racing and breeding

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 143 offerings for its April Digital Sale, which includes a pair of broodmares closely related to Derby and Oaks contenders. Bidding is now open through Tuesday, Apr. 21, when the online event begins to close at 2 p.m. ET., the auction company said in a press release on Thursday. "With more than 140 catalogued, up more than a third from last year's catalogue, the April Digital Sale catalogue shows the continued strength and popularity of our digital platform," Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron said. "Offerings...

Keeneland has appointed Anne Archer Hinkle, owner and director of operations of her family's Hinkle Farms in Paris, Kentucky, to its advisory board of directors, the organization said in a press release on Friday morning. Hinkle Farms is a longtime successful consignor to Keeneland's September Yearling sale. Hinkle herself specializes in bloodstock research and acquisition, stallion matings and sales coordination. "We are delighted to welcome Anne Archer to the advisory board," Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said. "Her deep roots in the Thoroughbred industry paired with her leadership at...

The Fasig-Tipton October Digital sale closed Wednesday evening with broodmare Stifled Heiress (Munnings) as the topper when she was taken home for $470,000 and 240 horses sold for $4,947,500, according to a press release from the auction company on Wednesday. Offering horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares, yearlings, and weanlings, the online sale closed over two days with Stifled Heiress (hip 242), who is in foal to Leinster, going to Pursuit of Success LLC from the consignment of SGV Thoroughbreds, agent. The daughter of Munnings is already the dam...

With a $10,000 prize to the winner, the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award named its semi-finalists, the competition said in a Thursday release. Inaugurated in 2006 by the late philanthropist and global executive Tony Ryan, and sponsored by his family's Castleton Lyons Farm near Lexington, Ky., the award honors the best writing related to the Thoroughbred industry published in 2023. Three finalists will be revealed this summer, with the winner announced during a reception at Castleton Lyons later in the year. The semifinalists are (in alphabetical order, by author name):...