The Barretts summer sale of horses of racing age and 2-year-olds in-training on Tuesday in Pomona is primarily for juveniles, but there is one noteworthy name on the list of horses of racing age.
Frankelstein, who has won 2 of 11 starts and $123,420, will be offered by owner Edward Nahem as part of a consignment by Sam Hendricks, agent. A 4-year-old Bertrando gelding, Frankelstein finished fifth in the Quicken Tree Stakes for California-breds at Hollywood Park on June 18 in his stakes debut.
Polish Precedent, a French champion whose progeny include the multiple champion and 1996 Breeders' Cup Turf winner Pilsudski, has died at age 19.
The Darley organization, which stood Polish Precedent at its Dalham Hall in Newmarket, England, announced Wednesday that the stallion had died from complications related to colic surgery Tuesday night.
Kingmambo, who missed time from the breeding shed at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky., because of health problems earlier this year, has ended the season early.
"He just had had a tough season," Lane's End owner Will Farish said Tuesday. "It's been up and down, and we just decided rather than put him through any more, we'd stop and let nature take its course."
Farish said the stallion is healthy but needed a rest, on the advice of veterinarians. He covered 36 mares in 2005.
A Gilded Time colt equaled the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's fastest-ever eighth-mile work on Saturday in Ocala, Fla., when he covered the distance in 10 seconds.
The colt breezed at the weekend's under-tack preview for the OBS June sale, which was to run Tuesday and Wednesday at the auction house's facility in Ocala.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Giacomo, winner of the Kentucky Derby, will join the stallion roster at Frank Stronach's Adena Springs operation when he retires from racing, though that retirement is not imminent.
Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs, racing manager for the colt's owners, Jerry and Ann Moss, and wife of trainer John Shirreffs, confirmed Friday that the Mosses had struck a deal with Adena Springs.
"He isn't going to be retired right away, needless to say, but when Mr. Moss and Mr. Shirreffs decide to retire him, he will go to Adena Springs," Ingordo-Shirreffs said.
Waddell Hancock, the widow of Claiborne Farm owner A.B. "Bull" Hancock, Jr., died at her home near Paris, Ky., on Friday. She was 90.
The Hancocks had four children. The younger of two sons, Seth, is president of Claiborne and owns the legendary breeding farm with his sisters Dell and Clay. The Hancocks' older son, Arthur III, owns Stone Farm.
Hancock also has eight grandchildren among her survivors.
A prominent first-crop runner can do wonders for a stallion, as is the case for New York sire Intidab.
From a crop of just six foals, Intidab got multiple graded stakes winner Greater Good, a leading juvenile of 2004 and a contender on the Triple Crown trail this season.
A son of New York sire Phone Trick, Intidab has since been booked to more than 60 mares for the 2005 season.