Kaleem Shah gave the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s select 2-year-old market a lift Wednesday morning, bidding $925,0000 for a Flatter colt. The colt, Hip No. 265, had the under-tack show’s co-fastest quarter-mile time, 20.6 seconds, last week.
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert signed the ticket for Shah.
The price was the two-day auction’s highest and came on a day of moderate declines in median and a small decline in average.
Kaleem Shah gave the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s select 2-year-old market a lift Wednesday morning, bidding $925,0000 for a Flatter colt. The colt, Hip No. 265, had the under-tack show’s fastest quarter-mile time last week, 20.60 seconds.
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert signed the ticket for Shah.
Three juveniles sped an eighth-mile in 9.8 seconds Saturday at the second and final under-tack preview for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s March select sale, which will take place March Tuesday and Wednesday in Ocala, Fla.
Saturday’s under-tack show featured Hip Nos. 245-490.
The late Edward P. Evans’s bloodstock, numbering about 250 horses, will be dispersed this year at Keeneland’s September yearling and November breeding stock sales, Keeneland announced late Friday afternoon.
This will be a complete dispersal with the exception of Quality Road, who will continue to stand at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky. Quality Road entered stud this year.
Lane’s End will be the consigning agent for the dispersal at both auctions.
One colt shaded 10 seconds Friday as the fastest eighth-mile worker at the first Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company under-tack preview. The two public breeze shows preview next week’s OBS March select juvenile sale. They had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday but were delayed by one day because of bad weather.
The first under-tack session on Friday saw Hip No. 137, a Scat Daddy-Madagascat colt, powered through an eighth in 9.80 seconds as the only juvenile to breeze the distance in under 10 seconds.
Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company general manager Tom Ventura is echoing other 2-year-old sales officials’ upbeat predictions as his company prepares for the year’s largest select juvenile sale on March 15-16 in Ocala, Fla.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Keith Card, the California Thoroughbred breeder who died on Tuesday in Murrieta, Calif., at the age of 83, found himself briefly at the center of the racing world in the fall of 2009.
California Flag, a gelding he bred at Hi Card Ranch in Murrietta with his wife, Barbara, had just given Card the greatest win of his career in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita, and the moment left the owner-breeder delightfully stunned.
Raymond "Pat" Buse, an Ohio Thoroughbred owner and former director of Fasig-Tipton, died March 3 in Cincinnati, according to Cincinnati.com. He was 85.
Buse was part owner of the Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati Bengals in the late 1960s and operated his family's R. L. Buse whiskey brokerage in Ohio and Old Boone Distillery in Kentucky. He got involved in the Thoroughbred business reluctantly, following the interests of his late wife, Marjorie, and his children, who rode hunter-jumpers.
The woman who owns Anthony’s Cross is a lot of things. She’s a fashion designer, a mother, and a self-described positive thinker. She’s also a de Kwiatkowski, the daughter of one of Thoroughbred racing’s most colorful and successful owners, the late Henryk de Kwiatkowski, and his first wife, the late Minerva Stud Farm owner Lynne de Kwiatkowski Russo. Arianne de Kwiatkowski, 44, said she honors her family history in the sport, but she is also determined to make her own way in the sport with A D K Racing.
