Falbrav, a multiple Group 1 winner who stood this year's breeding season at Teruya Yoshida's Shadai Farm in Japan, has been leased to stand the 2005 season at Cheveley Park Stud in England.
A 6-year-old son of Fairy King, Falbrav won five Group 1 races in 2003 and finished third, beaten by just a head, in the Breeders' Cup Turf.
Falbrav will stand at Cheveley Park's Newmarket base for a fee of 17,500 pounds ($32,200).
LAS VEGAS - Colonial Downs will be the site of the $500,000 Virginia Derby for 3-year-olds at 10 furlongs on the turf Saturday, and Artie Schiller and Kitten's Joy, who should vie for favoritism along with Prince Arch, are both sons of the very popular El Prado. Timo, another son of El Prado, won the Kent Stakes at Delaware Park (nine furlongs on the grass) on June 26. They are just a few of the growing number of runners by El Prado who are winning stakes races on dirt or turf.
The Tattersalls July sale featuring racing-aged stock and broodmares started its three-day run Tuesday with a record session. The Newmarket, England, auction house sold the 3-year-old Rainbow Quest mare Echoes for 130,000 guineas, or about $252,525, setting a new sale mark. The opening session also set a new mark for gross receipts and both average and median prices.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - At Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's summer yearling sale on July 19-20, there will be some new kids on the block selling horses. Buyers who stop at Barn 3F to examine JLT Bloodstock's four yearlings might be surprised to find that the consignors are exactly that: kids.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Nearly three years after his death, Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled still shines a bright light on racing and breeding. Already the sire of winners of the Kentucky Derby (Grindstone), Preakness (Red Bullet), Belmont (Empire Maker), Coaching Club American Oaks (Banshee Breeze), and Travers (Unshaded), Unbridled extended his dominion over the most important middle-distance events for classic colts and fillies when his son Niigon won the Queen's Plate at Woodbine on June 27.
Eight summers ago, Frank Stronach made a fact-finding trip to the Ocala, Fla., area. The purpose of the tour was to determine if the Stronach horses, numbering in the hundreds, would be better off training and wintering in Florida than at Stronach's home base in Kentucky.
Mark Roberts, now the general manager at Stronach's Adena Springs Farm South near Ocala, served as a guide for Stronach during his tour.
Well-known sales agent Marshall Silverman has had his hands on many good horses. After spotting a Two Punch colt this past winter at a farm in Chesapeake City, Md., Silverman knew he had to make an offer to buy him. Less than six months later, Silverman's bay colt was selected grand champion of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association's 70th annual yearling show on June 27 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium.
Barretts will make the June horses of racing age and 2-year-olds in training sale an annual event after a successful inaugural sale last Tuesday, general manager Gerald McMahon said.
The one-day sale at Fairplex Park in Pomona sold 93 horses for $1,254,800, an average of $13,492 and a median of $8,000. The 2-year-olds led the sale, with 53 juveniles selling for an average of $16,006. The 40 horses of racing age grossed $406,500, an average of $10,163.
The sale topper was a 2-year-old Helmsman filly purchased for $110,000 by Howard Roberts Farm.