LEXINGTON, Ky. - Racehorse buyers and the yearling-to-juvenile resellers called pinhookers were dominant Wednesday at the ninth session of Keeneland's 14-day September yearling sale.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Racehorse buyers seeking yearlings from young broodmares were dominant Wednesday at the ninth session of Keeneland's 14-day September yearling sale.
Twin Peeks Racing paid $150,000 - the session-leading price at 4 p.m. Eastern - for Hip No. 3102. The Birdstone colt offered by the Clabes Bloodstock agency is out of Elle Nicole, a 6-year-old El Corredor mare.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington hit its halfway point Monday, the seventh of 14 sessions.
The session sold 277 yearlings for $11,091,800, down 41 percent from Day 7 last season. Monday's average price of $40,043 and median of $27,000 were down 40 percent and 46 percent, respectively. The buy-back rate rose from 21 percent last year to 25 percent.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington hit its halfway point Monday, the seventh of 14 sessions. The glowering skies and heavy showers matched the falling returns, though the top prices at each session continued to hold steady at six figures, much as they did at this point last year.
Vinery has created a new sale consignment division that will offer horses in the select juvenile sales next year.
Vinery has divisions in Florida, Kentucky, and Australia, and the Florida farm's training facilities will serve as headquarters for the juvenile sale horses. Managed by Ian Brennan, the Summerfield, Fla., property has been serving as a breaking-and-training facility for Vinery's runners.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Three yearlings finally broke the $1 million barrier Tuesday at Keeneland's September yearling auction, and one of them revived a bidding rivalry that many had believed was a thing of the past.
With the September sale languishing after calamitous financial declines on Monday, it took a $2.05 million Storm Cat colt in Tuesday's session to revive the battle between the Thoroughbred sport's two big houses: Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum and Coolmore Stud.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The two-week Keeneland September sale got under way Monday in Lexington, and by the time the session ended, the situation was clear. The world's largest Thoroughbred yearling auction was the expected buyer's market. Selling was active but marred by buy-backs as bidders scouted for bargains and many sellers refused to discount their horses too far. And the crowd-pleasing duels between Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum and Coolmore Stud that resulted in multimillion-dollar bids were a distant memory.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale opens Monday in Lexington with a smaller catalog than last year and lowered expectations in light of the dramatic downturn in both the Thoroughbred market and general economy.
The auction begins with a pair of select sessions Monday and Tuesday, then continues with open sessions through Sept. 28. The sessions will stream at . HRTV also will broadcast the select sessions.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gus Koch's birthday on Sept. 26 will mark a special milestone: it will be the longtime Claiborne farm manager's last day at work.
It's hard to think of Koch, 62, as a retiree. He's been working in the Thoroughbred business since 1970, when he left the Marine Corps and started by hauling feed at Stoner Creek Stud under legendary farm manager Charles Kenney. He joined Claiborne on Sept. 1, 1978, after a five-year stint at E.P. Taylor's Windfields. From the start, his career path has intersected with those of numerous great racehorses, stallions, and mares.