LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bloodstock agent John Moynihan, representing Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables, paid $625,000 Monday evening to buy the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale’s highest-priced horse, an Indian Charlie colt, at an auction that saw relatively shallow declines across the board.
Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables also bought last year’s April sale-topper, the Bernardini colt Wilburn, for $625,000; he’s now a winner.
Bloodstock agent Vin Cox , who has served as Keeneland’s Australasian representative, has been named managing director at the Magic Millions auction house on Australia’s Gold Coast. Cox got his start working for Magic Millions rival William Inglis & Son but has operated his own bloodstock agency since 2002. He had been a Keeneland representative since 2003.
Partner’s Hero , a 17-year-old sire of 18 stakes winners, has been moved to Castle Rock Farm in Unionville, Pa., from Northview Stallion Station in the same state, according to Castle Rock’s owners. Partner’s Hero, a half brother to champion sprinter Safely Kept, had stood at Castle Rock in 2008 following a stint at Northview’s Maryland stallion farm.
Fasig-Tipton will expand its Midlantic 2-year-old sale at Timonium in Maryland from one to two days this year, and the auction will catalog about 600 entries, the Kentucky-based auction house announced Friday.
The 2011 sale will take place May 23-24 at Timonium at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Two under-tack sessions will precede the auction on May 18-19, starting each day at 9:30 a.m.
Catalogs will be available in Fasig-Tipton offices around April 22 and also will be online at the Fasig-Tipton website, www.fasigtipton.com.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – So far, 2011’s select juvenile sales have been a mixed bag in terms of their financial results, but there has been just enough positive news to make sales executives believe the market has leveled off after deep losses since the 2008 collapse.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Last year, an allowance race or optional claimer sufficed when owner-trainer Bill Spawr sought races for Amazombie, his California-bred sprinter. That’s no longer good enough.
Thursday morning, in his stable office on the Santa Anita backstretch, Spawr, jockey Mike Smith and Smith’s agent, Brad Pegram, discussed which races would best suit Amazombie in the next few months. They needed stakes races throughout the nation to reach the appropriate conclusions.
“This horse is a tough horse,” Spawr said. “He’ll run on anything.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lane's End Farm has pensioned its flagship stallion and 1992 Horse of the Year, A.P. Indy, because of infertility after the horse, a 22-year-old son of Seattle Slew, failed to impregnate any of his 25 mares so far in 2011, according to the farm.
The farm's announcement said A.P. Indy suffers from age-related testicular degeneration disease.
"We've been, needless to say, worried about him, but health-wise he's great," Will Farish, owner of Lane's End, said.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Two juveniles worked a quarter-mile in 20.8 seconds and four went an eighth in 9.8 seconds as the fastest horses breezing Thursday for Keeneland’s April 2-year-old sale.
Working over Keeneland’s Polytrack, Hip Nos. 119 and 122 put up the bullet quarter-mile times. Niall Brennan, agent, consigned both. Hip No. 119 is a Hat Trick colt out of Chiming Dixie, by Dixieland Band. Hip No. 122 is an Empire Maker colt out of Cosmic Wish, also by Dixieland Band.
The Inglis company’s Australian Easter yearling sale concluded its three-day Session I portion on Thursday with gains in average and median price, aided by the $984,000 sale of a Casino Prince colt – a half-sibling to Group 1 winner Black Caviar – on Wednesday. Trainer John Hawkes, who signed for the colt, later said he would run for Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − In 2006, when they forked over the money for their first broodmare, Mike Lauffer and Bill Cubbedge thought $135,000 looked like a pretty serious investment in a horse. But they have gotten more than they dreamed out of Oatsee. Two years after buying her, they resold her for $1.55 million. Now her son Shackleford, who finished a head behind Dialed In in the Florida Derby, could take them to the Kentucky Derby.
“I attribute most of it to luck,” Lauffer said. “You just have to enjoy it.”
