Good Vibes Flow as The Saratoga Sale Shatters Records

Good Vibes Flow as The Saratoga Sale Shatters Records

On a record-breaking night for The Saratoga Sale. Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale, where both the million-dollar horses and champagne flowed, Fasig-Tipton will have to restock the bubbly. Fasig-Tipton gladly will take on that assignment after toasts followed the sale of 25 horses that reached $1 million or more at the sale Aug. 4-5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,…

Resolute Lands Into Mischief Colt for  Million

Resolute Lands Into Mischief Colt for $3 Million

Just past the midpoint of the final session of The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale, John Stewart’s Resolute Bloodstock went to $3 million for a son of Spendthrift Farm’s Into Mischief  . The colt consigned as Hip 178 by Gainesway, agent for Stonestreet Bred for Brilliance, is the second foal of the stakes-winning, grade 1-placed Bernardini…

Yulong Sends Carl Spackler to John and Thady Gosden

Yulong Sends Carl Spackler to John and Thady Gosden

Ambitious owners Yulong Investments continue to make a splash in the European racing scene after completing the purchase of the Aidan O’Brien-trained Royal Ascot winner Trinity College  and moving United States grade 1 winner Carl Spackler  to John and Thady Gosden. The top Australian-based racing and bloodstock operation, which has spent millions of pounds at…

Sierra Leone Up to Third in NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll

Sierra Leone Up to Third in NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll

Sierra Leone , the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner, is on the rise in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll. Exiting a come-from-behind victory in a hot-paced Whitney Stakes (G1) Aug. 2 at Saratoga Race Course, the Gun Runner   colt climbed in the latest rankings from eighth to third, trailing only 3-year-old Sovereignty …

Racing Hopeful for Reversal of Gambling Tax Change

Racing Hopeful for Reversal of Gambling Tax Change

Leadership looking out for the best interests of horse racing are expecting a recent tax change on gambling winnings that would be negative for horseplayers will be changed back to the previous standard. Speaking at The Jockey Club’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing July 31 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Shawn Smeallie, an industry…