INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Just once trainer Dean Pederson would like to win a stakes at Hollywood Park without any hint of drama.
Way back in 2001, Pederson, based in Northern California at the time, won the California Sires Stakes with Super Tuesday, who prevailed by a nose after a lengthy photo review. Pederson was back in the winner’s circle at Hollywood Park on May 22 with Logical Single, the upset winner of the Fran’s Valentine Stakes.
Fasig-Tipton's reformatted Midlantic 2-year-old sale ended Tuesday afternoon in Timonium, Md., with a dozen horses fetching $200,000 or more, including the $600,000 sale-topping Indian Charlie colt.
The EQB agency snapped up the bay Indian Charlie colt out of Bally Storm, by Summer Squall. Becky Thomas's Sequel Bloodstock agency sold the colt, who had worked an eighth-mile in the auction preview's second-fastest time of 10.2 seconds.
Offered as Hip No. 492, the colt is from the family of Grade 2 winner Yarrow Brae.
Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic 2-year-old sale continued to show strength at the top Tuesday in its last of two sessions as a $600,000 Indian Charlie colt took over as price leader.
The EQB agency snapped up the bay Indian Charlie colt out of Bally Storm, by Summer Squall. Becky Thomas’s Sequel Bloodstock agency sold the colt, who had worked an eighth-mile in the auction preview’s second-fastest time of 10.2 seconds.
Offered as Hip No. 492, the colt is from the family of Grade 2 winner Yarrow Brae. He was the sale-leader as of 3:30 p.m.
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation will honor Adena Springs owner and racetrack operator Frank Stronach this summer for his efforts to improve horses’ safety and welfare, the organization announced Tuesday.
The retirement foundation will present Stronach with its inaugural Earle I. Mack award on Aug. 7 at its annual Saratoga Gala fund-raiser in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The award is endowed by longtime Thoroughbred owner and philanthropist Earle Mack, the former ambassador to Finland. The award recognizes dedication and compassion in equine retirement.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's May 2-year-old auction opening session got off to a quick start Monday at the Timonium fairgrounds in Maryland, where horses with fast times at the under-tack preview brought some of the opening session's highest prices.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s May 2-year-old auction got off to a quick start Monday at the Timonium fairgrounds in Maryland, where horses with fast times at the under-tack preview brought some of the opening session’s highest prices.
Monarchos, the 2001 Kentucky Derby winner now standing at stud, has resumed breeding duties after recovering from colic surgery.
A 13-year-old Maria’s Mon horse, Monarchos underwent surgery on April 19 to correct a twisted bowel.
“Monarchos’s recovery went well, and we have started booking mares for the remainder of the breeding season,” said Charles Nuckols III of Nuckols Farm, In Midway, Ky., which stands the horse for a $6,000 advertised fee this year.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Street Sense filly worked an eighth-mile in 10 seconds flat Thursday, clocking the fastest time for the distance at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-year-old sale’s under-tack preview in Timonium, Md.
Hip No. 349, a bay daughter of the stakes-placed Forestry mare Stoic, was the only horse at the two-day preview to go the distance in 10 seconds. The Sequel Bloodstock agency consigns the filly, a half-sister to Peruvian champion Ole Pegasus.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Arkansas Derby winner Archarcharch, now recuperating from an injury he sustained during the Kentucky Derby, will enter stud in 2012 at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm, the Lexington farm announced Thursday night.
Spendthrift hasn’t yet set a stud fee for Archarcharch.
Archarcharch underwent surgery on May 8, the day after the Derby, to repair a condylar fracture in his left foreleg, and owners Val and Robert Yagos retired him. In the Derby, the Arch colt stumbled leaving the gate, then was hampered further when his saddle slipped, and finished 15th.
