The New York Thoroughbred Breeders board of directors met Jan. 19 and unanimously re-elected Barry Ostrager to another two-year term as board president.
The board’s vice-president Tom Gallo III and secretary/treasurer Vivien Malloy will serve the second of two-year terms in those positions in 2012.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − Age has not mellowed Dynaformer. He turned 27 on Jan. 1 and is still healthy and as cantankerous as ever, stallion manager Sandy Hatfield reports. He’s also up-to-date with social media: to follow tweets about him, search for #hanniballecterofhorses.
“He’s a tough horse, there’s no doubt about it, and he’s very much an opportunist,” said Hatfield, who has been with Dynaformer for almost 13 years. “He’ll let you know when he’s had enough of something, and you’d better change what you’re doing. He kind of runs the show.”
The reformatted January mixed sale at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company in Ocala, Fla., ended Wednesday evening after strong across-the-board gains at its open session. Private sales of horses who initially failed to reach their reserves also boosted results from the Tuesday sessions.
A $90,000 yearling Congrats colt led selling Wednesday afternoon at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed auction. Wednesday’s session was for open yearlings and was the last of two sale days.
Bortolazzo Stable picked up the session-leading yearling, an April 24 foal out of the Royal Academy mare Summer School. The chestnut colt hails from the family of graded winner Mud Route and stakes-winner Nursery Rhyme. He is a half-brother to the winner Astute.
Stroud’s Lane Farm sold the colt.
Second-crop sire Hard Spun added some punch to the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s January winter mixed sale, which opened Tuesday with a session that combined 110 consignor-preferred horses and a 153-horse racing-age section.
The consignor-preferred session sold 64 horses for $1,159,000, resulting in an average price of $18,109 and a $15,000 median. The racing-age section sold 71 horses for an aggregate $997,200, for a $14,045 average and $6,500 median.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Richland Hills Farm stallion Purim, a Grade 1 winner by Dynaformer, was euthanized Saturday after undergoing colic surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, farm president Nathan Fox confirmed Monday.
The 10-year-old stallion had been about to stand the 2012 breeding season for a $7,500 fee, the Midway farm’s highest. Purim’s first runners were 2-year-olds last year, and that first crop turned up the winners Two Months Rent, Gold Megillah, Leah Jet, Do Something, Purim Katan, and Dynabird.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Thirtyfirststreet spent almost as much time on the road in 2011 as he did racing in his home state of California. Of his nine races, four were outside the state, including a win in the Lone Star Derby in Texas last May.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland’s January horses of all ages sale started and ended with a bang as all four sessions rang up hefty gains, buybacks fell, and the number of horses selling for $200,000 or more more than doubled, from 16 last year to 37 in 2012.
