The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, which faced allegations of neglect earlier this year, says it is now up to date in its payment to satellite farms around the nation that care for retired Thoroughbreds under the foundation’s auspices, according to an e-mail sent out by a public relations representative for the organization.
Canada’s champion 3-year-old filly of 2009, Milwaukee Appeal, has a new home in Kentucky.
Gary and Mary West have purchasedMilwaukee Appeal, a 5-year-old Milwaukee Brew mare, privately, and she will retire to their broodmare band at Dell Ridge Farm in Lexington, according to Horse-Canada.com. C.E.C. Farms bred and raced Ontario-bred Milwaukee Appeal, who is out of the Open Forum winner Appealing Forum.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Lane’s End and Dixiana Farms have bought a majority interest in Carter Handicap winner Morning Line from Thoroughbred Legends Racing Stable. A 4-year-old Tiznow colt, Morning Line will stand at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., upon his retirement.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Linda Witman, whose body was found Wednesday morning by landscaping workers at Calumet Farm here, committed suicide, the Fayette County coroner’s office reported Friday afternoon.
Witman, 48, was married to Bill Witman, who manages the famed Thoroughbred farm for the late Henryk de Kwiatkowski’s family trust. Linda Witman previously worked for Will Farish’s Lane’s End Farm in its bloodstock and sales departments.
Two years ago this summer, Dancing in Silks was returning from a layoff, in the midst of a losing streak, and in search of his first stakes win.
Sunday, when the 6-year-old gelding starts in the $77,000 Robert Kerlan Memorial Handicap on turf at Hollywood Park, Dancing in Silks is once again returning from a brief layoff and stuck in a losing streak and has even more to prove.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − Ask American auction officials what they’re predicting for the upcoming select yearling sale season, and the first answer you’ll get is this: smaller catalogs. The Jockey Club estimates the North American registered foal crop fell from about 31,750 in 2009 to 27,800 in 2010, a sharp 12 percent decline and its lowest level since the mid-1970s. Dwindling Thoroughbred crop sizes are bad news for racetracks combatting small fields, but they’ll probably be a plus for the 2011 yearling market.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 160 yearlings to its 2011 Saratoga select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in August.
The 2011 catalog is down significantly from the 202 originally cataloged for last year’s auction; 164 eventually went through the ring in 2010, with 118 selling for $32,515,000, a $275,551 average, and a $240,000 median.
The 2011 auction will take place in Fasig-Tipton’s Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion on Aug. 8-9, with sessions starting each night at 7 p.m. Eighty horses are scheduled to sell each night.
