LEXINGTON, Ky. - The victory by Showing Up in the Colonial Turf Cup was a racing result with several upbeat implications. It was, for instance, a deserved boost for Showing Up's owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who recently saw two classic winners they had bred become sidelined by injury. The Jacksons raced Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner, under their Lael Stables banner, and sold George Washington, who won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale will have an unusual feature this year: a white Trust N Luck filly.
The Jockey Club has registered only 40 white Thoroughbreds since 1896, though they are becoming more common as some horsemen specifically try to breed white Thoroughbreds. The Trust N Luck filly, selling as Hip No. 41, is one of eight white Thoroughbreds registered in 2005.
With results of seven major Eastern 2-year-old sales now in the book, prices for New York-breds continue to run ahead of the figures for 2005.
Total receipts for 217 statebreds are $13,397,300 following the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company auction of June 20-21.
That works out to an average price of $61,739, which is 20 percent higher than the corresponding figures for 2005, when 243 sold for $12,487,600, averaging $51,389.
Rain or shine, the show goes on. And trainer Tim Ritchey, who handled the pressures of last year's Triple Crown with aplomb, was equally composed while judging six classes of Maryland-bred yearlings Sunday in the 72nd annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show at the Maryland State Fairgrounds's horse show ring in Timonium.
Florida and Georgia have close Thoroughbred industry ties. Each year in January the Georgia Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association conducts a fund-raising auction of stallion seasons. Many of these stallion seasons are donated by Floridians. The Georgia owners and breeders reciprocates by sponsoring stakes races at Calder Race Course for the offspring of stallions whose seasons were donated to the year's fund-raising auction. These races have no statebred restrictions.
Mubtaker, a champion, multiple Group 2 winner, and the runner-up in the 2003 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, died Tuesday after breaking his leg on the gallops at Lambourn, England.
A son of Silver Hawk, Mubtaker was 9.
Mubtaker, trained by Marcus Tregoning for Sheikh Hamdan al-Maktoum, sustained multiple fractures in his right hind leg while exercising, the Racing Post reported. His rider, John Kennedy, was not hurt. Veterinarians on the scene determined that the horse's injuries were too serious to warrant treatment, and he was euthanized.
The $67,000 juvenile filly Legend Lucy was the high point of the Barretts June 2-year-old and racing-age sale in Pomona, Calif., which ended Tuesday night with declines across the board.
The Comic Strip filly sold as Hip No. 82 to Tom Acker and Bob Toomajian. The Havens Bloodstock agency sold the filly, a daughter of Raise a Legend, an unraced Northern Prospect mare. The filly is from the family of Santa Anita Derby winner Larry the Legend.
My Memoirs, second to A.P. Indy in the 1992 Belmont Stakes, has died in Colorado. He was 17.
My Memoirs stood at George and Susan Wafer's Wafer Thoroughbred Ranch in Elizabeth, Colo. He was found dead in his paddock on June 24.
"We don't know what happened to him," George Wafer said.
The English-bred My Memoirs came to the United States in in 1992 when Jeff Siegel and Barry Irwin's Team Valor Stable purchased him privately after his victory in England's Dee Stakes. My Memoirs lost the Belmont to A.P. Indy by three-quarters of a length, with Pine Bluff third.
