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The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale continued Thursday with the first of two Book 2 sessions and a competitive day of selling that largely mirrored last year’s corresponding results. A pair of weanlings stole the spotlight, with Brian Graves, bidding on behalf of Clear Ridge Stables, going to a session-topping $850,000 for a colt by...
These days, getting a season to War Front is a little like finding a golden ticket in a chocolate bar. Rare, but potentially lucrative. So when one of the best mares from John Mayer’s Nursery Place hemorrhaged while foaling and was unable to make a date with the Claiborne stallion last spring, it could have...
English raider Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}) adds a great deal of intrigue to Saturday (Australian time)’s G1 Darley Classic, as he attempts to win the race named for the farm to which he will retire to stud when his racing days are over. But first things first. A winner of 10 of his 19 career...
A filly by Malibu Moon shot to the leader board of Thursday’s third session of the November sale when selling for $750,000 to bloodstock agents Alex Solis and Jason Litt. The duo were purchasing the weanling on behalf of an undisclosed New York-based client. Consigned by VanMeter Sales, Agent III, the chestnut weanling (hip 690)...
How’s this for a quick return on investment: the Machmer Hall principals purchased Hitch Village (Old Trieste) earlier this year at the Fasig-Tipton February Sale for $40,000, and yesterday sold the foal she was carrying–a colt by Kitten’s Joy–for $250,000, a return of more than 600% in nine months. Chester Valley Farm purchased the colt, who was...
Guard the Lines (War Front) will be heading to South Africa for a date with the country’s multiple champion Variety Club (SAf) (Var) after selling for $400,000 during Thursday’s third session of the Keeneland November sale. “We’re standing Variety Club next year and she is one of the mares who has been bought to get covered...
Mandy Pope, who purchased the Keeneland November topper Aloof (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) for $3.9 million Wednesday, may have left the sales grounds Thursday, but she still made her presence felt when bidding via phone to landHummingbird Hill (Tapit) for $450,000. The 4-year-old mare was consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent, and sold in foal to GI Breeders’...
Corine Barande-Barbe hopes to return to Ascot with Cirrus Des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}) on Qipco Champions Day next year, regardless of whether the Berkshire track employs covers over the whole of the track before the showpiece fixture. The meeting’s spot in mid-October leaves it open to very soft ground, as was the case this year,...
by Aisling Crowe Forty years on from the Rumble in the Jungle, racing has its own titanic tussle that will have fans in multiple time zones setting alarm clocks or staying up late. The clash of the flying horses is on as Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}) has been given the go ahead for a heavyweight...
Editorial by Michele MacDonald, Photos by Mathea Kelley Flanked by a delegation including Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and the top three Kentucky Racing Commission officials, The Jockey Club Chairman Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps told delegates of the 48th International Conference of Horse Racing Authorities Oct. 6 that North America must end the use of drugs...
By Jerry Brown (Editor’s note: There has been much back-and-forth comment since Jerry Brown’s op/ed, An Immodest Proposal, appeared in Friday’s TDN. It was quickly followed by a reply by Barry Irwin Saturday, Racing: Sport or Business. ) Today, we let Jerry have the last word.) Before I respond to Barry Irwin’s comments, I have to pay my...
by Sue Finley Seventy French policeman descended upon the town of Nonant-le-Pin yesterday morning at 3:30 to evacuate the protestors who have been blocking the entrance to a vast waste dump in the heart of horse country in Normandy, France, according to an alert from Jour de Galop. The site, operated by Guy Dauphin Environment...