CategoriesNews SportsTattersalls Ireland stages its final auction of the year Nov. 14 when the focus quickly switches to the flat and the Sapphire Sale of foals, yearlings, and breeding stock. Tally Ho Stud’s first crop sire Starman has enjoyed popularity with purchasers at preceding yearling sales and one of the potential gems Thursday is Graigue Stables’ […]
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CategoriesNews SportsKeeneland has supplemented 10 horses—including Fleet Street , who is coming off a six-length victory; grade 3-placed stakes winner Tripolina ; and stakes winner and recent Keeneland allowance winner Determined Kingdom —to the Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale Nov. 14. A total of 234 horses have been cataloged to the single-session auction, which will begin at […]
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CategoriesNews SportsArrowfield’s Jon Freyer will be back where it all began at the Kentucky breeding stock sales this week trying to replicate the magic that led to his breeding of Switzerland, winner of the Nov. 2 Coolmore Stud Stakes (G1) at Flemington. Saturday’s stallion-confirming triumph in the 1,200-meter event for the expensive Chris Waller-trained colt culminated five years […]
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CategoriesNews SportsReeves Thoroughbred Racing went to $475,000—the highest price of the day—for a colt by McKinzie Sept. 16 during the seventh session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The colt is out of the Smart Strike mare Ruby Trust . Hip 2197 was bred in Kentucky by Gainesway Thoroughbreds, and also consigned by Gainesway. McKinzie is off to […]
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CategoriesNews SportsKeeneland’s sales ground have been buzzing with optimism and traffic ahead of its September Yearling Sale, which begins Sept. 9 and runs through Sept. 21. If the energy generated by the strong start to the yearling sales season is any indication, the momentum is sure to carry through the sale, which features 4,407 horses cataloged. “I think everyone […]
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CategoriesNews SportsA Nyquist colt sold for CA$250,000 (US$185,376, CA$1=US$0.75) to top the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s (Ontario Division) Premier Yearling Sale Aug. 28 at Woodbine. Clay Scherer, agent, signed the ticket for the sale topper, the third foal out of the winning Street Cry (IRE) mare Mrs. Hudson. Consigned as Hip 88, the colt is a […]
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CategoriesNews SportsHarlee Honey , dam of English group 2 winner Black Forza , sold for $240,000 to Miss Vicky Stables during Keeneland’s August Flash Sale that closed Aug. 29. Black Forza, winner of the Richmond Stakes (G2) at Goodwood, is favored in his United States debut in the $1 million National Thoroughbred League Juvenile Sprint Stakes at Kentucky Downs Sept. […]
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CategoriesNews SportsMention Canadian breeding and thoughts immediately turn to the pint-sized patriarch Northern Dancer and all the wonderful horses his owner E.P. Taylor bred from him at Windfields in Oshawa: Nijinsky, Storm Bird, The Minstrel and so on. Nothing wrong with being associated with those titans of the turf, but there is more to the Canadian […]
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CategoriesNews SportsBreeding on a small scale is not for the faint-hearted. There are long, hard hours, high expenses, and disappointment is never far away. But on day one of the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale Aug. 27, the Knox family received the sort of result that not only makes the hardship seem worthwhile but also might […]
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CategoriesNews SportsIf at first you don’t succeed, try again, and for Arrowfield Stud it was third time lucky in securing Oakleigh Plate (G1) winner Marabi (I Am Invincible ) for AU$2.4 million (US$1,628,856, AU$1=US$1=0.68) Aug. 27 at the first edition of the August Magic Millions Virtual Sale. Having come up short at least twice this year in an attempt […]
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