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GALILEO COLT TOPS RECORD BOOK 1 By Emma Berry and Kelsey Riley Wednesday’s top-end trade may have been dominated by Darley-sired yearlings, but the reigning champion sire Galileo (Ire) was back in his familiar spot at the head of the table on the final day of Book 1 when a half-brother to G1 King George...
One prominent name on the sales sheets this year at Keeneland is Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Thani’s Al Shahania Stud. By the end of selling Tuesday, Al Thani and his advisors, including the longtime Gainsborough Farm manager Dean Lavy, have signed for no fewer than five yearlings for a total of $1,805,000. Included was...
Ernie Semersky admitted he was waiting for just the right time to purchase an offspring of Tapit for his Conquest Stables. That time came Tuesday at Keeneland when Semersky, sitting alongside partner Dory Newell and trainer Mark Casse, went to $700,000 for a gray colt by Gainesway’s super sire. “We’ve been waiting for one that...
Whisper Hill Farm’s Mandy Pope, standing out back beside advisor Todd Quast, came away with the second highest-priced filly during yesterday’s session, a Tapit granddaughter of Winning Colors (Caro {Ire}) who, off a timely update over the weekend, brought $7000,000. The pretty gray filly is the second foal of Silver Colors (Mr. Greeley), the final...
Venezuelan trainer Gustavo Delgado signed for a $750,000 Bernardini colt and $250,000 Speightstown filly during Monday’s opening session (story), and was back at it yesterday as he scooped up a Tapit filly (hip 314) for $700,000 and a Tiznow colt (hip 361) for $300,000. Both yearlings were consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency. Dominant in...
It was back at the 2008 September Sale that celebrity chef Bobby Flay, looking to ramp up the pedigree power of his racing stable, purchased a Medaglia d’Oro yearling filly later named Super Espresso. The transaction was anything but routine. The filly was originally knocked down to British connections for $1.1 million, but within hours,...
The Coolmore contingent continued its market domination for top sons of Claiborne resident War Front yesterday as M.V. Magnier stretched to $1.3 million for hip 228, a grandson of MGISW Educated Risk (Mr. Prospector) consigned by Craig and Holly Bandoroff’s Denali Stud, Agent XXIV. Out of the unplaced A.P. Indy mare Score, the bay is a...
With $70-million in the coffers after the first two days of Book 1 (up marginally from last year), there have been 19 sires which have had five or more yearlings listed as sold. Gainesway’s Tapit is still almost $3-million clear of Candy Ride on the TDN YTD General Sire List (click here); he had the...
Mandy Pope of Whisper Hill Farm stared down the determined duo of trainer D. Wayne Lukas and owner Willis Horton to acquire a colt by Unbridled’s Song for a sale-topping $1.6 million during Tuesday’s second session of the Keeneland September sale. Lukas and Horton were sitting in the pavilion as Pope did her bidding out...
Strong selling continued during day two of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale Tuesday, which was highlighted by significant rises in median and average price and a $1.6-million sale and session-topping Unbridled’s Song colt. Median price for the 121 yearlings sold Tuesday was $280,000, representing a 40% increase from last year’s corresponding session and yielding a 25%...
Hip Sex Sire Dam Price ($) 202 filly Distorted Humor Rock Candy 310,000 B-Fred W Hertrich III & John D Fielding (KY) Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent CXXVI Purchased by Shortleaf Stable Fred Hertrich III went to $160,000 to acquire SW & GSP Rock Candy (Mineshaft) in foal to Dixie Union at this auction house’s...
Despite only being founded in 2012, the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has steadily grown and gained the support of people and organizations from all facets of the Thoroughbred industry who share a common goal of caring for Thoroughbreds after their racing days are over. In the words of Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Executive Director James Hastie, the...