Elizabeth Liza" Samuel, wife of the late Ernie Samuel and a principal in the leading Canadian Thoroughbred outfit Sam-Son Farm, died at home on Sunday following a long battle with cancer and emphysema, the Woodbine Entertainment Group announced Monday.
Visitation was to take place from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday and from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at Glen Oaks Memorial Chapel, 3164 9th Line, Oakville. There will be a private family funeral service.
A Full Mandate filly breezed a quarter-mile in 20.80 seconds Saturday, topping the work tab at that distance in the final under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March select 2-year-old sale.
The final under-tack preview originally was scheduled to take place in two sessions on Saturday and Sunday, but the company decided last week to combine the two sessions in a single preview on Saturday.
Wagering on races and incoming simulcasts at the four tracks and other wagering sites owned by Churchill Downs Inc. was $3.14 billion in 2007, up 4.9 percent compared with 2006, according to financial documents the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s two-day March select sale will take place March 18-19 in the middle of a juvenile auction season that has so far been turbulent.
The auction year opened strongly in Ocala, Fla., a month ago, when the OBS February select sale set records for average price ($157,640) and median ($125,000). But the juvenile market's upper reaches at Fasig-Tipton's Feb. 26 Calder sale and the recent Barretts March auction fell short of 2007 levels.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - John Brocklebank and Shane Chipman of B.C.3. Thoroughbreds barely got done selling their eight-horse consignment before they were off on a new project: a yearling-to-juvenile pinhooking venture in Australia.
The Utah-based partners are the first American yearling-to-juvenile pinhookers to be invited Down Under by the Magic Millions auction company.
Adena Springs South, Frank Stronach's farm in Williston, Fla., will send 136 homebred juveniles through the auction ring on Monday in an event that has become a staple of the Florida juvenile sale circuit and of Adena's marketing program.
"People come here, see the facilities and how the horses are handled and treated - it's a great selling point," said Mark Roberts, manager of Adena Springs South. "And it helps us make our stallions. We can showcase our progeny a little better, and that's basically the philosophy."
Padua Stables, the racing and breeding operation of Satish and Anne Sanan, has purchased the former Bluegrass Heights Farm near Lexington, Ky., and will move its operations to the 275-acre property.
The farm was previously owned by Horace Davis III, his wife, Kathi, and his mother, Marian Davis. The property is adjacent to Three Chimneys Farm, which will operate the farm on behalf of Padua, according to the Sanans.
Churchill Downs Inc., the owner of Churchill Downs, Arlington Park, Calder Race Course, and Fair Grounds, had net income of $15.7 million in 2007, or $1.14 per share, according to financial documents released late Thursday.
The 2007 result is nearly half of the net income Churchill posted in 2006, when insurance payments from damage sustained by Fair Grounds in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 generated nearly $20 million to the bottom line.
Racing commissions in Indiana and Delaware voted on Tuesday to begin to enforce restrictions on the use of anabolic steroids beginning this spring. The two states are among only a handful of racing jurisdictions that are expected to enforce anabolic-steroid rules this year.