Glen Todd

The Fasig-Tipton Digital Sales calendar for the remainder of the year will include an August Digital Sale (Aug. 25-30); Glen Todd Dispersal, Final Phase (Sept. 22-29); October Digital Sale (Oct. 6-11); and December Digital Sale (Dec. 8-13). The August, October, and December Digital Selected sales will focus on racehorses and quality breeding stock, while the Glen Todd Dispersal Final Phase will primarily feature the remaining breeding stock of the late British Columbia Thoroughbred industry fixture. "The December Digital Selected Sale will be a larger sale and one to plan for,"...

An unraced 2-year-old filly by Street Sense (hip 1) topped the first phase of the dispersal of the Estate of the late Glen Todd--conducted on Fasig-Tipton's Digital Platform--when selling for $200,000 to NJP Racing. Named Adiva, the dark bay filly is out of Black Diamond Girl (Hard Spun), a half-sister to graded winner Big Truck (Hook and Ladder) and graded placed Logic Way (Freud). She was purchased by Todd's North American Thoroughbred Horse Company for $230,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale. Adiva has been working up to two furlongs...

Bidding for Phase I of the dispersal of the Estate of Glen Todd is now open at digital.fasigtipton.com. This first phase of the dispersal includes horses of racing age, 2-year-olds in training and yearlings. Pegasus Training Center will be acting as agent for the dispersal. A fixture on the racing scene in British Columbia, Canada, John Glendon 'Glen' Todd passed away Mar. 27 at the age of 75. Todd was involved with Thoroughbred racing for the better part of 50 years and since 2006, campaigned nearly 50 black-type winners in...

by Nigel Reid The memory of what COVID-19 restrictions did to Canada's racing industry during the past 18 months, allied to the looming spectre of the troubling new variant, has done little to dispel the general uncertainty surrounding the sport north of the 49th parallel. However, if the results of what was a truncated season are to be believed, there is cause for optimism over the manner in which the sport, especially at the country's flagship Woodbine facility in Toronto, bounced back in 2021. Indeed, rumours of Canadian racing's demise...