LEXINGTON, Ky. - A pair of $550,000 Smart Strike yearlings were the peak of the market Thursday at during a lively fifth session at Keeneland's September yearling sale.
The session ended Thursday evening with 197 yearlings grossing $23,234,000. The average price for the session was $117,939, and the median was $100,000. Session buy-backs were 30 percent.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Thoroughbred shareholders Ashley Andrews and Robert Raphaelson have provided details of an offer, including details of buyer's representative Jerry Jamgotchian's fee, to purchase a share in Lemon Drop Kid and Kingmambo to the syndicates that stand those stallions at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Domestic buyers continued to dominate the upper market Thursday at the Keeneland September yearling sale’s fifth session, where a $550,000 Smart Strike colt that Ahmed Zayat bought was leading the sale prices at 3 p.m. Eastern.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Woodford County, Ky., Circuit Court judge has granted Lane’s End Stallions a temporary restraining order to prevent Ashley Andrews, a shareholder in classic winner and sire Lemon Drop Kid, and Robert Raphaelson, Andrews’s partner in a share of Kingmambo, from selling those shares to a group represented by California-based owner and breeder Jerry Jamgotchian.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Stonewall Farm and its single largest creditor, the Harleysville National Bank successor Stone Wall Acquisition, have worked out an agreement that appears likely to allow Stonewall to stand Value Plus and four other stallions at its Ocala, Fla., property.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Jockey Club has received live foal reports from North American breeders of 27,233 foals so far this year, a 14.2 percent decline compared with the number of live foal reports received by this time last year, the organization said on Thursday.
The number of live-foal reports dovetails with a foal-crop estimate released earlier this year by the Jockey Club. The estimate was for a 2010 foal crop of 30,000. Typically, by early September, the Jockey Club has received 90 percent of the live-foal reports it will receive for the entire crop.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A $700,000 Malibu Moon filly led selling Wednesday at the two-week Keeneland September yearling sale's fourth session on an afternoon that saw much upper-market activity from domestic shoppers.
Craig Lavin Bernick of Glen Hill Farm in Ocala, Fla., bought the session-topping daughter of Grade 3-placed Erhu from the Elm Tree Farm agency.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Craig Lavin Bernick heralded a new era at Glen Hill Farm Wednesday when he bought a $700,000 Malibu Moon filly to lead the Keeneland September yearling sale’s fourth session in late afternoon.
Bernick, 31, is the grandson of the Ocala farm’s founder, 90-year-old Leonard Lavin. The elder Lavin, also founder of the Alberto-Culver company, announced two years ago that he was handing the reins to Bernick.
Glen Hill Farm president Craig Lavin Bernick raised the bar Wednesday at day four of Keeneland's two-week September yearling sale.
Bernick paid $700,000 for Hip No. 658, a bay Malibu Moon filly out of Grade 3-placed Erhu, by Tactical Cat, giving the session a new leader by price.
Mr. and Mrs. Jody Huckabay's Elm Tree Farm agency consigned the filly.