LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale got another seven-figure horse Tuesday when George Bolton jetted in from San Francisco and bid $1 million for a son of Smart Strike at the auction's first open session.
Bolton was one of the partners who raced another son of Smart Strike, two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, and his bloodstock advisor in the purchase, John Moynihan, also represents another of those Curlin partners, Jess Jackson.
Suzie Picou-Oldham has joined Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., as a bloodstock associate to handle stallion nomination sales, farm owner John Phillips announced Tuesday.
Darby Dan recently added Tale of Ekati and All American to its roster.
Picou-Oldham most recently worked in a similar position at Stonewall Stallions in Kentucky, which has relocated its operation to Florida. She also has worked at Spendthrift Farm and Dixiana.
A former jockey, advertising sale executive, as well as a photographer, Picou-Oldham has sold seasons and shares for 15 years.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland’s auctioneers and sales staff exchanged more formal blue blazers for their workaday Keeneland green ones Tuesday, signaling that the auction house’s two select nighttime sessions were over and it was time to move on to daylong sessions offering non-select yearlings.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale's third session - and first non-select day - got off to a buoyant start Tuesday with four horses selling for more than $200,000 and a $500,000 early session leader.
Trainer Bob Baffert, as agent, signed the receipt for the session leader, a $500,000 Stormy Atlantic colt from Gerry Dilger's Dromoland agency. Baffert did not disclose his client.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lane’s End stallion Kingmambo, sire of 1999 Belmont winner and 2000 champion older male Lemon Drop Kid, is unlikely to return to the breeding shed in 2011, farm owner Will Farish told the Blood-Horse.
Farish said the 20-year-old Mr. Prospector horse bred only one mare in 2010.
“He has had a terrible neck problem for some time,” said Farish. “We only bred one mare to him this year, and she didn’t get in foal. It’s not his fertility – it’s his ability to perform. We’ve tried everything in the world, as you can imagine.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. – As the bidding for Hip No. 14 escalated, even the jaded horse-traders in Keeneland’s sale pavilion craned their necks like kids at a circus to spot who, in this infamously lackluster economy, would bid more than $4 million, for a yearling?
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - An $80,000 full brother to stakes winner Double Malt headed the open session of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.
Trainer Bob Tiller, as agent for 3 Sons Racing Stable, purchased the sale topper, a son of Whiskey Wisdom, from agent Kingstead Stable.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - An $80,000 full brother to stakes winner Double Malt headed the open session of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.
Trainer Bob Tiller, as agent for 3 Sons Racing Stable, purchased the sale topper, a son of Whiskey Wisdom, from agent Kingstead Stable.