Owners and agents looking for racing stock continue to be major buyers of weanlings during the ongoing Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, with two $550,000 purchases that topped the Nov. 5 session weanling offerings going to end users. Pinhooker and bloodstock agent Randy Hartley, with Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, bought the first of the two, a filly…
Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism will race next year before he retires to stud at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud, one of his owners, Don Alberto Stable, confirmed on social media Nov. 5. The decision to race in 2026 was widely expected after Coolmore did not mention Journalism in a Nov. 4 press release noting fees for its…
Claiborne Farm’s first-crop sire Silver State sired his first black-type stakes winner Nov. 2 when his son El Consistente won the Clasico Angel Tomas Cordero Jr. Stakes by 5 lengths at Camarero Race Track. The race, rated locally as grade 2 stakes, is the colt’s third win from four starts for owner Denian Stable. Forever…
The Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF) is proud to announce the appointment of Craig Bandoroff and Ken Freirich to its Board of Directors. Their addition marks another step forward in PDJF’s ongoing mission to support jockeys who have suffered catastrophic on-track injuries. Craig Bandoroff, founder of Denali Stud in Paris, Kentucky, and a former jockey, is…
The breed-shaping Dubawi and his champion sire son Night of Thunder headline Darley’s 2026 roster at fees of £350,000 and €200,000, respectively. It has been another excellent year for the Darley stallions as between them they have sired the winners of 19 group/grade 1s, 66 group races and 125 stakes contests including the Prince of…
Flavien Prat’s memorable week began at Del Mar with two Breeders’ Cup wins, which would be notable in its self, but the reigning Eclipse Award winner then flew back across country to ride Sunday’s closing day card at Belmont at the Big A where he set a NYRA track record for wins with seven adding…
Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm went to $2 million for multiple stakes winner Justique during the Nov. 4 opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington. The 5-year-old Justify mare is out of the winning Bernardini mare Grazie Mille, dam of grade 1 winner and sire Mo Town and stakes-placed Champagne Lady, both by Uncle Mo. KEENOV,…
Trainer Wesley Ward, acting as agent for an undisclosed client, contributed to a red-hot weanling market Nov. 4 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale when he went to $1.25 million for Hip 82, a Curlin half sister to Derby City Distaff Stakes (G1) winner Kopion . Bred in Kentucky by Tall Oaks Farm and The Curlin Syndicate, Hip…
Kilwin , winner of the Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, sold for $3 million to Rick Howard at the end of Book 1 of Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 4. The mare was consigned by Damian and Braxton Lynch’s Royal Oak Farm, agent for BBN Racing. Howard stated BBN Racing had partnered with…
Lush Lips , the winner of the Oct. 11 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1T), drew vigorous bidding Nov. 4 during Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale that ended with the hammer dropping for $3.7 million. Consigned as Hip 129 by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, Lush Lips was purchased by Dixiana…
