Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's winter mixed sale rang up a handful of six-figure horses Monday, one day after posting sharp gains at its opening session.
At 5:30 p.m., Monday's session-leading price was $200,000 for the Grade 3-placed stakes winner Coli Bear, an earner of $378,070. G. Chris Coleman bought the 5-year-old Formal Dinner mare. Crossroads Sales Agency consigned her as Hip No. 298. Coli Bear was one of five horses to bring $100,000 or more by that hour.
The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association on Monday named 11 members to serve on the Monitoring Committee of the Sales Integrity Task Force. The committee will oversee implementation of the task force's November 2007 recommendations to increase transparency in bloodstock sales and also with evaluating the recommendations' effectiveness.
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's winter mixed sale on Feb. 10-11 has gained six late entrants from Joanne Nor's Norfields Farm.
The Norfields draft will include the 7-year-old Forestry mare Teton National, who is from the family of Behrens, and an unraced 4-year-old Unbridled's Song broodmare prospect from the family of Desert Stormer. Both will sell through the Taylor Made agency.
As they prepare for the imminent select 2-year-old sale season, executives at the nation's major auction houses agree about one thing: The 2008 select juvenile season probably will look similar to last year's, at least in terms of financial returns.
The shutdown of racing at Aqueduct on Feb. 14 still loomed as a possibility on Thursday despite the insistence of Joseph Bruno, the state senate majority leader, that a long-term franchise extension for the New York Racing Association was close at hand, officials involved in negotiations said.
When Bay Meadows presumably closes its doors for the last time this year, the face of racing in Northern California will change dramatically in 2009.
Golden Gate Fields, Northern California's only other privately owned track, is on record as saying it would be able to accommodate only 50 of Bay Meadows's approximate 100 race dates, leaving 50 possible dates for fair tracks, which are owned by the state or counties.
A Hold That Tiger colt breezed a quarter-mile in 20.80 seconds Sunday as the fastest worker over that distance at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's select 2-year-old sale preview.
Sunday's preview was the first of two breeze shows for the Feb. 12 auction in Ocala, Fla., and the first to be conducted over OBS's newly installed Safetrack synthetic surface. The second under-tack preview was to take place on Feb. 10 at 9 a.m.
Millennium Farms has added its Grade 1-winning stallion Millennium Wind to its new "frequent breeder" rewards program.
Millennium Wind stands at Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y., for a $5,000 fee this year.
Under the program, breeders can accumulate points by breeding to Millennium stallions and for successes those stallions' progeny have in the sale ring and at the races. Breeders can redeem points, converted to dollars at a rate of 10 percent, and apply that toward the fee of a Millennium stallion.
Officials for the Thoroughbred Owners of California and New York's offtrack betting corporations have not yet discussed a resolution to a dispute over the rate the OTB companies pay for signals from California tracks, according to an official at one of the offtrack companies on Monday.
Charles Wait, the president of the upstate New York bank Adirondack Trust, resigned from the board of the New York Racing Association on Wednesday, one day prior to openly criticizing senator Joseph Bruno for his role in negotiations over a long-term franchise for the association.