Sun, 11/27/2011 - 09:30

CTHS sale: Leonnatus Anteas weanling brings $32,000

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A $32,000 weanling colt by Canadian champion 2-year-old Leonnatus Anteas headed the 2011 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s winter mixed sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.

Can. Co. Bloodstock purchased the sale topper, who is out of Canadian champion turf female Chopinina. The colt was consigned by Hill ‘N’ Dale Sales Agency, as agent, which also sold the leading broodmare, Galipette, who brought $20,000 from John Carey. The 7-year-old is pregnant to Old Forester.

Fri, 11/25/2011 - 13:17

Trappe Shot retired to Claiborne

The multiple stakes winner Trappe Shot has been retired from racing and will stand stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., it was announced Friday.

Mon, 11/21/2011 - 16:09

Schumer Bloodstock in deals with Saudis

Chad Schumer’s Schumer Bloodstock in Louisville, Ky., has bought three stallions and one stallion prospect for export to a variety of stud farms in Saudi Arabia.

The deal will send Shaniko from Moon Lake Farm in Louisiana, Sabre d’Argent from Bridlewood Farm in Florida, and Dance to Destiny from Sam-Son Farms in Canada. It also will export Darley Stud’s 5-year-old A. P. Indy horse Tranquil Manner, third in Quality Road’s Woodward last year.

Mon, 11/21/2011 - 14:43

Drosselmeyer stallion deal made for quick return on investment

Barbara D. Livingston
Lexington bloodstock adviser Tom Clark and New York breeder John Hicks were in a win-win situation with Drosselmeyer (above) before the Breeders' Cup.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The stallion deal that sent Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Drosselmeyer to WinStar Farm last week also resulted in a quick return for investors who bought most of the colt’s breeding rights 12 days before the Classic.

Mon, 11/21/2011 - 11:44

Old Friends gets $50,000 grant

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Old Friends, the equine retirement facility based in Georgetown, Ky., has received a $50,000 grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The funds will be put toward building four new paddocks at the Old Friends Kentucky facility, Dream Chase Farm. That will allow the 501(c)(3) organization to help more retired Thoroughbreds, said Old Friends president and founder Michael Blowen.

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 16:18

Breeders' Cup Classic winner Drosselmeyer to stand at WinStar Farm in Kentucky rather than New York

Tom Keyser
WinStar Farm considered racing Drosselmeyer as a 5 year old in 2012 but ultimately decided to retire him.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – WinStar Farm has worked out a new plan for Drosselmeyer, the 2010 Belmont Stakes winner and 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, who has been retired and will now stand at WinStar near Versailles, Ky., rather than at Keane Farm in New York as originally planned.

Drosselmeyer, 4, will stand in 2012 for $17,500. His sire, Distorted Humor, also is a stallion at WinStar, which is owned by Ken Troutt. Distorted Humor will stand for $100,000 in 2012, and his book will be limited to 100 mares.

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 15:16

Aging sire Unusual Heat will not be overbooked

Unusual Heat, California’s leading sire by progeny earnings since 2008, will stand for $20,000 at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., to a book of approximately 60 mares in 2012, a stud fee unchanged from 2011.

The fee was announced earlier this week. Madeline Auerbach, part of the stallion’s ownership group, said on Thursday that the stallion’s book will be limited again this year.

“I hope we’ll be close to last year when we had 60,” Auerbach said. “Between 50 and 60 mares are good.”

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 14:38

Adena, Wintergreen, Millennium holding line on fees

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Adena Springs, Wintergeen Stallion Station, and Millennium Farms are keeping their 2012 fees for all but one stallion – Borrego, standing at Wintergreen – at the same levels they had in 2011.

Wintergreen, in Midway, Ky., will stand Blind Luck’s sire, Pollard’s Vision, for $12,500 again this year but will trim Borrego’s fee from $10,000 to $5,000 when the 2012 breeding season opens in February. The other Wintergreen stallions will keep their 2011 fees going into the 2012 season. They are Elite Squadron, $5,000; Five Star Day, $5,000; and Neko Bay, $7,500.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 18:49

Etc. . . .Nov. 17

Canadian Frontier, sire of Grade 1 winners Hilda's Passion and No Such Word, will relocate in 2012 from Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., to Brett Brinkman's LeMesa Stallions in Carencro, La. Canadian Frontier, a 12-year-old Gone West horse out of multiple graded winner Borodislew, by Seattle Slew, will have a fee of $3,500 on stands-and-nurses terms or $3,000 on Nov. 1 payment with live foal guarantee. . . . The filing date to avoid late-registration fees for recording foals and 2-year-olds with the Jockey Club is Dec.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 18:08

Fasig-Tipton has 131 for Texas December sale

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 131 horses for its Texas December mixed sale, set for Dec. 12 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tex.

"Over one-third of our 80-plus mares are black-type producers, with several in foal to Valid Expectations, our perennially leading sire in these parts," said Tim Boyce, Fasig-Tipton's southwest region sales director.

The auction starts at noon.