Barbaro's condition has progressed to the point that he no longer is wearing a sling to help him keep his weight off of his injured hind legs. That news came Thursday from the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, where the colt remains in intensive care after breaking his right hind leg in the Preakness and subsequently developing severe laminitis in his left hind leg.
Lion Tamer, a Grade 1 winner and millionaire, has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2007 at Clear Creek Stud in Folsom, La.
, now 6, is by Will's Way. He won the Grade 1 Cigar Mile in 2004 and four other stakes, and finished third in the Breeders' Cup Sprint and the Vosburgh Stakes in 2005. He retires with a record of 8-3-2 from 20 starts and earnings of $1,000,727.
Lion Tamer, a Grade 1 winner and millionaire, has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2007 at Clear Creek Stud in Folsom, La., the farm has announced.
, now 6, won the 2004 Cigar Mile to earn his Grade 1-winning status. He won four other stakes in his career and finished third in the Breeders' Cup Sprint and the Vosburgh Stakes in 2005. He retires with a career race record of 8-3-2 from 20 starts and earnings of $1,000,727.
Barbaro's condition has progressed to the point that he no longer is wearing a sling to help him keep his weight off of his injured hind legs. That good news came Thursday from the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, where Barbaro remains in intensive care after breaking his right hind leg in the Preakness and subsequently developing severe laminitis in his left hind leg while at the hospital.
A pair of $40,000 yearlings were the high mark at Fasig-Tipton's first Saratoga open yearling sale Tuesday.
An Out of Place-Miss Millennium filly, offered by the Rhapsody Farm Bloodstock agency as Hip No. 485, was the first to sell for that price. Patrick Everard was the buyer. The filly is the second foal for her dam, a winning Mane Minister mare who is a half-sister to the Grade 3-placed stakes winner U So Bad.
Led by a Benchmark colt who sold for $72,000, prices rose over last year at Tuesday's northern California yearling sale in Pleasanton, Calif.
The topper brought a record price for the sale, now in its third year. Overall, 165 horses sold for $1,351,600, a record average of $8,192 and an increase of 8.6 percent over last year's average. There were 58 horses bought back. The median price of $4,000 was unchanged from last year.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The Travers Stakes may be Saratoga's centerpiece, usually featuring the best 3-year-olds from the Triple Crown, but in reality, the 2-year-olds rule at this racetrack.
Since opening day, July 26, nearly every open maiden race for juveniles has featured exquisitely bred babies. The Hopeful Stakes, which is run at the end of the Saratoga meet, is the big prize for 2-year-old colts, and its roster is a Who's Who of the sport's great 2-year-olds, many of whom went on to greater glory at 3.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro stepped outside his barn last week at the University of Pennsylvania's equine hospital and did something he hasn't been able to do since May: graze.
The 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, who has been at the New Bolton Center hospital since breaking his right hind leg during the May 20 Preakness Stakes, is now being allowed "brief outings" to graze outside while on a lead shank, the hospital said in a release issued Monday.
A spate of six-figure yearlings gave Fasig-Tipton a boost to the bottom line on Saturday and Sunday at the company's New York-bred preferred yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
A $230,000 colt by first-crop sire Hook and Ladder led a parade of 12 yearlings selling for $100,000 or more. They pushed the average price up 11 percent to a sale-record $52,421, the first time the auction average has risen above $50,000.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The top-selling lot at the Saratoga select yearling auction that concluded on Wednesday was a bay filly marked as Hip No. 146. The filly's sale for $1.6 million was a major success for her sire, Empire Maker, whose first foals are yearlings, and for breeder Diane Snowden, who bred the Saratoga sales leader from her stakes-winning broodmare Sluice, who had been a seven-figure sales yearling herself.
The results at Saratoga were wholly encouraging for the Belmont Stakes winner Empire Maker, a top-class son of Unbridled.
