Hook and Ladder is represented by his first crop of yearlings in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky yearling sale Monday and Tuesday at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.
A 9-year-old son of Dixieland Band, Hook and Ladder is owned by Becky Thomas and Chester Broman, and stands at the Thomas's Lakland North LLC farm in Hudson, N.Y.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected yearling sale on Monday and Tuesday kicks off the two months of selected yearling auctions. Among the many yearling pinhookers from Florida who buy at these sales are Ciaran and Amy Dunne, who do business as Wavertree Stable. Wavertree Stable had a banner year selling in the 2-year-old markets this year, including a $190,000 Red Bullet colt pinhooked at Barretts for $2.5 million, a Belong to Me colt sold at the Ocala Breeders' Sales March sale for $1.8 million, and a $1.2 million Indian Charlie colt sold at Fasig-Tipton.
The summer sales season starts with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale Monday and Tuesday at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., and Maryland breeders are ready to go. With nearly two dozen statebred yearlings cataloged, only Kentucky and Florida have a higher representation of statebreds.
Recent Maryland-bred graduates of this sale include last year's statebred 2-year-old filly champion Celestial Legend, who was sold by her breeders Bill Fitzgibbons and David Wade for $45,000. The filly has won four stakes and $213,730 from nine starts.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - North America's members in the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers have raised the minimum purse requirement for races to earn black-type designation in sales catalogs.
Effective Jan. 1, 2007, races must have a total purse of $45,000, distributed on the day of the race, in order to be eligible for black type. The current minimum purse requirement is $40,000. The minimum purse level will be raised again, to $50,000, effective Jan. 1, 2008.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Barbaro's surgeon termed the colt's condition "guarded" and said he faces "tough odds" on Wednesday now that infection has threatened his survival.
"As we said yesterday, Barbaro's condition is potentially serious, and we are aggressively seeking all treatment options," Dr. Dean Richardson said in a release issued Wednesday by the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. "Today we will focus on further diagnostics and keeping our patient comfortable."
Barbaro, the injured Kentucky Derby winner, was still "resting comfortably" Tuesday, according to his surgeon, three days after an infection led to surgery to replace the compression plate and many screws holding his broken right hind leg together.
"Barbaro is eating well and resting in his stall," Dr. Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center equine hospital, said in a release issued Tuesday.
A $5.2 million King Kamehameha filly set a world foal or weanling record on Tuesday and jump-started the Japan Racing Horse Association's summer foal sale at the Northern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido.
The Tuesday session was the first of two selling foals and followed the company's first yearling sale on Monday, which set a Japanese yearling mark of $1.79 million for a Pivotal colt out of Veil of Avalon. Both the top-priced yearling and the world-record filly foal involved the same connections: seller Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm and buyer Nobutaka Tada.
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It may be time to start paying to attention to Brahms, whose first foals are 3. On June 30, Dixie's Jubilee, a 3-year-old filly by Brahms, won a 5 1/2-furlong allowance, paying $15, and on July 8, Arson Squad, a 3-year-old gelding by Brahms, won the Swaps Stakes, defeating Point Determined and A. P. Warrior.
A $5.2 million King Kamehameha filly set a world foal or weanling record on Tuesday and jump-started the Japan Racing Horse Association's summer foal sale at Hokkaido's Northern Horse Park.
The Tuesday session was the first of two selling foals and followed the company's first yearling sale on Monday, which set a Japanese yearling mark of $1.79 million for a Pivotal colt out of Veil of Avalon. Both the top-priced yearling and the world record filly foal involved the same connections: seller Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm and buyer Nobutaka Tada.
