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For those who thought they’d seen the star of the show on Tuesday at Goffs there was a surprise in store when Kilcarn Stud’s Raven’s Pass filly out of the 21-year-old sales queen Spirit of Tara (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) (lot 432) rocketed past the first-day high to top the Orby Sale at €2 million. Three...
Keeneland has catalogued 4,476 horses for its 2015 November Breeding Stock Sale to be held Nov. 2-13, just two days after the Oct. 30-31 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The catalog is currently available online and printed copies will go out Oct. 12. “The intention of hosting the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland is to bring greater...
Less than an hour into the morning’s trade at Goffs Tuesday, the day’s star package, a daughter of the champions Frankel (GB) and Alexander Goldrun (Ire) (Gold Away {Ire}), strode into the ring and stole the show with a €1.7 million price tag. Michael Wallace of China Horse Club was late into the fray for...
With nearly 350 horses in the stable at any given moment, it is rare to find a date on the calendar when Richard and Karen Papiese’s Midwest Thoroughbreds does not have a runner competing or set to compete. On opening weekend at Keeneland, the focus of the successful owners will be on the two homebred...
Empire Maker (Unbridled–Toussaud, by El Gran Senor), sire of multiple champion Royal Delta and Triple Crown winner American Pharoah’s sire Pioneerof the Nile, has been repatriated from Japan and will stand the 2016 breeding season at Antony Beck’s Gainesway in Lexington. The 15-year-old stallion, who was sold to Japanese interests in 2010, will stand at...
Willis Horton’s Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway–Charming, by Seeking the Gold), last year’s champion juvenile filly, has been retired from racing. The 3-year-old filly has been sent to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm while connections decide on breeding or auction plans. “You hate to see a champion retire, but it was the right thing to do,”...
Ireland is enjoying something of an Indian summer this week, ensuring a positive mood among prospective buyers and vendors alike as just short of 500 yearlings for the Goffs Orby sale have been scrutinized in the sun over the last few days. As highlighted by Bill Oppenheim in yesterday’s TDN, the Orby Sale aggregate has...
Kaleem Shah’s 2014 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Bayern (Offlee Wild–Alittlebitearly, by Thunder Gulch) has been officially retired and will take up stud duties next season at John Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms. “Bayern was a super talented horse,” said trainer Bob Baffert. “He had tremendous speed and carried that speed to win the Breeders’...
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) continued preparations for his career finale in the Oct. 31 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic with a five-furlong drill at Santa Anita Sunday. The sophomore covered the distance in 1:00.00 (video). “He went nice; he went very nice,” trainer Bob Baffert said after the work. “He was on...
There’s a lot to be said for market stability, and as others have commented in the last couple of days, the Keeneland September market can only be described as ’steady’. A look at the accompanying Weekly Sales Ticker confirms this: the gross for North America’s most important yearling sale finished up at $281,496,100, for 2,745...
My Meadowview Farm homebred Tin Type Gal (Tapit) nabbed Thrilled (Uncle Mo) in the final strides to win the GIII Miss Grillo S. by the length of her nose Sunday at Belmont Park. Settled in mid-pack as longshots Chinchilla Dust (Freud) and Look Who’s Talking (Cape Clanco {Ire}) set a measured pace up front, Tin...
After putting in one of the most spectacular performances of the season when defeating males in the GI Pacific Classic Aug. 22, Beholder (Henny Hughes) easily captured her third straight renewal of Santa Anita’s GI Zenyatta S. in what was the equivalent of a paid workout. With this victory, the two-time champion earned an all...