LEXINGTON, Ky. - Zayat Stables announced Tuesday that its Grade 3 winner Heart Ashley has retired from racing and will go through the auction ring at the 2010 Keeneland November sale.
Zayat Stables owner Ahmed Zayat will consign the 4-year-old Lion Heart filly through the Eaton Sales agency.
A colt by the late stallion Wildcat Shoes topped the Fasig-Tipton Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park on Monday when he fetched $111,000 from the Coteau Grove Farm of Keith and Ginger Myers. The Louisiana-bred is a half-brother to 2-year-old stakes winner Toro Bravo.
A Fayette, Ky., Circuit Court judge has ordered Audrey Haisfield and son Marc to pay Fifth Third Bank a total of more than $14.7 million as the guarantors of loans Audrey Haisfield’s Stonewall Farm took out.
Judge Pamela Goodwine signed the order on Aug. 25, clearing the way for Fifth Third to attempt to recover the funds from the Haisfields.
Former basketball star Bobby Hurley's Ocala, Fla., farm will go on the auction block Oct. 5 as a result of PNC Bank's foreclosure on the 140-acre property.
Named Devil Eleven Farm in honor of Hurley's jersey number during his famous career with the Duke University basketball team, the farm is a major asset in PNC's attempt to recover about $3.3 million in loans and fees. PNC Bank began foreclosure proceedings in late April.
It was Social Belle’s figure that caught Stephen B. Weissman’s eye on a Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita in March 2002. Her speed figures, to be exact.
The mare was in the first race at Santa Anita on a Saturday, a $20,000 claimer, and Weissman saw the then 5-year-old as a broodmare prospect, one who had recorded Beyer Speed Figures of 93 and 103 in two of her first three starts.
“She was going downhill and I bought her for $20,000,” he said. “The mare was beautiful. I thought, How can she not produce?”
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s August yearling auction ended Thursday night in Ocala, Fla., on a high note after all three session rang up increases.
The sale topper was a $280,000 Any Given Saturday filly out of Ricki S. that Beth Bayer’s agency sold to Jeff Bonde and Mersad Metanovic. The filly is out of a full sister to graded stakes winner and millionaire Brass Hat and sold at the auction’s select session on Tuesday.
Smarty Jones might head back to his home state of Pennsylvania, if his breeder and co-owner, Pat Chapman, can put together a deal to relocate him from Kentucky.
“I want him in Pennsylvania,” she told the Philadelphia Daily News in an Aug. 26 story.
Academy Award, a Grade 2 winner and one of the last sons of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, was euthanized Tuesday at the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., because of chronic hoof abscesses that had become debilitating.
Academy Award, 24, was a son of the Mr. Prospector winner Mine Only, making him a three-quarter brother to Grade 3 winner Statuette and a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Good Mood.