LEXINGTON, Ky.– The Fasig-Tipton July select yearling sale in Kentucky has raised confidence in the coming select yearling auction season, even as buyers’ selectivity has created a hot-or-cold market.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton's bellwether July select yearling sale justified pre-sale optimism Tuesday when it began the select yearling sale season with a higher sale-topping price and gains in gross receipts and average price, despite a predictably selective buying public.The sale-topper at Tuesday's one-day sale in Lexington was a $375,000 Malibu Moon colt that trainer Ken McPeek signed for on behalf of Magic City Thoroughbred Partners. CandyLand Farm consigned the dark bay colt, who broke last year's market ceiling of $310,000.
Japan’s Big Red Farm paid $10 million for the breeding rights to Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another, the colt’s owner Paul Reddam has confirmed.
Reddam told Daily Racing Form that Shigeyuki Okada’s Big Red Farm topped another Japanese farm’s $9 million offer. Both bids were well above what American stud farms had offered for the 3-year-old Flower Alley colt.
The late Carl Lizza’s Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y., closed this week, but its longtime managers have relocated the horses and will continue operating a Thoroughbred breeding business as Highcliff at Mill Creek Farm.
Highcliff’s general manager and resident veterinarian, Lynwood “Doc” O’Cain, and his wife, Suzie, who handled business management, promotions, and stallion marketing for Highcliff, relocated 65 horses from the Delanson property to Anne Morgan and Tom Little’s Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y., five miles from Saratoga Race Course.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Darley has pensioned 1994 Horse of the Year and Hall of Famer Holy Bull, sire of 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo and 2000 juvenile champion Macho Uno, from stud duty.
Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s organization announced the retirement early Sunday morning.
The Great Above horse is 21 and was retired due to the infirmities of old age and waning fertility, Darley’s Charlie Boden said. Holy Bull stood at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, where he bred 17 mares in 2012. Eleven, so far, are reported in foal.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Fasig-Tipton’s July yearling sale here on Tuesday launches the select auction season with a larger catalog and high hopes that 2011’s market gains will continue, or even improve, in 2012.
Fasig-Tipton’s 2012 July catalog began with 338 horses, an 11.5-percent increase over last year’s initial book of 303. Scratches by July 6 had reduced the total to 307, still up from the 261 yearlings that ultimately went through the ring at Newtown Paddocks last year.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Fasig-Tipton has added a Saratoga fall mixed and racing-age sale to its calendar to capitalize on what it called a “fast-expanding Thoroughbred population in New York,” the Lexington-headquartered auction house announced Monday.
The one-day sale will take place Tuesday, Oct. 9., at Fasig-Tipton’s Finney pavilion in Saratoga, across from the racecourse.
Entries for the auction will close Aug. 3.
New Vocations, a group dedicated to the post-racing lives of horses, will host its ninth annual charity horse show, including 15 Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program classes, July 7-8 in Delaware, Ohio.
The hunter and dressage show offers both Thoroughbred and open classes and will take place at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. The deadline for dressage entries has passed, but the show is still taking entries for the hunter show. Early discounted entries are due July 1, and entries also will be taken (but with no discount) at the show.
Ontario stallion Philanthropist, sire of champion Pender Harbour from his first crop of foals, has been sold to Drakenstein Stud in Cape Town, South Africa. The 11-year-old son of Kris S. had been standing at Gardiner Farms in Caledon East, Ontario, as property of a partnership since he stood his first season in 2007.