Eclipse Award champion Honor Code has been sold to stand at Yushun Stallion Station in Japan beginning with the 2024 breeding season.
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Led by a Vronsky colt purchased for $100,000, Tuesday’s Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale in Pleasanton showed an increase in several key categories compared to the 2022 auction.
According to the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, which conducted the sale, 115 yearlings sold for $1,064,900, an average of $9,260 and a median price of $5,500. There were 19 horses listed as not sold and 32 withdrawn.
In 2022, 105 yearlings sold for $871,100, an average of $8,296 and a median of $4,500.
Modern Games, whose five Grade/Group 1 wins included two Breeders' Cup races, has been retired from racing, owner-breeder Godolphin announced on Tuesday.
Stud plans are yet to be announced for the son of international super-sire Dubawi, who Godolphin stands under its Darley Stallions banner at its Dalham Hall Stud in England. In addition to England and Ireland, Darley has stallion bases in the United States, Australia, and Japan.
Elysian Field
Filly by Hard Spun – Elysian, by Smart Strike
Bred in Ontario by Anderson Farms ($50,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase by Clinton Road Stable; $70,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-old purchase by Bruce Brown, agent)
Kaukokaipuu
Colt by Mr Speaker – Grey Pride, by Mizzen Mast
Bred in Ontario by Sean Fitzhenry ($10,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase by Tedston Holder)
The consistent Kaukokaipuu has already proven a bargain. With storied North American breeding programs on both sides of his pedigree, he won the Queenston Stakes in June before finishing second in the Grade 3 Marine Stakes, pushing his career earnings to $224,413, more than 22 times his $10,000 purchase price as a yearling.
In January 2022, as farms around Kentucky began delivering new foals, the fields were as empty as they’d ever been at Pin Oak Stud in Versailles, Ky. Josephine Abercrombie had been winding down commercial operations at the farm, which she and her father had purchased in the 1950s and which she had developed into a prominent nursery. The farm’s active broodmares and their weanlings had been sold in a dispersal the prior September, and its yearlings had also been sold. Abercrombie died peacefully at her home on the farm Jan. 5, 2022, just 10 days shy of her 96th birthday.
Stanley House
Colt by Army Mule – Stormy’s Song, by Unbridled’s Song
Bred in Ontario by Elevage II and St. Elias Stables ($80,000 Keeneland November weanling purchase by Castleton Stables; $120,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase by Michael DePaulo)
Stanley House, currently ranked number one on Daily Racing Form’s King’s Plate Watch, is the favorite for Sunday’s Plate Trial, in which he will attempt to become the latest stakes winner for young stallion Army Mule.
Kalik
Colt by Collected – Coronation Street, by Street Cry
Bred in Ontario by Peter A. Berglar Racing Interests and Anderson Farms ($80,000 Fasig-Tipton November weanling purchase by Spin to Win Stables; $200,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Whitehorse, Madaket, and e Five Racing)
The Canadian classic series tests 3-year-olds on multiple surfaces over a route of ground. Both sides of Kalik’s pedigree show versatility, as well as some route ability.