Maximum Bourbon
Promising allowance winner Maximum Bourbon (Maximum Security) topped the 2026 March Digital Sale which closed Tuesday evening with gross sales of $4,430,500 for 142 horses sold. The sale, which opened Thursday, March 19, included horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares--including mares with foals at foot--2-year-olds in training, 'short' yearlings, and a fractional interest in graded stakes winner Just Beat the Odds (Munnings). Maximum Bourbon (hip 5) sold for $400,000 to Agave Racing Stable to top the sale. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, consigned the 4-year-old gelding. A three-time winner...
Buyers looking for both domestic and international-quality talent need look no further than the Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale which opened for bidding Thursday. Maximum Bourbon (Maximum Security) (hip 5) will look to become the next Grade I winner to exit the platform. A 4-year-old gelded son of MGISW Maximum Security under the tutelage of trainer Joe Sharp, he broke his maiden by 7 1/2 lengths as the only first-time starter in a $50,000 maiden claimer at Churchill Downs in late November of last year. In his four starts since, he's...
Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 189 entries for its March Digital Sale, which may be viewed online here. Bidding is now open and will close Tuesday, March 24, beginning at 2 p.m. ET. "With nearly 190 catalogued, our March Digital Sale has grown by more than 50% over last year--highlighting Fasig-Tipton Digital's rapidly increasing popularity among sellers." said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. "Offerings include more than 100 horses of racing age, as well as broodmare prospects, broodmares--including mares with foals at foot--2-year-olds in training, and 'short' yearlings. We're also...
BUILT (c, 4, Hard Spun--Sea Garden, by Curlin) twice hit the board last season on Louisiana's Road to the Kentucky Derby, second and third in the GIII Lecomte Stakes and GII Risen Star Stakes, respectively, before missing the money in two subsequent starts. Sent to the shelf in early May after disappointing in the GII Pat Day Mile, he resurfaced Dec. 18 at this venue to wrap his '25 season with a win against allowance company. Tried on the turf last out Feb. 14 to kick off his 4-year-old campaign,...
5. PUBLISHER, CD-2nd, 11/20, 6 1/2f (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure-84 (2nd) (c, 3, American Pharoah--Indian Pride, by Proud Citizen) O-Gus King and the Estate of Brereton Jones. B-Brereton Jones (Ky). T-Steve Asmussen. J-Irad Ortiz Jr. This spring he was perhaps America's best-known maiden, finishing second in the GI Arkansas Derby to earn a spot in the GI Kentucky Derby starting gate. Nearly seven months later, he's still a maiden. Last week he was an odds-on runner-up in his return to maiden company, and now has been second, third or fourth...