The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will host a pedigree and conformation clinic on Aug. 2 and a Thoroughbred ownership seminar on Aug. 5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The pedigree and conformation clinic, scheduled for 8 a.m. at Fasig-Tipton’s sale pavilion, costs $125 for TOBA members and $175 for non-members and includes all materials, breakfast, and lunch. Topics will include nicking, Dosage, outcrossing, inbreeding, and live conformation evaluations.
The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club in Lexington. Ky., has named Callan Strouss its 2010 Farm Manager of the Year.
Strouss manages the Oak Tree division of Lane’s End Farm in Fayette County, where Lane’s End maintains an American broodmare band for the Niarchos family. Strouss also owns a 60-acre farm, Caldara, with his wife, Darcia Fantucchio.
Robin Scully’s Clovelly Farms in Lexington, Ky., will disperse its bloodstock this year at Keeneland and Tattersalls, farm manager Jeff Ownby confirmed Wednesday.
Clovelly will sell about 35 broodmares, weanlings, and racehorses at the Keeneland November auction. The farm also will offer a group of about 10 yearlings at the Keeneland September sale.
Smooth Air, a multiple Grade 2 winner and millionaire, has been retired after nearly a year away from racing.
Brian Burns of Mount Joy Stables, which owns the 5-year-old Smooth Jazz horse, announced Monday that the horse will retire due to a foot injury. "Smooth Air has been fantastic to us and deserves to be turned out to stud at this time," Burns said.
Stud plans haven't been finalized yet.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - JPMorgan Chase Bank has sued Stonewall Farm, the former home of Medaglia d'Oro, and is seeking to seize and sell the stallions A. P. Warrior and champion Leroidesanimaux as part of a $7 million lawsuit it has filed against the Kentucky farm.
The career direction of Whatsthescript, the five-time stakes winner and 2010 stallion is uncertain in coming months, and that is not a worry for owner Tom Stull.
After standing his first season at stud at Stull’s Tommy Town Thoroughbreds earlier this year, Whatsthescript was put back in training in the spring. In his comeback in the Battlefield Stakes at Monmouth Park on July 10, Whatsthescript closed from seventh in a field of eight to finish third, beaten 1 1/2 lengths by Violon Sacre.
The career direction of Whatsthescript, the five-time stakes winner and 2010 stallion, is uncertain, but that is not a worry for owner Tom Stull.
After standing his first season at stud at Stull's Tommy Town Thoroughbreds earlier this year, Whatsthescript was put back in training in the spring. In his comeback in the Battlefield Stakes at Monmouth Park on July 10, Whatsthescript closed from seventh in a field of eight to finish third, beaten 1 1/2 lengths by Violon Sacre.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Fasig-Tipton’s July select yearling sale, which ended Wednesday, presented some good opportunities for buyers to upgrade their stock or test new waters, and some took that chance as prices generally remained lower than last year.
Carolyn Vogel, the New Hampshire-based owner of Crossed Sabres Farm, paid $225,000 for a Malibu Moon-Five Star Dream filly as part of a plan to step up the quality in her stable, said her agent at Taylor Made Farm, Teresa Little.
A New Jersey bankruptcy court has approved Thoroughbred owner Ahmed Zayat’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan for his Zayat Stables.
The approval follows a settlement last month between Zayat Stables and Fifth Third Bank, which sued Zayat late last year for more than $34 million, alleging the stable had defaulted on a series of loans. Zayat Stables filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February to protect its assets from the bank’s attempt to appoint a receiver, and in April Zayat filed a countersuit alleging the bank had practiced deceptive and predatory lending.