LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dialed In, last year's Florida Derby winner, has retired from racing to enter stud next year at John Phillips's Darby Dan Farm in Lexington.
A group headed by Darby Dan general manager Robert Hammond and Doug Cauthen have acquired the colt's breeding rights, but Robert LaPenta, who campaigned Dialed In, will retain an interest in the 4-year-old Mineshaft colt.
Airdrie Stud will raise stud fees on two of its 11 stallions next year, the Midway, Ky., farm announced Tuesday.
Proud Citizen and Badge of Silver will both get fee raises, but the farm’s other sires will remain at their 2011 levels. Proud Citizen, sire of 2012 Kentucky Oaks winner Believe You Can and Grade 2 winners Mark Valeski and Vamo a Galupiar, goes from $10,000 to $15,000 for 2013. Badge of Silver – whose 2012 runners include multiple graded winner Silver Max, graded winner Silver Medallion, and Super Derby runner-up Fly Lexis Fly – rises from $6,000 to $7,500.
Stonestreet Stables has retired its homebred Maclean's Music because of complications from the removal of a fractured split bone, Stonestreet said Tuesday.
A 4-year-old Distorted Humor colt, Maclean's Music raced only once, winning his debut by 7 1/4 lengths in March 2011 at Santa Anita. That performance earned him a Beyer Speed Figure of 114, the highest ever for a debut winner.
Maclean's Music will stand at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky., for $6,500. He is out of the Grade 2 winner Forest Music, by Unbridled's Song and is her first stakes-winner.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jim Tafel, owner and breeder of 2007 Kentucky Derby winner and 2006 champion juvenile Street Sense and 1998 champion 3-year-old filly Banshee Breeze, will disperse his breeding stock at the Nov. 6-16 Keeneland November sale in Lexington.
Tafel will retain all of his yearlings and current foals to race, according to a release from Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, one of two consignors who will handle the November dispersal. The other consignor is Darby Dan Farm, also in Lexington.
A pair of $252,000 colts led selling Monday as the four-day Tattersalls October Book 2 yearling auction began in Newmarket, England, with declines across the board.
Gross fell 20 percent, due partly to a smaller catalog which offered 235 yearlings as compared to 248 last year. The opening session sold 183 horses for about $11,702,040, for an average price of about $63,946. Compared year-to-year in the local auction currency of guineas, the average price was down by 8 percent. The median price, about $50,400, was 3 percent lower this year.
Creative Cause, a millionaire who won three stakes in California and was third in the Preakness Stakes in May, has been retired to stud at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.
Campaigned by Heinz Steinmann, Creative Cause was sent to Kentucky last week, trainer Mike Harrington said.
He will stand for $15,000 in 2013, according to Bret Jones, who directs bloodstock services at Airdrie.
“He’s a Grade 1 millionaire by a Grade 1 millionaire out of a Grade 1 millionaire,” Jones said on Monday. “That’s a tough formula to beat.”
The $23,026 average price at Tuesday’s Barretts October yearling sale in Pomona, Calif., was the highest for the annual sale since 2006.
Compared with 2011, key figures rose remarkably. The average price increased 36 percent, from $16,881, and gross receipts rose 54 percent, to $4,006,600.
The higher data left the company hoping that the sale can continue on an upward trend in coming seasons, with an emphasis on quality.
Photographer Sarah K. Andrew and designer Gina Kessling of Hoofprints.com have collaborated for a second year to produce the “Horses and Hope: Faces of Rescue” calendar, sales of which will benefit the equine advocacy group One Horse At A Time. One Horse At A Time awards grants to horse rescues and needy individuals in the horse business. Last year’s calendar raised more than $40,000 for the Nicholasville, Ky.-based 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
