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Amidst the fireworks at Fasig-Tipton Monday and early in yesterday’s opening session of Keeneland November, the China Horse Club was busy snapping up quality racing and broodmare prospects, and the operation took up the spotlight midway through the session yesterday when snapping up dual Grade I winner and GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff third Iotapa (Afleet Alex) for...
Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs remembers standing on a hill at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale in 1992 and being impressed by a 2-year-old Stop the Music filly from Bill Graves’s consignment. Liking her conformation and pedigree, Ingordo-Shirreffs and members of the Mayberry family, who she worked with, purchased the filly for just $45,000 on behalf of clients Jerry...
Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs remembers standing on a hill at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale in 1992 and being impressed by a 2-year-old Stop the Music filly from Bill Graves’s consignment. Liking her conformation and pedigree, Ingordo-Shirreffs and members of the Mayberry family, who she worked with, purchased the filly for just $45,000 on behalf of clients Jerry...
Egg Drop Makes Two for Bridlewood… Bridlewood Farm, purchased by Leslie and John Malone last summer, is building a top-class broodmare band and took another step in that direction with the $1.9-million purchase of Grade I winner Egg Drop (Alphabet Soup). The gray mare sold at Keeneland November Tuesday in foal to leading sire Tapit. She was...
John Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm knows something about selling well-pedigreed weanlings at Keeneland November. Back at the 2003 renewal, Hill ‘n’ Dale sold Serena’s Cat, a Storm Cat granddaughter of Serena’s Song, to Dell Ridge Farm for $1.4 million. That was the co-highest price for a weanling filly that year and still ranks as...
by Emma Berry Protectionist (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) posted one of the most impressive performances in modern Melbourne Cup history to claim Australia’s most famous race by four lengths–the widest winning margin since Rain Lover’s record eight-length triumph in 1968. Shunted towards the back of the 22-runner field after early interference, the Andreas Wohler-trained colt was forced...
After a rock-and-rolling night across town, the 71st annual Keeneland November Sale picks up the breeding-stock baton this morning in Lexington with the first of 11 uninterrupted sessions. Tuesday and Wednesday’s Book 1 sessions begin at 11 a.m. Sessions for the remainder of the sale begin at 10 a.m. A total of 4,027 horses have...
Gainesway’s Antony Beck struck for the second top-priced weanling during Monday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale, going to $400,000 to secure the first foal out of the Darby Dan Phillips Racing Partnership’s multiple Grade I winner Winter Memories (El Prado {Ire}). Selling as hip 65, the chestnut colt is by the late Street Cry (Ire) and was consigned...
Longtime friends Peter Fluor and K.C. Weiner have already experienced success together in the oil and energy industries, and the Texas-based duo are surely hoping their good fortune will carry over to the racing industry after going to a cool $1 million for recent GII Thoroughbred Club of America S. winner Leigh Court (Grand Slam)...
The 13-year-old Night Lagoon (Ger) (Lagunas {GB}) was herself a Group 3-winning 2-year-old, but she experienced her finest hours on the track by way of her champion son Novellist (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}), winner of four Group 1s in four different countries including the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. and G1 Grand Prix...
Loooch Racing Stable’s Ron Paolucci said last week on TVG that he hoped his 3-year-old filly Ria Antonia (Rockport Harbor) would win the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff and, after shipping to Fasig to sell, fail meet to her reserve. In the end, Paolucci didn’t get his wish, but really, the consolation prize wasn’t all that bad. Ria...
It’s been a whirlwind five weeks for Pete Bradley and the other owners of Dayatthespa (City Zip). The Chad Brown-trained 5-year-old won the GI First Lady S. at Keeneland Oct. 4, then returned to establish herself as the prohibitive favorite for champion turf female with a stylish wire-to-wire win in the GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Turf. Last...