Morgan and Janet Wayson are hoping that history repeats itself on this year's Maryland Million Day, Oct. 13 at Laurel Park.
The Waysons, longtime Thoroughbred owners from southern Maryland, campaigned one of the most accomplished runners ever to win a Maryland Million race. Their mare Thirty Eight Go Go gave her breakout performance in the 1987 Maryland Million Lassie and went on to win or place in 20 additional stakes, earning a career total of $871,229.
In just two years Richard Moylan has built Hunterview Farm in Orangeville, Ontario, into one of the key locations for the province's horse people to foal mares, train horses, and prep yearlings.
For example, last winter Moylan and his staff of four on the 100-acre farm prepared last year's champion turf male Sky Conqueror for the 2007 racing season, and Sky Conqueror already has a Grade 1 victory in the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs.
Shes an Eleven, the winner of the 2006 Melair Stakes, has returned to training after showing no interest in being bred earlier this year, trainer John Sadler said earlier this week.
The 4-year-old filly was sent from Kentucky to Sadlers stable in late June and has already worked a half-mile for an expected comeback. Owned by Lee and Susan Searings CRK Stables, Shes an Eleven has won 2 of 8 starts and $216,954.
Too Much Bling, a multiple graded stakes winner, will relocate from Sequel Stallions in Florida to Lane's End Texas for the 2008 breeding season.
Lane's End Texas is located near Hempstead, and is owned by Will Farish.
Too Much Bling will stand for $6,000 live foal in 2008, a reduction from his $10,000 fee in 2007, his initial year at stud.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gainesway Farm's sale-topping Mr. Greeley colt, which brought $2.2 million at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, was a big win for the farm, although Gainesway didn't breed him.
A group of managers from Gainesway, Graham Beck's Lexington nursery, initially bought half of the big chestnut from his breeders, Rob Whiteley's Liberation Farm and Chris and Cathy Elia. But it didn't take long for them to spot the colt's developing potential as an auction-ring home run, and they went back and bought the breeders out.
A daughter of Unbridled's Song sold for $310,000 to top the New York-bred contingent at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale last week.
Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, she was purchased by Starlight Stables as Hip No. 201.
The filly, out of Housebuster's daughter Dither, is a half-sister to two stakes winners, including New York-bred How 'bout No, from a family that includes Grade 3 winner Move.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Golden Eagle Farm, a mainstay in California racing since the late 1950s, is being downsized over the next year and will sell its flagship farm in Ramona, Calif.
But Larry Mabee, the son of the late founder of the farm, John Mabee, insists Golden Eagle is not abandoning horse racing. Earlier this week, Larry Mabee and his mother, Betty, announced the farm's future plans, which include an eventual relocation to a 29-acre farm in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., not far from Del Mar.
A small, select group of Maryland-breds turned out over the two nights of Saratoga's marquee sale of selected yearlings Monday and Tuesday, and when the gavel fell, all eight to go through the ring brought six figures.
The shining moment came late on the opening night when a chestnut filly sold by her breeder, Bohemia Stable, with Walnut Green as agent, brought $330,000, the highest price of this year's Maryland-bred Saratoga offerings. Edward and Robert Evans purchased the El Prado filly out of multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire Shine Again.
There are 1,507 yearlings cataloged for the five-day Ocala Breeders August sale. The selected session, Monday, Aug. 20, offers 248 yearlings. The remaining yearlings will be auctioned over four days Aug. 21-24.
Midway in this auction comes Hip No. 726, a stout bay or brown colt with no markings. He is by Sweetsouthernsaint and out of the unraced Swishy Lady, by Sword Dance. He is the only sales horse representing Tom and Mary McKinnons Mac Mt. Thoroughbred Farm.
Golden Eagle Farm, a leading owner and breeder in California in recent decades, will drastically reduce its bloodstock holdings in the next year and is arranging to sell its flagship farm in Ramona, Calif., according to a statement released on Tuesday.