Breeders’ Cup Mile contender and multiple Grade 1 winner Court Vision will retire after the Nov. 5 race and will enter stud at Michael Byrne’s Park Stud in Canada, as his owner, Spendthrift Farm ,looks to expand its brand northward.
Spendthrift will announced Court Vision’s stud fee later.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Big prices just kept coming Wednesday as the strong Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling market rolled into its final session.
The Lexington, Ky., sale posted big returns at its first two sessions, and, at 3:45 p.m., Wednesday’s sale-leader had pushed the ceiling up again. The session- and sale-leader at that hour was a $270,000 Smart Strike colt out of the Green Desert mare Yaqeen, a stakes-winning half-sister to Grade 1 winner Grand Courturier. Mark Casse, agent, signed for the bay colt, the second foal for his British-bred dam.
John Turner’s Moon Lake Farm in Elm Grove, La., will close its public operations, end its two-year partnership with Millennium Farms, and become a private farm, Turner announced Wednesday.
“I have decided that it’s time to stop being a public stallion and boarding operation and just focus on my own horses,” Turner said when he announced the change. “I’ll keep my mares at the farm and get out of the stallion business.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky fall yearling sale built on its massive opening-day gains Tuesday, posting more huge increases. Gross receipts improved 74 percent, the average price gained 68 percent, and median more than doubled for a second consecutive day.
James Herbener, agent, sold the session-topper, a $260,000 Arch filly, to bloodstock agent Steve Young. The bay filly is out of the Royal Academy mare Royal Sanction and is a half-sister to German stakes-winner Ronja.
Multiple graded winner Etched, a 6-year-old son of Forestry and Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Unbridled Elaine, will enter stud at Maryland's Bonita Farm in 2012. A Darley homebred, he won the Grade 3 Nashua in 2007, the Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup in 2009, and the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup in 2010 and retires with $587,586 in purses from 7 wins in 11 starts. He will stand for $3,500. . . .
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A day after posting powerful gains in its opening session, Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky fall yearling sale continued to look strong Tuesday with a $260,000 Arch filly the highest price at 3:45 p.m.
James Herbener, agent, sold the session-leading filly to bloodstock agent Steve Young. The bay filly is out of the Royal Academy mare Royal Sanction and is a half-sister to German stakes-winner Ronja.
The Arch filly was the most expensive sold so far at the three-day sale and one of three to sell for $200,000 or more.
The market peaked late Monday at the Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale in Newmarket, England, where French stakes winner Red Gulch was the opening-day session-topper at about $420,000.
The 4-year-old Kyllachy gelding was among the last horses to sell Monday night and generated the session’s highest price on a bid from agent Anthony Stroud. Stroud did not name his client but indicated the gelding was headed for the Dubai Carnival.