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Rain pelted Fasig-Tipton’s auction grounds Tuesday night, but from where Thoroughbred breeder Nancy Dillman and her husband Carl stood, things looked entirely sunny.
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Tue, 08/09/2011 - 23:23
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Spending by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and yearlings by third-crop sire Bernardini dominated the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale on Tuesday night, propelling the two-day sale’s gross, average, and median to increases over last year’s comparable figures.
Tue, 08/09/2011 - 15:49
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It was a poignant moment for Bill Casner. On Monday night, he stood just outside the bright lights that glistened off a bay colt named Superfection. Casner remembered the colt as a foal, indeed as a mating plan, and Superfection’s pedigree inspired fond Kentucky Derby memories.
All major financial indices for the first session of the bellwether Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale rose significantly following a quick night of selling on Monday, relieving fears that had been brought on by Monday’s precipitous drop in the stock market. Sheikh Mohammed helps lift Monday session »
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – All major financial indices for the first session of the bellwether Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale rose significantly following a quick night of selling on Monday, relieving fears that had been brought on by Monday’s precipitous drop in the stock market.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Saturday’s Whitney result was hardly official before Spendthrift Farm in Lexington announced it has acquired a breeding interest in the winner, Tizway, who will retire to stud at the end of the season.
B. Wayne Hughes owns Spendthrift Farm, a historic Lexington nursery and stallion station that also announced earlier this week it had purchased Grade 1 winner Dublin to stand at Keane Stud in New York in 2012.
Dublin, recently retired winner of the 2009 Hopeful Stakes, will enter stud next year in New York.
B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm has purchased Dublin, a 4-year-old Afleet Alex colt, and will stand him at Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y. The colt will be available for breeders to inspect on Aug. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Springs, N. Y., sales grounds. Spendthrift will set his fee later.