Three Thoroughbred retirement programs have joined forces to permanently retire a pair of former claiming horses: a son of Ferdinand, the 1986 Kentucky Derby winner who died in a Japanese slaughterhouse, and a runner who started 125 times.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has cataloged 530 horses to its Jan. 17-18 winter mixed sale in Ocala, Fla. Hip Nos. 1-110 will sell Jan. 17 in a consignor-preferred session, followed by 148 horses in a new horses of racing age session the same day. An open session will take place Jan. 18. Catalogs are available online at www.obssales.com.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Tiznow is never far from owner-breeder Pamela Ziebarth’s thoughts, or the bloodlines of her horses.
“There are very few that aren’t related,” she said of her racing and breeding stock.
Ziebarth has a unique perspective of the California-bred Tiznow as a racehorse from a decade ago and as a successful stallion in Kentucky now. Tiznow is the only horse to win two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, in 2000 and 2001, doing so for Ziebarth’s late mother, Cecilia Straub-Reubens.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − Indian Charlie’s death Thursday at age 16 cost Airdrie Stud its banner stallion, but farm owner Brereton C. Jones said the Midway, Ky., operation hopes to build on his legacy by perhaps standing one of his sons. In the meantime, Indian Charlie’s connections have a lot of good memories of his racing career and stud career, as his fee rose from $10,000 to $75,000 since he was relocated to Airdrie in 2003.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Indian Charlie, sire of four North American champions includingIndian Blessing and Uncle Mo, died Thursday morning at age 16.
An In Excess horse who went from California Grade 1 winner to fashionable Kentucky sire, Indian Charlie had hemangiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, and was euthanized at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, according to a statement from Brereton C. Jones’s Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., where Indian Charlie stood. He was to have a $75,000 fee (stands and nurses) in 2012.
Bank Heist, a Maria's Mon half-brother to 2007 sprint champion Midnight Lute and multiple-graded-placed Captain Cherokee, has retired from the track and will enter stud at Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown, N.Y.
Bank Heist will stand for $2,500, but the farm will waive the fee for black-type mares, mares with black type under the first dam, and winners of $50,000 or more or producers of a runner with $50,000 or more in earnings. Four-year-old Bank Heist won 1 of 6 starts and earned $58,000.
Part of Richard Simon’s former Sez Who Thoroughbreds property in Ocala, Fla., has been sold to an Ocala realtor.
Real estate agent William Bello paid $2 million for 87-acre Foxtrotter Ranch in November, according to the Ocala Star-Banner, and intends to resell it. Bello told the paper that he already is negotiating with an unidentified potential buyer in Canada who probably would use the farm as a second home. In 2009, the farm’s value was assessed at $5 million.
Ruby Be Mine, a 9-year-old stakes-producing mare by Rubiano, brought a bid of $35,000 to top the Fasig-Tipton Texas mixed sale Monday at Lone Star Park near Dallas. The average price at the one-day auction featuring breeding stock was $4,553, up 12 percent from the corresponding sale in 2010.
Moon Lake Equine Center purchased Ruby Be Mine from agent 4M Ranch. The stakes-placed mare, believed to be in foal to the Forest Wildcat stallion Chatain, has produced the multiple stakes-winning filly Ruby's Big Band, an earner of more than $200,000.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Last year’s Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, Haynesfield, will start his stud career at Elizabeth and Brereton Jones’s Airdrie Stud in 2012. He retired earlier this month.
A 5-year-old Speightstown horse, Haynesfield will stand for $10,000 in his initial year at the Midway, Ky., farm. He will stand under a joint venture between Airdrie and WinStar Farm.
