Hip 2266, a filly by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm’s Good Magic , and Hip 2302, a filly by Spendthrift Farm’s Omaha Beach, were the co-highest priced fillies at $400,000 Sept. 15 during the first of two sessions for Book 4 of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale. Hip 2302 is out of the Arch mare Carmel Beauty, who is a full sister…
The momentum carried into Book 4, when Alex and JoAnn Lieblong went to $500,000 for a colt (Hip 2263) by Maclean’s Music during the Sept. 15 session of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale. The Arkansas natives have campaigned a number of graded stakes winners over the years, including Telling, who took back-to-back editions of the Sword…
No stone is unturned when shopping for potential racehorses at a yearling sale, with every possible advantage weighed. One of the angles leveraged is a yearling’s broodmare sire, and through session six of the ongoing Keeneland September Yearling Sale, the late Bernardini leads the broodmare sire ranks by number of seven-figure purchases with six. Bernardini,…
Southern California trainer Sergio Morfin has been suspended for 22 days and fined $3,500 for two post-race methocarbamol positive test results in the 3-year-old filly Lady Dosia. The filly, a homebred racing for Karen Norton, first tested positive for the muscle relaxant following her racing debut May 16 at Santa Anita Park, where she finished…
Video Join hosts Louie Rabaut and Sean Collins for the 33rd episode of BloodHorse Monday, your weekly dose of Thoroughbred racing analysis and insights! In this action-packed installment: We recap the start of the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1) trails as Spice Runner wins the Iroquois Stakes (G3) and Taken by the Wind wins the…
British racing’s day of protest in Westminster last week certainly made an impression, not only through media coverage but also, apparently, in the corridors of power. Labor MPs were in short supply among the more than 200 people who gathered at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London Sept. 10 to hear passionate arguments for…
Racing Australia will go back to the drawing board this week after a bid to make four more NSW races group 1s—and upgrade more than 40 other events around the country without making downgrades—was rejected by the Asian Racing Federation’s Asian Pattern Committee. Australia’s black-type impasse continues as the move for a vast suite of…
A half brother to cover star and Prix Jean Prat (G1) victor Woodshauna is among the yearlings included in the strongest line-up yet for Arqana’s October Yearling Sale, which runs Oct. 21-25. The colt by The Grey Gatsby is one of 14 yearlings either out of group 1 winners or siblings to winners at the…
Chancer McPatrick, the multiple grade 1-winning juvenile by McKinzie , will stand stud at Eric and Tamara Gustavson’s Spendthrift Farm in 2026, the farm announced Sept. 14. An earner of $727,875 to date, Chancer McPatrick will make his final start in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 1. A stud fee will…
How is it that someone of relatively modest means who operates a family business in Albany, N.Y., has been a partner in four high-caliber runners since he first owned Thoroughbreds in 2011? Well, it is hard to believe good karma has not played a role in Lucas Stritsman’s uncommon success. His journey with Corms Racing…
