Strategic Mission, sire of Grade 2 winner Showing Up, is returning to Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2007 season.
The 11-year-old Mr. Prospector horse began his stud career at Gainesway but has been standing at Liberty Stud in New York since 2004 under a lease deal between the farm and Strategic Mission's owners, Gainesway and Live Oak Stud. His success with such runners as Showing Up and stakes winner Miss Savannah Rose from just 19 racing-age foals has bought him a return ticket to the Bluegrass.
Strategic Mission, sire of Grade 2 winner Showing Up, is returning to Gainesway Farm in Lexington for the 2007 season. An 11-year-old Mr. Prospector horse, Strategic Mission began his stud career at Gainesway but has been standing at Liberty Stud in New York since 2004 under a lease deal between the farm and Strategic Mission's owners, Gainesway and Live Oak Stud. His success with such runners as Showing Up and stakes-winners Miss Savannah Rose from just 19 racing-age foals has bought him a return ticket to Gainesway.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Forestry set the Thoroughbred auction market alight this spring at the Fasig-Tipton Calder select 2-year-old sale, where his son The Green Monkey set a world record auction price of $16 million. If Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's July select sale on Monday was any indication, Forestry will be hot in the 2006 yearling season, too.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The new sire showcase at Fasig-Tipton's July select sale of yearlings does more than offer a venue for selling the yearlings from the first or second crop of their sires. It also provides the first look at an elite sampling of the first-crop yearlings by some of the most intriguing and most famous young stallions in the breed.
Among the famed young sires with their first yearlings available at auction are Empire Maker, Vindication, Aldebaran, and Sky Mesa.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton Kentucky kicks off the yearling sale season in Lexington on Monday with a slimmed down catalog and a tighter selection process for its yearlings. Company officials hope that the smaller group of horses and the sale's record of producing winners will result in gains at the two-day auction.
Last year, the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale was coming off a record season. But the 2005 sale catalog ballooned to a record 672 horses, and the extra offerings did not help the auction maintain its momentum from 2004. The result was declines across the board.
Nine years after Best of Friends made her career debut in a $20,000 claimer at Woodbine, her son Edenwold won the Queen's Plate on June 25, the first leg of Canada's Triple Crown and the most prestigious race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.
By Southern Halo, Edenwold is now favored to win the second leg, the Prince of Wales Stakes, on Sunday at Fort Erie.
Edenwold was co-bred by Gail Wood and Bill Diamant, whose wife, Vicki Pappas, claimed Best of Friends for $10,000 from her fourth start, Sept. 4, 1997.
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.
