LEXINGTON, Ky. - A weanling half-sister to Grade 1 winner Juju's Map led Sunday's session at $360,000 as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale reached its midway point with significant gains, having already surpassed its total gross sales from 2020.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - The well-related young broodmare Belle Street sold for $550,000 to lead the Book 3 opener as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale moved deeper into the marketplace with continued gains.
Keeneland reported 252 horses sold on Saturday, the first of two Book 3 sessions and the fourth of 10 sessions overall at this auction, for grosses of $19,981,500. In last year's comparable Book 3 opener, 226 horses brought $13,141,000.
Eclipse Award champion turf horse and leading turf sire English Channel died Thursday morning following an illness. One of the heirs to leading sire Smart Strike, English Channel was 19.
Calumet Farm reported Wednesday that its prominent sire was likely to miss the 2022 breeding season after being “diagnosed with multiple health issues.” The exact nature of the issues were not disclosed. The stallion’s health continued to worsen despite treatment.
Eclipse Award champion turf horse and leading turf sire English Channel died Thursday morning following an illness. The son of Smart Strike was 19.
Calumet Farm reported on Wednesday that its prominent sire was likely to miss the 2022 breeding season after being “diagnosed with multiple health issues.” The exact nature of the issues were not disclosed. The stallion’s health then continued to decline.
Adena Springs, the 2,300-acre central Kentucky property that was established by Frank Stronach in 2007, is being marketed for sale, according to the real-estate firm handling the transaction.
The sprawling property, which has served as the main home for Stronach’s bloodstock holdings since the farm was opened, is one of a number of high-value Thoroughbred farms just outside Paris, Ky. At the height of his involvement in Thoroughbred racing and breeding, Stronach owned hundreds of broodmares and dozens of stallions.
Dubawi became the first sire to have three offspring win Breeders’ Cup races in a single year, also fueling a historic weekend for Godolphin, the owner and breeder of all three victors.
Dubawi, the sire of one previous Breeders’ Cup winner in 2017 Filly and Mare Turf heroine Wuheida, is based at Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England, for Sheikh Mohammed’s international Godolphin operation, which stands its stallions under the Darley brand.
The Niarchos Family was honored with the 2021 Longines and IFHA International Award of Merit on Friday at the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. Fittingly, their brilliant runner Miesque, who made Breeders’ Cup history during her own career, also showed her influence during this race weekend in California.
Sunday Silence, winner of the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders’ Cup Classic, spent his entire stud career in Japan. There, he found a perfectly complementary gene pool and became a breed-shaping sire whose impact in his adopted country cannot be overstated.
Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Knicks Go and Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Aloha West gave Maryland two Breeders’ Cup winners last week at Del Mar.
Aloha West captured the Sprint by a nose, a few hours before Knicks Go scored his second Breeders’ Cup win in the Classic. He won the Dirt Mile in 2020.
Knicks Go became the third Maryland-bred to win the Classic, joining Concern (1994) and the legendary Cigar (1995).