,234 as a 2-year-old in 2013. Both also earned their respective divisional awards.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Executiveprivilege, who won a pair of Grade 1 wins as a 2-year-old in 2012, has been retired, trainer Bob Baffert said.
Executiveprivilege never returned to her best form in a three-race campaign last summer and fall, and has been sent to Kentucky to be bred, though Baffert said a stallion choice had not been finalized as of Thursday.
