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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more successful claim in the past decade than Blue Heaven Farm's Starship Jubilee (Indy Wind). Plucked for $16,000 from Jorge Navarro of all people in February of 2017 at Gulfstream, the now 7-year-old mare has taken trainer Kevin Attard on the ride of a lifetime, and scored her greatest...
It's an exciting season for Taylor Made Stallions with first-crop sire <a href="https://www.taylormadestallions.com/horse/not-this-time/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Not This Time</a> on a roll this year while Midnight Storm's first crop of yearlings are a success at the sales. Now, they welcome a new member to the roster in Larry Best's Grade II winner Instagrand. <a href="https://www.taylormadestallions.com/horse/not-this-time/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Not This Time</a> (Giant's Causeway), currently the...
Minutes before the start of Book 2 of the annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Director of Sales Operations Geoffrey Russell joins the TDN Writers' Room to recap Book 1 and discuss expectations for the remainder of the sale. The world-renowned Keeneland September Sale has been a long time coming this year. With the coronavirus pandemic...
GI Santa Anita Derby hero Honor A.P. joined his sire, Honor Code, in the stud barn of Lane's End Farm. We visited the new arrival and spoke with Bill Farish on his future at stud.
There was a flurry of activity at the end of Book 1, which ended up with more than a handful of million-dollar yearlings. With four of the day's nine million-dollar-plus horses selling in the final dozen or so hips to be offered, the second and final session of Book 1 of the Keeneland September yearling...
There was strong trade at the top end of the market at Keeneland September, with five yearlings selling for a million or more on day 1. While stringent COVID-19 protocols put in place to allow the world's largest yearling sale to be held at all may have dulled some of the electricity typically felt in...
Fasig-Tipton's two-day Selected Yearlings <a href="https://www.mcmahonthoroughbreds.com/showcase " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Showcase</a> concluded Thursday with solid enough trade-especially on flashier offerings-given the global uncertainty leading up to the first major yearling sale in the year of COVID-19. The auction, necessitated by the cancellation of the July, Saratoga and New York-bred sales, featured 348 transactions for gross receipts of $61,765,000 at an average...
The long-anticipated and delayed start to the 2020 yearling season is underway, and day 1 of the Fasig-Tipton Selected Session featured a $1.5 million <a href="https://lanesend.com/qualityroad " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Quality Road</a> filly. T he Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings <a href="https://www.mcmahonthoroughbreds.com/showcase " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Showcase</a>, a hybrid of the company's July yearling sale, Saratoga sale and New York-bred yearling sale brought about by COVID-19- induced rescheduling, kicked...
As far as marketing for a nascent, unorthodox racehorse ownership venture goes, you couldn't do much better than a horse carrying your silks into the Churchill Downs infield as the GI Kentucky Derby winner. That's what Michael Behrens experienced Saturday, as Authentic (Into Mischief), bought into by his MyRacehorse microshare partnership in June, fought off...
<a href="https://coolmore.com/en/america/stallion/practical-joke/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Practical Joke</a> won three Grade I races in New York before retiring to Coolmore's Ashford Stud. Now, the son of Into Mischief is seeing his first crop of yearlings hit the sales ring. Coming off a big weekend from Into Mischief and his son Goldencents, the first yearlings from <a href="https://coolmore.com/en/america/stallion/practical-joke/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Practical Joke</a> are hitting the market...
Racing suffered an incredible loss in June with the death of the superstar racehorse and young sire Arrogate. As his first yearlings come to market, we reflect on his legacy with Juddmonte's Garrett O'Rourke and his jockey Mike Smith. Arrogate's first book of 143 mares, a who's who of some of the top breeding stock...
GI-winning son of <a href="https://gainesway.com/stallions/tapit/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Tapit</a> Cupid and juvenile champion Classic Empire are both seeing their first crop of yearlings enter the sales ring in the coming weeks. We checked in on the two sires at Ashford Stud. Three of Ashford Stud's Grade I-winning stallions will be in the limelight in the coming weeks as they are...
