Mauro Lucas and Nathan McCauley hit a pinhooking home run at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale when they sold the top-priced filly (Hip 2597) of the Sept. 16 session for $535,000 to Winter Creek Stables. The pair purchased the Girvin filly for $65,000 as a short-yearling from the Mulholland Springs consignment at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Winter Mixed…
The strength of the market carried through the end of Book 4, with a colt (Hip 2469) by leading freshman sire Yaupon topping the Sept. 16 session of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale, selling for $560,000 to Mike McCarty. The colt was bred by Tom Hinkle, Henry Hinkle, and Robert Kessinger, and consigned by Hinkle Farms….
Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky. is pleased to announce the arrival of Major Blue, the final horse owned by legendary Hall Of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Raced by Lukas along with wife Laurie and their close friends, it was immediately clear that Major Blue was special to his owners when…
Notable Speech ‘s impressive victory in the Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T) highlighted a strong Turf Champions Day for Woodbine Entertainment. Turf Champions Day featured three Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In races. All three races were held on Woodbine‘s inner turf course for the first time due to the E. P. Taylor Turf Course renovation…
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 280 entries for its Saratoga Fall Mixed sale, to be held Oct. 14 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The sale will be conducted in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and begin at 10 a.m. “Saratoga Fall is New York’s breeding stock sale,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. “There are nearly 230 weanlings…
Graded stakes action from Churchill Downs and Woodbine this past week did little to alter the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll. The leading 10 horses in the poll from week 34 remain unchanged relative to week 33. The latest poll covers racing performances through Sept. 14. Again on top is Godolphin’s Sovereignty , the undisputed leader of…
Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Westerberg’s Precise put in a sterling performance Sept. 14 to deny stablemate Beautify by three-quarters of a length to win the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) at The Curragh in a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series race for an automatic position into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf…
Eve Johnson Houghton talked the talk pre-race of the Sept. 14 National Stakes (G1), and Zavateri walked the walk by battling like a gladiator under Charlie Bishop to deliver his trainer the second group 1 winner of her career and down the best juvenile Aidan O’Brien could throw at her in Gstaad . Johnson Houghton hailed…
The median price for a yearling in the sixth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, $150,000, is up nearly 40% compared with the same session last year. As that sixth session Sept. 14 marked the halfway point of the 12-session sale, that number seems to be a strong indicator that the record-breaking success we’ve…
Record days for the Haskell Stakes (G1) and Mother’s Day highlighted the 49-day Monmouth Park meet, the track’s 80th season, that concluded Sept. 14. The crowd of 41,876 for the $1 million Haskell on July 19 was the largest since 2015 and produced a record total handle for a non-Breeders’ Cup event of $21,999,962. It…
