Audrey and Richard Haisfield’s largest single creditor has asked a Florida bankruptcy court to put the Stonewall Farm founders into involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to more than $7 million in alleged unpaid debts.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – At 74, California breeder Bud Johnston may be on the verge of a longtime goal, winning the Hollywood Gold Cup.
On July 9, the Gold Cup will be run for the 72nd time at Hollywood Park, and Johnston may have a candidate in Acclamation, the multiple stakes-winning California-bred. From a national perspective, the Gold Cup may be one of several Grade 1 races on a crowded stakes schedule for older horses, but for Johnston, a California native, it is high on his list of trophies he has coveted.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − If anyone knows about going a distance on the track, it’s Rob Whiteley and Pam Robinson. Both are athletes themselves: In her first career, Robinson directed a graduate-level sports medicine program, and Whiteley, who lettered in seven collegiate sports, was still competing successfully in distance races in his 60’s. So even though Whiteley’s Liberation Farm in Califon, N.
Raymond LeCesse, a Rochester, N.Y., horse owner whose homebred Fio Rito upset the 1981 Whitney Stakes, died June 5 at age 88.
Fio Rito became the first New York-bred Grade 1 winner when he held off Paul Mellon’s Winter’s Tale by a neck to take the Whitney at 10-1. The co-founder of LeCesse Construction, LaCesse also owned Rochester’s North Park Lanes bowling alley, started the Cystic Fibrosis Bowlathon, and was a member of the Rochester Bowling Association Hall of Fame.
Devil Eleven Farm, the foreclosed Florida Thoroughbred farm once owned by former Duke University and Sacramento Kings basketball player Bobby Hurley, has been sold.
The 140-acre property that Hurley and his wife, Leslie, bought for $3 million in 2006 brought just under $1.3 million on May 26. According to the Ocala Star-Banner, the buyer is Remeta Sky LLC, whose manager is Kansas veterinarian Dr. Karen Young.
Grade 2 winner Stream of Gold, runner-up in the 2007 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic and a course-record-setter at Gulfstream Park, has retired from racing at age 10.
A bay Rainbow Quest gelding, Stream of Gold earned $738,293 in his 33-race career. He will now head for Watchtower Farm, a New Hampshire retirement facility, according to Gail Hirt, who led a fund-raising effort on Alex Brown Racing and Facebook to buy Stream of Gold privately from owner Annette Ellis.
The catalog for the Tattersalls July auction in Newmarket, England, numbers 753 horses and is available online now at www.tattersalls.com.
Most of the catalog consists of broodmares and fillies and horses in training. The sale is set for July 6-8.
