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Just days after he was represented by his eighth individual winner from his first crop, Spendthrift freshman sire Vekoma was responsible for a New Jersey-bred colt who was knocked down to Chris Gracie's Gracie Bloodstock for $150,000 to top Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training in Timonium, Maryland. While last year's inaugural sale featured a $500,000 topper, four six-figure horses and turnover in excess of $2.5 million, Tuesday's trade was considerably more subdued. From a catalogue that was approximately 20% leaner than 12 months prior, a total...

A total of 994 horses--980 2-year-olds and 14 horses of racing age--have been catalogued for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds In Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale, to be held Wednesday through Friday, June 12-14. The under-tack show and sale itself have both been moved forward by one day to facilitate inspection and travel time for those horsepeople attending the Belmont S. at Saratoga the week prior. Hips 1-350 are set to go under the hammer during the opening session and a similar number of horses will...

The catalogue for the Fasig-Tipton May Digital sale is now online at digital.fasigtipton.com and bidding is now open for the 110 horses of all ages that are on offer. The sale will close on Tuesday, May 14, beginning at 2 p.m. ET. The catalogue includes breeding stock in addition to horses of racing age, 2-year-olds and yearlings. Among the offerings are the first mares in foal to champions Elite Power (Curlin), Forte (Violence) and Up To The Mark (Not This Time), as well as Gunite (Gun Runner) Mage (Good Magic)...

Officials at Fasig-Tipton Company have announced an additional eight supplemental entries for its November Sale, to be held Tuesday, Nov. 7 at the Newtown Paddocks. Chief among them is Strong Incentive (Warrior's Reward--G G's Dolly, by Comic Strip), a stakes winner at three who has become an outstanding addition to the broodmare band at Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stable, having produced Grade III winner Highly Motivated (Into Mischief); Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}), victorious in this year's GIII Lake George S. and entered for Friday's GIII Valley View S. at Keeneland; and...

The 2-year-old filly Bound by Destiny (Lord Nelson), a two-time winner in non black-type stakes company at Delaware Park earlier this year, tops the list of 39 horses of all ages that are up for auction during the Wanamaker's December Sale. The catalogue is available at wanamakers.com. Progressive this season, Bound by Destiny won her debut by 14 lengths and added a Delaware allowance before taking the restricted Blue Hen S. and Small Wonder S. in her next two starts. Her current bankroll stands at $138,750. Other offerings include: Lofty...

The catalogue for Arqana's Vente d'Elevage, to be held Dec. 3-6 in Deauville, is now online. This year's sale features a total of 1,024 mares, fillies and foals and will also include dispersals from the legendary Haras du Quesnay and the Saudi entity Marbat LLC. The opening session of the auction will see the first 248 lots go under the hammer, including 40 stakes winners in and out of training. Sweet Lady (Fr) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), winner of this year's G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille, will be offered by trainer...

Bidding for the final phase of the Glen Todd Dispersal is now open at digital.fasigtipton.com. The catalogue features 35 in-foal mares and weanlings, all available for inspection at Todd Manor Farm, 2991 Leestown Rd., in Midway, KY, just outside of Lexington. Ballysax Bloodstock consigns all of the horses on behalf of the Dispersal. Twenty-one broodmares will be on offer in foal to the likes of American Freedom, Army Mule, Cairo Prince, Complexity, Echo Town, Enticed, Frosted, Good Magic, Knicks Go, Mo Town, Nyquist, Practical Joke, and Upstart. Fourteen weanlings are...

The catalogue for the Aug. 13-15 Arqana August Yearling Sale is online and can be viewed at www.arqana.com. Having already produced the likes of Angel Bleu, Hello You, Mangoustine, Rougir, Sealiway, Noble Truth, Meditate and Skalleti, the 2022 renewal is comprised of 313 yearlings which will be sold over three days, a departure from the two-day format previously. The sales times are as follows: Saturday, Aug. 13: 2p.m. - lot 1 to 145 Sunday, Aug. 14: 5.30p.m. - lot 146 to 230 Monday, Aug. 15: 5.30p.m. - lot 231 to...

Due to a forecast that calls for early-morning temperatures in the low 30s, officials at OBS have announced that the breeze show for their Winter Mixed Sale next Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 25 and 26, will begin Monday, Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. ET, one hour later than previously advertised. A total of 115 horses are cataloged in the sale's racing age section, with hips 251-329 in the original catalog. A printed supplemental catalog for hips 330-362 is now available on the grounds at OBS and can also be viewed...

by Chris McGrath NEWMARKET, UK -- The world certainly looks a different place from when these babies slithered into the straw. A less frightening one, thankfully, to many breeders, who have been relieved by a remarkable strength and depth in all levels of the market after the global economy absorbed the shock of Covid. So while the Tattersalls December Foal Sale opened in the customary low register, business on Wednesday unequivocally maintained the buoyant morale established in other sectors. Indeed, the clearance rate of 84% was a session record, and...

Officials at Keeneland have announced the addition of 25 horses to their upcoming November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 10-19. Fourteen horses have been supplemented to Book 1 of the auction, while 11 horses have been added to the Horses of Racing Age section of the sale. Added to Book 1, which features 227 horses, are: Hip 216, A Z Warrior (Bernardini), winner of the GI Frizette S. in 2010, offered by Eaton Sales, agent, in foal to Uncle Mo and whose track record-setting daughter Conch Pearl (American Pharoah) runs Sunday...

Mandy Pope made her first big splash at the 2021 Keeneland September Sale, going to $1.3 million for Gainesway's hip 331. The Lexington nursery acquired the colt's dam Danzatrice (Dunkirk) for $105,000 at the 2014 OBS April Sale and raced her to seven victories, including a trio at black-type level and a third-place effort in the GIII Groupie Doll S. Danzatrice is a half-sister to Eclipse Award winner Jaywalk (Cross Traffic), who is a maternal granddaughter of the late Unbridled's Song the same as Danzatrice. Mandy Pope paid $3.8 million...