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Northwest Stud Makes a Splash The Iadisernia family’s Northwest Stud, which enjoyed a profitable pinhooking spring at the juvenile sales, restocked with flair Monday at Fasig-Tipton July, going to a sale-topping $550,000 to secure a colt (hip 154) by Cowboy Cal. General Manager Alfredo Lichoa handled the bidding assignment on the yearling, who is a...
by Jessica Martini John Moores and Charles Noell’s Merriebelle Stables, which, in just two years of operation, has already been represented in the sale’s ring by the record-setting broodmare Immortal Verse (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), will be looking to add to its auction success when it makes its first foray into Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale...
EXPLOSIVE START TO ARQANA AUGUST By Emma Berry and Claude Beniada Set in the Normandy seaside town of Deauville, Arqana’s curtain-raiser to the European yearling season could not have a better backdrop, and action in the sales ring didn’t disappoint either, with two millionaire yearlings gracing the first select session. The day’s leading lady was...
Gary Barber’s Lexie Lou (Sligo Bay {Ire}) stamped herself as one of the top sophomores of the North this summer with three consecutive black-type wins, and she looks to keep that hot streak going in today’s GII Canadian S. at Woodbine. The 1 1/8-mile turf test is a “Win and You’re In” event granting the victor an...
Behind every Hall of Fame operation is a team of talented, dedicated horsemen and women. One of the people who makes Jerry Hollendorfer’s stable tick is Christina Jelm, a Kentucky-based bloodstock agent who does a little bit of everything for the renowned trainer. At September, that’s meant short-listing and purchasing horses for Hollendorfer and his...
The double digit gains seen in the first session of Book 3 Monday continued yesterday with improved total sales, average and median. This made Tuesday’s session the third consecutive session with increases in all three categories. Day 8 saw 298 yearlings sell for a total of $18,562,000, which is a 13.3% increase over last year....
France’s elite juveniles are beginning to build towards their all-important autumn targets, with today’s G3 Prix des Chenes at Longchamp the first pointer for the G1 Criterium International, and as usual it is to Andre Fabre that all refer as the record-holding trainer looks for an eighth edition. Of his pair, Rashit Shaykhutdinov’s De Treville...
Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby saddled the winners of six races–all juveniles–in England Monday, taking five races at Kempton and one at Leicester. The feat equaled the Godolphin record of wins in a day. In 2009, trainer Saeed bin Suroor twice won six races in a day for the operation. “It has been a good,...
A little over a year ago, Keith and Ginger Myers, who operate the Louisiana-based Coteau Grove Farms, announced that they would be paring back their racing operation in favor of a focus on becoming a leading breeder in the state, and a pair of Coteau Grove-breds topped the proceedings during Tuesday’s Breeders’ Sales Company of...
MUKHADRAM TO SHADWELL IN 2015 Sheikh Hamdan’s G1 Coral-Eclipse winner Mukhadram (GB) (Shamardal–Magic Tree {UAE}, by Timber Country) will be retired from racing at the end of the season and will stand at Shadwell Stud in England in 2015. Purchased as a foal by Shadwell for 190,000gns at Tattersalls December, Mukhadram was unraced as a 2-year-old and...
WIGGY WOW She may have the most unprepossessing name of all the best juveniles of 2014, but the formbook and time analysis states with concrete certainty that Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) is at or very near the top of the tree, and she arrives at Newmarket today to hammer that point home in the G1 Cheveley...
GO WITH THE FLOW Starting his sequence of 13 winners of the G2 Juddmonte Beresford S. in 1996, Aidan O’Brien needs one more to equal the record set by Dr Vincent O’Brien, and that seems likely as his trio for today’s renewal includes J “TDN Rising Star”J Ol’ Man River (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). Visually impressive when accounting for...