Meadow Farm, the Virginia birthplace of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, will be auctioned May 22 following the foreclosure of the Virginia State Fair.

The fair bought Meadow Farm, located 25 miles north of Richmond in Doswell, Va., in 2003. Three hundred thirty-one acres remain from the original 2,798-acre property that Christopher Chenery purchased in 1932 to launch his Virginia Thoroughbred breeding interests. The farm will sell at public auction through Motley’s Auction and Realty Group.

The Barretts May 2-year-old auction Monday night saw double-digit gains in gross, average, and median, in keeping with a general upward trend in the major juvenile market this season.

Topped by a $300,000 Master Command colt, the one-night sale in Pomona, Calif., sold 69 juveniles for $2,986,500, resulting in a $43,283 average and $23,000 median. The gross was up 12 percent, average gained 19 percent, and median advanced 15 percent when compared to total figures for last year’s auction, which also offered a single horse of racing age.

Gustave C. Schoenborn Sr., who founded Schoenborn Brothers Farm in New York with his brother Everett, died on May 11 at his home in Coxsackie, N.Y. He was 75.

A Detroit native, Schoenborn opened the farm in Climax, N.Y., after leaving the U. S. Army in 1956, and it became one of the Empire State’s most prominent Thoroughbred breeding operations. Over five decades, Schoenborn Brothers Farm stood such stallions as Talc, Cormorant, Noble Nashua, and Triocala.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Grade 1 winner and millionaire Paddy O’Prado, a first-year stallion at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, will miss the rest of the 2012  breeding season after undergoing surgery Friday for what the farm called “a simple twist of the large colon.”

The 5-year-old El Prado son is expected to make a full recovery, the farm said in a Saturday night release. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Sky Mesa filly proved fastest in the Barretts May sale’s under-tack preview Friday as the day’s only worker to shade 10 seconds in an eighth-mile breeze.

The daughter of stakes winner Bare Dancer, by Cherokee Run, went in 9.8 seconds. She’s out of a full sister to stakes-winner Indian War Dance and is herself a half-sister to Korean winner Indian Cherokee. She will sell as Hip No. 122 in the Wavertree agency’s consignment.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Pluck, the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner by More Than Ready, has retired from racing and will enter stud at Vinery Australia, which also stands his sire during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

Team Valor sold Vinery an interest in the colt in December 2010.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – If he had it to do again, Harvey Clarke probably still would have sold I’ll Have Another. Clarke sells many of the foals his 10-mare band produces, and, back in 2010, there was nothing about the Flower Alley colt that suggested he would go from $11,000 auction yearling to 2012 Kentucky Derby winner.

Prices for race-ready juveniles are expected to rise at Monday’s Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in-training in Pomona, Calif.

The one-day sale, which begins at 6:30 p.m. Pacific, is offering 123 horses, 115 in the catalog and a supplemental list of eight additional 2-year-olds.

“We expect to see an uptick,” Barretts general manager Kim Lloyd said on Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. − Emilie Fojan vividly remembers the night Flower Alley was born. His dam, the 7-year-old mare Princess Olivia, was in labor, but Flower Alley was hopelessly stuck. So Fojan and her partner, George Brunacini, loaded Princess Olivia onto a horse van and sped from their Bona Terra Farm in Georgetown, Ky., to the Hagyard equine hospital in Lexington.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Zenyatta is in foal for the second time, this time on a cover to Tapit, her owners Ann and Jerry Moss announced Tuesday via Twitter and Facebook.