LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale concluded its five-day run in Lexington Friday with results off slightly from a record-setting 2019 renewal which was held over four days and featured the breakout $5-million sale of champion Abel Tasmen (Quality Road). “To me, if you take one horse out of 2019, [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale concluded its penultimate session Thursday with the unraced Sam-Son Farm-bred filly Electricita (Ghostzapper) (hip 1402) bringing the top price of $180,000. The 4-year-old mare, who was purchased by Cecil Seaman on behalf of Jon Marshall, was one of three to bring six figures during [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale continued with a session of steady trade Wednesday and a colt by Uncle Mo causing some early fireworks when selling for $400,000. Gabriel Duignan's Springhouse Farm purchased the pinhooking prospect, who was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency on behalf of breeder Mike Abraham. [...]

Keeneland kicks off the 2020 sales season with a five-day renewal of its January Horses of All Ages Sale in Lexington Monday, with bidding slated to begin at 10 a.m. Temperatures are expected to be unseasonably warm during sales week and Keeneland officials hope the action inside the pavilion matches the weather outside. “There haven't [...]

When the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale catalogue was published, Inflamed (Unusual Heat)'s first foal was only an unplaced 3-year-old, but when the mare went through the sales ring last month, Mo Forza (Uncle Mo) was a graded stakes winner. The 9-year-old mare was purchased by Craig Bernick's Glen Hill Farm for $170,000 and Bernick [...]

Laddie Liam (Golden Lad), who topped the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Sale when purchased by the Green family's D J Stable for $450,000 earlier this month, will miss an expected start in Wednesday's Jerome S. “He shed a frog in his foot and he had a little bit of a tender frog and it's just not [...]

Tom Amoss made two trips to the winner's circle at Fair Grounds Sunday after impressive victories by a pair of juveniles. First up, Nicole Lyvere's Pranked (Into Mischief) went wire-to-wire to take her 1 1/16-mile turf debut by 4 3/4 lengths (video). “We were really pleased with Pranked today,” Amoss said Sunday evening. “She's a [...]

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale, featuring the dispersal of Joseph Besecker's racing and breeding stock, will be held Tuesday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium.   The auction begins with 230 catalogued weanlings, yearlings and broodmares and is followed by a further 137 horses of racing age. “This an exciting sale from a number [...]

In the midst of his best year at the races to date, owner Joe Besecker has decided to disperse his breeding and racing stock, with the majority scheduled to go through the sales ring at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale Tuesday in Timonium, Maryland. The founder, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania-based Emerald Asset [...]

Grade I winner Eight Rings (Empire Maker), originally expected to make his next start in Saturday's GII Los Alamitos Futurity, will skip the 1 1/16-mile race and will instead point towards the Feb. 9 GII San Vicente S., trainer Bob Baffert confirmed to TDN Tuesday. Baffert said the timing of the San Vicente would be [...]

Andie Biancone and Limelight Stables Corp.'s Sole Volante (Karakontie {Jpn}), who is now two-for-two on the turf after an impressive last-to-first victory in the Pulpit S. at Gulfstream Park Saturday, may move to the dirt for his next start, according to trainer Patrick Biancone. “We may go dirt one time,” Biancone said Tuesday. “If we [...]

David Ingordo was busy buying juveniles this past spring on behalf of a newly formed racing partnership and, by the final 2-year-olds in training sale of the season last June, the bloodstock agent had purchased six fillies in the name of Belladonna Racing. The sextet, now under the care of trainer Cherie DeVaux, have gotten [...]