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Four years ago, Goffs Chief Executive Henry Beeby made a resolution for the company’s flagship Orby sale: to focus on quality. The new strategy was put into play the following year, and since 2012 the Goffs Orby yearling sale has gone from strength-to-strength, with improvements in gross and average year-on-year. In 2012, despite 32 fewer...
by Jessica Martini and Brian DiDonato The Keeneland September Yearling sale resumed Friday after a one-day hiatus with a strong opening to the auction’s Book 2. Trainer Bob Baffert, as agent, signed for the session’s top-priced lot, going to $700,000 to secure a colt by Uncle Mo (hip 942) from the Taylor Made Sales Agency...
Super Majesty (Super Saver) makes her highly anticipated stakes debut in Saturday evening’s GIII Dogwood S. at Churchill Downs. Tabbed as a ‘TDN Rising Star’ after posting a 6 1/4-length debut win at Santa Anita May 24, the LNJ Foxwoods colorbearer beat up on optional claimers by 15 1/4 lengths at Los Alamitos July 5,...
I’m a Chatterbox (Munnings) has been given the nod as the 3-1 morning-line favorite in a loaded renewal of the GI Cotillion S. at Parx Saturday. Disqualified from first and placed second in Saratoga’s GI Coaching Club American Oaks July 26, the GII Fair Grounds Oaks heroine finished 1 1/4 lengths adrift the front-running Embellish...
Last term’s GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile hero Texas Red (Afleet Alex) will not race again this season due to a cannon bone bruise. The injury was discovered through a nuclear scan that was run after the bay finished a disappointing fifth in the GI Travers S. Aug. 29. “After shipping Texas Red to Lexington for...
On Sunday, Aug. 2, things came full circle for Jaime Roth. The 35-year-old, who runs the upstart LNJ Foxwoods with her parents, Nanci and Larry Roth, watched as their first-ever starter at Saratoga, a 2-year-old filly named Nickname (Scat Daddy), stepped into the starting gate for the day’s second race. Entering the stall directly next...
After three days of selling, Keeneland September Book 1 totals looked much the same as last year’s four-day Book 1. There were 5% fewer catalogued in Book 1 this year (724 vs. 762) and 7% fewer sold (443 vs. 473). The RNA rate rose from 27.3% to 30.9%, but with fewer withdrawals the clearance rate...
by Jessica Martini, Brian DiDonato and Justina Severni Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale concluded its three-session Book 1 Wednesday with a half-dozen million-dollar sales and figures continuing on par with 2014. In a dramatic bidding duel, Mandy Pope outlasted Kaleem Shah, sitting alongside trainer Bob Baffert and Bernie Schiappa, to secure the sale’s top-priced lot, going...
Owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum will reportedly move this year’s G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. winner Postponed (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) from trainer Luca Cumani to Roger Varian, according to Racing Post. According to that publication, Cumani is set to lose all 23 Sheikh Obaid-owned horses currently under his care. Cumani trained...
Jon Kelly’s Beautiful Morning (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), an eye-catching second-out maiden winner at York Aug. 21, will make the jump to Group 1 company for her third start in the G1 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket Oct. 9. Kelly purchased the 2-year-old filly, the first foal out of Date With Destiny (Ire)–the lone produce of champion...
by Jessica Martini, Brian DiDonato and Justina Severni The Keeneland September Yearling Sale continued apace Tuesday in Lexington, with figures holding largely in line with 2014. “I thought it was solid and steady all the way through,” commented Keeneland’s Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell. “From start to finish, it was steady.” For the session, 142...
On an otherwise mundane afternoon, on a day when Saratoga, Belmont, Del Mar, Santa Anita and Keeneland were all closed, it was an extraordinary day for the bettor Monday. Outside of perhaps the Breeders’ Cup days, there might not be a better wagering card this year than the one offered Monday at Kentucky Downs. On...