Invisible Ink, runner-up in the 2001 Kentucky Derby after nearly losing his life at 2, will relocate to Pennsylvania’s Pin Oak Lane Farm.
The 12-year-old previously stood in Ocala, Fla., at Rising Hill Farm. His 2011 stud fee at Pin Oak Lane in New Freedom, Pa., will be the same as his 2010 fee, $1,500, but breeders sending two or more mares to him will receive a $500 discount on the 2011 fee.
The Barretts auction house in Pomona, Calif., has cataloged 392 horses for its Jan. 24 winter mixed sale in the Hinds Pavilion at Fairplex Park. The auction also features bloodstock from the dispersals of Applebite Farm, LaJolla Thoroughbred Stables, and the Walter Family Trust. Applebite also will be acting as agent on behalf of Zayat Stables, whose horses for sale include the Grade 1-placed sire E Z Warrior. Catalogs are available at www.barretts.com.
The Kentucky-based Vinery’s Australian division has bought what it called “a major share” in Pluck, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.
The deal virtually guarantees that Pluck eventually will enter stud in Australia – where his sire, More Than Ready – already is a leading stallion -- at the end of his racing career.
Fasig-Tipton’s Texas December mixed sale on Monday ended with sharply mixed results, as gross receipts and the average price increased by double digits but median fell.
The one-day auction at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, grossed $307,900 for 76 horses, a 26-percent increase over last year’s $245,300 for 74 horses. The average jumped 22 percent, from last year’s $3,315 to $4,051. But the median price checked in at $1,900, a figure that was 24 percent lower than last year’s $2,500. The buy-back rate was 34 percent, up from 25 percent in 2009.
Catalogs for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed auction are online at www.obssales.com. The Jan. 18-19 sale will take place in Ocala, Fla., and has 522 horses in its catalog, including 238 yearlings. The auction opens Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. with a consignor-preferred session featuring Hip Nos. 1-190. Day two, also at 11 a.m., is an open session.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – King’s Bishop Stakes winner Discreetly Mine, recently retired from racing because of a stifle injury, will start his stud career at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky.
Lane’s End announced Monday that Discreetly Mine will stand as the property of a syndicate with a $15,000 fee in 2011.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Respect can arrive slowly for the winner of the California Cup Juvenile each fall.
With the top runners of the division racing in graded stakes at that time of the year, the California Cup Juvenile winner is sometimes considered a second-rate performer, until proven otherwise.
Slammer Time will be out to show he is more than just the winner of a statebred stakes in coming weeks.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Grade 1 winners Wickedly Perfect, Negligee, and Ave are among the entries to the Jan. 10-14 Keeneland January mixed sale here.
Two are winners of the Alcibiades at Keeneland: Wickedly Perfect this year and Negligee in 2009.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Walmac Farm here will offer a $2,000 stud fee reduction for foals sired by the farm’s Kentucky stallions but born out of state in 2012.
The deal applies to four of the farm’s five Kentucky stallions: Bandini, Hat Trick, Ready’s Image, and Songandaprayer.
Successful Appeal, the most expensive of Walmac’s Kentucky stallions with a $15,000 advertised fee, was not included in the offer Walmac e-mailed to its stallion clients on Wednesday.
