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CASSATT (f, 3, Tapit–Justenufftime, by Giant’s Causeway) O-Fox Hill Farms Inc; B-Mt. Brilliant Farm LLC (KY); T-Larry Jones. *$300,000 yrl ‘12 KEESEP. Last Start: 1st Msw at FG Jan. 9. Cassatt (Tapit)–tabbed as a “TDN Rising Star” off the strength of a jaw-dropping maiden win at Fair Grounds most recently Jan. 9 (video)–is on the comeback trail. ...
One thing’s for certain–that the Cheveley Park Stud team will never forget the 2014 Royal Ascot meeting. On a human level, managing director Chris Richardson and his wife Annie were rewarded for decades of generous service to Cheveley Park Stud in particular and to the industry in general by being asked to be part of...
Career Score for Welkers Fasig-Tipton vice president of sales Bayne Welker, Jr. and his wife Christina, who maintain a commercial broodmare band of five head, enjoyed their biggest sales success Monday at the July sale when a colt from the second crop of Blame (hip 259) sold for $410,000 to the bid of Chuck Sandford....
EQUILOTTERY FOR DUMMIES When Brad Cummings announced Equilottery at the beginning of the month, we all knew we were for it, but a lot of us who don’t pay much attention to lotteries didn’t really ‘get it’. So I sat down with Brad when I was in Lexington a couple of weeks ago and...
ARQANA SAVES THE BEST TO LAST By Emma Berry and Claude Beniada They say save the best to last, but in the case of yesterday’s second session of Arqana’s August Sale it was almost last as, five lots from the end of play, an Invincible Spirit (Ire) half-brother to G1 Irish Oaks winner Chicquita (Ire)...
In his final work before he resumes his racing career in the GII Pennsylvania Derby next Saturday, GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) drilled six furlongs in 1:13.80 at Los Alamitos Saturday morning. Freshened since his run at the Triple Crown ended with a fourth-place finish in the GI Belmont S....
A filly by Smart Strike lit up the board at Keeneland Sunday when Hill ‘n’ Dale’s Donato Lanni bid $700,000 to secure the yearling on behalf of a partnership of farm owner John Sikura and Bruce Lunsford. The dark bay filly (hip 1482), consigned by KatieRich Farm, is out of stakes-placed Distinctively (Awesome Again), a...
Though yesterday was Day 9 (Book 4, Day 1) of the Keeneland September sale, our review of the sale totals today covers the first eight days–the four days of Book 1 plus Books 2 and 3. After Tuesday’s Book 3, Day 2 session there were five days remaining of the sale, whereas last year there...
A total of 289 yearlings traded hands for a combined $6,626,500 during the 11th overall and lone Book 5 session of the Keenelend September Sale yesterday. The average of $22,929 represented a 31.9% increase from last year’s corresponding mark of $17,386; while the median rose from $12,000 a year ago to $17,000–a 41.7% gain. The...
Longtime horse owner and breeder Aaron Jones died Monday of heart failure at his home in Eugene, Oregon. He was 92. In tandem with his wife of 43 years, Marie, Jones campaigned or bred a bevy of top notch horses, chief among them was the Jones-bred, champion 3-year-old Filly and Older Mare Ashado (Saint Ballado),...
TORONADO TO TOUCH DOWN IN NEWMARKET By Kelsey Riley Sheikh Joaan of Al Shaqab Racing has firmly set his racing roots in France, quickly developing his stud farm, Haras de Bouquetot, while also campaigning the likes of last year’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) in that country, but the...
‘TDN Rising Star’ Top Billing (Curlin) was put back in training Sept. 1 after spending six months at WinStar Farm recovering from a cracked cannon bone in his right front leg. The injury was discovered Mar. 8 as he was walking back to barn following a routine half-mile workout at Payson Park in preparation of the...