Warrendale Sales

After a decade at Four Star Sales as their director of bloodstock, Ashley Franz will join Warrendale Sales as a bloodstock sales associate, the group announced via press release. "Ashley started with Four Star when she was just out of college and has truly become a very accomplished horsewoman," said Four Star's Kerry Cauthen. "She will be sorely missed, both professionally and as a great friend to us all, but we couldn't be prouder of her accomplishments with us and those that are still to come in her future." Franz...

Trainer Brad Cox is not prone to any delusions of grandeur where it comes to the chances of 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Bishops Bay (Uncle Mo) against the likes of champion Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Nysos (Nyquist) and GII Clark Stakes hero Magnitude (Not This Time) in the G1 Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racecourse on Feb. 14. He also realizes that $20 million is a lot to play for and is keen to seize upon the opportunity that presents...

Bill Casner's Rafter C Ranch went to $260,000 to acquire Alisal (Uncle Mo), a 3-year-old stakes-placed filly, from Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale. The priciest filly or mare sold Tuesday, Alisal raced exclusively at Remington Park for trainer H. Ray Ashford, Jr., breaking her maiden in her second start Oct. 9 and adding an allowance win next out Nov. 15 before capping off her season with a runner-up effort in the Toby Keith Stakes Dec. 20. Consigned by Warrendale Sales as a racing or broodmare prospect, Casner seems fit to...

Another son (hip 45) from the first crop of Horse of the Year Flightline broke the seven-figure mark when Japan's Naohiro Sakaguchi went to $1,700,000 to secure the half-brother to GSW Promise Keeper (Constitution), SW/GSP Wicked Awesome (Awesome Again) and GSP War Stopper (Declaration of War). Bred by Rock Ridge Thoroughbreds, the colt was consigned by Warrendale Sales. His first dam is a half-sister to GI Lane's End Breeders' Futurity Stakes winner Great Hunter (Aptitude) while another half-sister produced MGSW/MGISP Owendale (Into Mischief). Rock Ridge purchased the mare for $200,000...

When Practical Joke and Life Is Good--both by Into Mischief and out of Distorted Humor mares--each racked up multiple Grade I victories and retired to major stallion farms in Central Kentucky, the cross they share surely earned a second look. After three 3-year-olds of 2025--Eclipse champion Citizen Bull, Patch Adams, and Tappan Street--added another five combined Grade I victories to that same cross in the last 11 months, anyone savvy enough to have a yearling on offer at Keeneland's September sale on the 'Midas Touch' nick looks positively inspired. Three...

A native Kentuckian, Brendan Jacobson always knew his heart would lead him into racing, but he wasn't quite sure how until he purchased his first broodmare in 2019. Now six years on and 20 broodmares in, Jacobson is looking forward to offering a City of Light half-sister (hip 357) to Grade I winner Vahva (Gun Runner) through the Warrendale Sales consignment during the second session of Book 1 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale next Tuesday. "She is a quality individual," Jacobson said of the yearling. "She's been a queen...

A colt by Constitution (hip 97), consigned by Warrendale Sales, Agent for Stonestreet Bred for Brilliance, brought an even $1,000,000 from Pedro Lanz who signed on the ticket on behalf of KAS Stables to become the seventh horse to break the million-dollar barrier during Monday's opening session at Saratoga. The colt is out of a full-sister to GSW Ballet Dancing (Medaglia d'Oro) who has already produced two winners from two to race.

A Good Magic colt out of a half-sister to the dam of dual Canadian champion Are You Kidding Me (Run Away and Hide), GSW & GISP Kehoe Beach (Omaha Beach), and SW & GSP Core Values (Honor Code) sold for $1.6 million to the Hudson family's Hoolie Racing Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Sold as hip 36 and signed for by Legion Bloodstock as agent, the dark bay colt out of the winning Alpha Zulu (Shanghai Bobby) was bred by Mesingw Farm, LLC in Kentucky and consigned to the...

The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, with a catalogue of 1,614 head, brings the curtain down on what has been a record-setting yearling sales season with its four-day run beginning Monday in Lexington. Bidding for each session begins at 10 a.m. Consignors are optimistic that the competitive market that has been prevalent from the season's beginning at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale, to the company's Saratoga sales, and to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale last month, will continue through its conclusion this week. "Coming off the way the prices were and...

LEXINGTON, KY - The Keeneland September Yearling Sale continued ahead of its 2023 edition as Book 3 concluded Sunday night with a colt by Maxfield leading the way when selling for $575,000. Through the two Book 3 sessions, 526 yearlings sold through the ring for a gross of $83,880,000. The section's average was $159,468--up 4.7% from a year ago--and the median was $130,000, an increase of 13.04%. Ten horses sold for $500,000 or more, compared to 13 hitting that mark a year ago. During last year's Book 3 section, 562...

by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, a record-setter during its last two renewals, opened with a power-packed start-to-finish session Monday evening in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion. "We won the first half," said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. "It was a really strong start to the opening session of the 2024 Saratoga yearling sale. We averaged over $500,000 tonight and the median was $400,000. Our RNA rate at an elite sale at 20% is pretty remarkable. We always aim for zero, but...

One of the most anticipated yearlings to grace the ring Monday evening in Fasig-Tipton Saratoga's opening session was Hip 57, a half-brother to breakout first-crop sire star Complexity by popular and well-supported first-year yearling stallion Charlatan. He didn't disappoint, hammering for $1.5 million to John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock, who had made no secret of his desire to purchase the colt over the weekend. Consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent for Stonestreet Bred & Raised, the chestnut colt is also a half to 2018 GIII Doubledogdare Stakes winner and 2016 GI Breeders' Cup...