Today's Edition

A colt by Lane's End's popular young stallion Union Rags and consigned by Larry and Karen Doyle's KatieRich Farms fetched a final bid of $250,000 to top Thursday's 10th session of the mammoth Keeneland September Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. With three days of trade remaining, some 2,259 horses have been reported as sold for gross receipts of better than $368 million, already the fourth-highest turnover in the history of the September sale. At the close of trade Thursday, the average price rested on $163,021, while the median sits at $85,000....

This year's Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy--Stage Magic, by Ghostzapper) was moved from WinStar Farm to Coolmore's Ashford Stud on Monday after it was announced that the big chestnut had been sold by a WinStar-led partnership to John Magnier's Irish-based powerhouse, which also stands 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Rumors of a pending sale of Justify's breeding rights had been floating since the Preakness, when Darren Rovell of ESPN was the first to write about it and the dollars involved, which he reported over the summer as $60...

When Old Glory (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) ran out an eye-catching winner in a 'TDN Rising Star' performance on debut at Naas on Wednesday evening, he got Zayat Stables--of American Pharoah fame--off to a perfect start in Ireland. "That was our first runner ever in Ireland, so to have him be a winner in our silks was very exciting," said Justin Zayat, president and chief executive officer of racing and bloodstock for the stable founded by his father, Ahmed Zayat. Zayat Stables races the 2-year-old colt in conjunction with the Coolmore...

Redpender Stud near Gowran in Kilkenny is home to Jimmy Murphy and his family and it is a farm that has also been the home at one stage or another to a number of future stallions, champion 2-year-olds, Group 1 winners and sale toppers under both codes of flat and National Hunt racing. These statistics have emanated from a broodmare band of never more than 10 mares. TDN's Daithi Harvey caught up with Murphy to discuss his yearling drafts coming up at Tattersalls Ireland, Goffs Orby and Tattersalls Book 1,...

Old Glory (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) began the seven-furlong Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Naas the 6-4 favourite based on a number of factors, with one of them being the fact he was the 2017 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale topper at €1.6million. Racing in the Zayat Stables silks, the bay who is owned in partnership with Sue Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith broke well before being positioned just off the pace by Donnacha O'Brien. Moving smoothly to the front with a furlong remaining, he eased clear of Erich Bloch...

Undefeated recent GI Test S. winner Dream Tree (Uncle Mo--Afleet Maggi, by Afleet Alex) will be offered as a racing or broodmare prospect in the Taylor Made consignment at the upcoming Keeneland November Sale. "We are really excited about running Dream Tree in the Breeders' Cup," said Tom Ludt, head of U.S. operations for owner Phoenix Thoroughbreds. "She showed her class last month at Saratoga [with her win in the GII Prioress S.], coming off a layoff and just accelerating down the lane like she did." He continued, "It is...

Peter O'Callaghan sells horses. That is to say, he gets them sold. Not because of any kind of unusually slick sales pitch, or complimentary coffee and cookies at the Woods Edge barn. He gets them sold for two reasons: first and foremost, because of an innate eye for the arc of development implied in the weanlings he examines every winter; but also because he resists the kind of stubborn reserves that can leave a pinhooker with too many balls in the air. "Your clearance rate, in our business, is just...

Clear Height. The sign on the stable gate is perfectly descriptive, but we are not on the High Moor in Middleham, looking down from a vantage point above the Lambourn Valley, or atop Warren Hill. This is Epsom. It's a place known to racing fans the world over. Home, not to the oldest Classic but to the most significant, and to a racecourse which once teamed with every variant of human life in the Derby's heyday as Britain's foremost sporting outing. At the evocatively named Clear Height Stables is trainer...

A filly by Quality Road brought $420,000 from Jamie McCalmont, agent for Sarah Kelly, to top Tuesday's second and final session of Book 3 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Keeneland sold 271 yearlings for $19,603,400 during the eighth session of the marathon sale Tuesday. The average was $72,337 and the median was $50,000. With five sessions to go, Keeneland has sold 1,704 horses for $345,890,600, good for a cumulative average of $202,987 and a cumulative median of $130,000. Tuesday's session topper was produced by Chapel (Pulpit), an unplaced daughter...

It has been 10 years since Summerfield sold a million-dollar horse, and now they have had two in a space of just a few weeks, a $1 million American Pharoah colt at Saratoga, and a $1.8 million Curlin at Keeneland September. Ironically enough, the 10 years in between also marked the time when Andrew Vanlangendonck, son of Summerfield's owners Barbara and Francis, was away serving his country in the United States Air Force. Now that he's back at Summerfield full time, we caught up with him to ask about his...

The 2019 GI Pegasus World Cup card, to be held Jan. 26, 2019, will add a Grade I turf stakes to its docket, The Stronach Group announced Tuesday. The race, which will be run at 1 3/16 miles and known as the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational, will have a $7-million purse, with a $3-million share paid out to the winner. The Pegasus World Cup, meanwhile, will offer $9 million with a $4-million winner's share. "The appetite for a turf race is strong and the decision to include a premier...

Poet's Word (Ire) (Poet's Voice {GB}), the highest rated horse in Europe and joint second overall on the Longines World Rankings behind Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}), has suffered an injury and will not be seen in action again this year, mooting a potential appearance in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs in November. The Sir Michael Stoute-trained 5-year-old has been one of the stories of the season, beating Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the G1 Prince of Wales's S., before getting the better of stablemate Crystal Ocean...