Today's Edition

LEXINGTON, KY - The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale entered its second week after a workmanlike session Sunday, which concluded the auction's two-day Book 4 section. Bloodstock agent Jason Litt made the day's priciest purchase, going to $300,000 to acquire the broodmare Ducru (Broken Vow) on behalf of Grandview, LLP from the Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency consignment. Hill 'n' Dale also sold the second-highest priced offering of the session when Dixon Enterprises purchased the racing/broodmare prospect Princessof the Nyl (Pioneerof the Nile) for $200,000. A colt by Kantharos (hip...

Lys Gracieux (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) pounced inside the final 50 metres and earned her first Group 1 tally in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Kyoto on Sunday. The Carrot Farm runner was sent off as the 9-2 third choice after being placed at the top level four times earlier in her career. The pacesetting Crocosmia (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) clung stubbornly to second a neck behind, while last year's winner, Mozu Katchan (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}) was three lengths back in third. The dark bay settled in midpack two...

The Week in Review An unraced horse named Coliseum (Tapit) worked four furlongs in :47 2/5 yesterday morning at Santa Anita. It was his fourth recorded public workout, and the word is out. The off-shore bookmaker Bovada has the horse at 20-1 in its latest winterbook wagering for the Kentucky Derby. It should come as no surprise that the colt is trained by Bob Baffert, but when it comes to the owner it's not one of Baffert's usual suspects. The horse is owned by and was bred by Godolphin. Godolphin...

When 'TDN Rising Star' Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) stormed to her third successive dominant win in the Nov. 2 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf, she ensured that her connections' experiment to import yearlings purchased at Tattersalls to race in the U.S. would go down as a resounding success. That part of the story has been well-documented. It is also worth reflecting on what this experiment means as a microcosm for the undeniable growth of grass racing in America. Owner Seth Klarman and trainer Chad Brown didn't need...

The European yearling market is positively booming. That's the inescapable conclusion when we examine the returns this year and compare them to the results going back as far as 2010. And it's not just the top of the market that is carrying the whole show, either. At every level from the elite end to the very bottom, there has been extraordinary growth. It is the kind of growth that would be the envy of almost any other industry. Year-in and year-out, vendors will always be disappointed not to get their...

Odanis Acuna, a veteran exercise rider for trainer Kenny McPeek, died early Saturday morning during a training accident at Churchill Downs. He was 42. The accident occurred shortly after the track opened for training when the unraced 2-year-old New York Harbor (Verrazano), with Acuna aboard, fell about a sixteenth of a mile before the finish line. Onsite emergency medical technicians who arrived on the scene to treat Acuna believe he died instantly, while New York Harbor sustained catastrophic injuries. "Today is a somber day," said Churchill Downs Racetrack President Kevin...

In September, Justify left WinStar Farm for a career at Ashford Stud after the undefeated Triple Crown winner was purchased by Coolmore. Two months later, he is on display for breeders and fans alike and has proven to be a popular draw during the Keeneland November Sale. We caught up with Adrian Wallace to see how the big chestnut was settling in. TDN: Justify has been here around two months now. He looks fantastic. How has he settled in? AW: He has settled in fine. We have been overwhelmed by...

   Watch Me (Ire) (Olympic Glory {Ire}) hit the board behind subsequent G3 Prix Miesque third So Unique (Fr) (Siyouni {Ire}) in her Oct. 20 unveiling going one mile at Saint-Cloud last time and stepped forward to shed maiden status in this stakes debut. Settled in third for the most part, she was caught in traffic in the straight and kept on resolutely once offered an opening at the eighth pole to claim a career high in game fashion.    Watch Me, who becomes the first black-type winner for her...

LEXINGTON, KY - The Book 3 section of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded Friday with continued demand for the quality offerings. A weanling colt by Into Mischief attracted the day's highest bid when selling for $300,000 to the pinhooking partnership Clear Ridge Stables, headed by Gainesway's Brian Graves. The second-highest priced weanling on the day was also by Into Mischief. A filly by the Spendthrift sire sold for $230,000 to Dudley Racing. "It's very expensive for the ones you like," Graves said of the weanling market. "You think...

My father-in-law, Robert P. Levy, was a larger-than-life character. Philanthropic, enthusiastic, a straight-shooter, and a true sportsman. I met Bob before I began dating Angela, his daughter and my future wife. With me having not grown up in the U.S. and he being a co-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, Bob took great pride in introducing me to his brand of Americana through the sport of baseball, showing me the strategy and science that had made it a national pastime. Of course, Bob also loved horse racing, and as a racetrack...

The first two New Bay (GB) foals to take their turn in a sales ring-and the only two by the stallion in the sale--were offered at the Tattersalls Ireland Flat Foal and Breeding Stock Sale on Friday, and they returned the top price for a weanling colt and filly, respectively. Lot 170 was the top lot with a pricetag of €60,000. The colt, the first foal out of Soteria (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), a daughter of the multiple stakes producer Roo (GB) (Rudimentary {GB}), was bought by Powerstown Stud. The other...

Expert Eye (GB) (Acclamation {GB}-Exemplify {GB}, by Dansili {GB}), the winner of last weekend's GI Breeders' Cup Mile, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at owner/breeder Juddmonte Farms's Banstead Manor Stud in 2019 at a fee of £20,000. Stud Director Simon Mockridge said, "We are delighted to announce the arrival of Expert Eye to Juddmonte Farms. He is the first British-trained winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile since 1994, further strengthening one of the most exciting young stallion rosters in Europe." "This precocious, athletic and well-balanced colt...