Buoyant Trade Spurs Healthy Gains at Keeneland

By Brian Sheerin and Emma Berry NEWMARKET, UK - As expected, an international cast of buyers swept into action at Park Paddocks for the opening day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, with some of the leading lights heading to Japan, Australia and America after more than 15 million gns was spent on breeding prospects. It was the aptly-named…

Hanshen Tham has become one of the most recognisable faces on the bloodstock circuit in Britain and Ireland but that's not to say that many people know a lot about the owner-breeder and pinhooker. Instead, Tham prefers to go about his business quietly. This year was a big one for the 34-year-old. His family enjoyed its greatest success on a…

Many hands make light work. Or in this case, it was many feet and steps that allowed Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock to find and then secure the Sea The Stars (Ire) colt who topped the final session of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Wednesday at 425000gns. It was Juddmonte's Sam Guyette, shortlisting for the top bloodstock…

The top lot on the second day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale was the son of HAVANA GREY consigned by Kilminfoyle House Stud, who lit up the sales ring when selling for 425000 guineas to the bid of Stroud Coleman Bloodstock's Anthony Stroud with Qatari Mohamed Al Mansour a persistent underbidder. The Whitsbury Manor Stud bred…

Monday, October 9, 2023 at 2:31 pm |Back to: Queen Caroline, the dam of champion Forte, will sell at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale | Sara Gordon By The chances might be one in a million. The odds of campaigning a multiple stakes winner from the first yearling you ever purchase are certainly pretty long. But to have that horse go on and produce a…

Friday, September 8, 2023 at 12:55 pm |Back to: By With just around 100 homebred yearlings every year, WinStar Farm puts a particular importance on the Keeneland September Sale, this year selling four-fifths of their annual crop over 12 days starting on Monday, September 11. That importance could be about to pay off, as by all accounts the…

KY Downs To Offer Allowance Races for Keeneland Sales Graduates From the KY Downs Media Team / Jennie Rees: $250K allowance races for Keeneland September Sale grads return to Kentucky Downs on opening day, Aug. 31 For the second year, Kentucky Downs is offering a pair of $250000 allowance races restricted to 2-year-olds that went through the sales…

By Brigette Solomon, Harness News Desk This country's two biggest studs, Alabar and Woodlands, will be offering more than 100 of the 123 lots at the NZB Standardbred National Weanling Sales, which will be held at Karaka this Thursday (May 25). Sales newcomers Macca Lodge and Tardina Stud are other key players, with 14 and six. Of Alabar Stud's 52…

The close relatives of generations of Australasian racetrack harness racing stars fill the catalogue confirmed for the 2023 National Weanling Sale at Karaka on May 25. NZB Standardbred is delighted with the quality line up of 123 youngsters this Sale has attracted in just its third year.In a short time, the National Weanling Sale has produced…

The way this muscular colt has been turning heads at the yearling parades, he could be the most aptly named harness racing youngster at New Zealand Bloodstock's national standardbred sale in a few weeks. Brogden Lodge's Graham and Judy Bowen chose the name Turn O The Tide because he literally embodies their hopes for the future after a frustrating…

No getting away from it, the young stallions we assess today have already completed their service to many breeders. They've processed a debut crop of yearlings, often on an industrial scale, and many have obliged with the kind of averages that vindicate the familiar, self-fulfilling commercial cycle that so favors new sires: demand generating…

The stallions we assess today find themselves at the first major crossroads of their new career. Poor fellows, they're still a long way from having the chance to demonstrate whether they can actually produce runners. But that seems a pretty incidental consideration in the current marketplace, which has created a self-fulfilling cycle. Like it or…

While the general economic picture at the moment might not be conducive to free spending, the demand for bloodstock has never been greater. That has been evident at Tattersalls which has been reporting record turnover at its sales all year. The aggregate figures for the Guineas Breeze-Up (5.6m guineas), July (16.7m), October Yearling (199m), Autumn…

Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sales Ends With Robust Results From the Keeneland Media Team: Keeneland concluded its premier November Breeding Stock Sale on Wednesday with bullish results that reflected positive market trends: robust commerce among the world's deepest buying bench; exceptional offerings that yielded 13 lots sold for seven…

Midnight Bisou at $5.5 million, North America's highest-priced weanling lead auction Keeneland concluded its premier November Breeding Stock Sale on Wednesday with bullish results that reflected positive market trends: robust commerce among the world's deepest buying bench; exceptional offerings that yielded 13 lots sold for seven figures, led by…

Standardbred Horse Sales Company tops $44 million in gross at its yearling sale for the first time. by Ray Cotolo In the climb back from economic recession spurred by the pandemic shutdown, the Standardbred Horse Sales Company in Harrisburg saw a stabilization of growth in 2022 which propelled the yearling portion of the sale to an all-time…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Spendthrift Farm has announced stud fees for its roster of 27 stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm for the upcoming 2023 breeding season, led again by North America's reigning three-time champion General Sire, Into Mischief who will stand for $250000 S&N. Spendthrift has added four new stallions including 2022…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Spendthrift Farm has announced stud fees for its roster of 27 stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm for the upcoming 2023 breeding season, led again by North America's reigning three-time champion General Sire, Into Mischief who will stand for $250000 S&N. Spendthrift has added four new stallions including 2022…

The opening session of the 2022 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale blew away last year's record-breaking first session by more than $3.5 million. The gross was up 24 per cent and the average increased by 17 per cent. story by Dave Briggs, quotes by James Platz and Dave Briggs If last year's opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale was…

Economic crisis. What economic crisis? It didn't take long for the big bucks to flow at Tattersalls on Tuesday. The world may be sailing through turbulent and choppy waters but it seems the bloodstock industry, at least at the highest level, remains immune. Any early nerves of consignors who will offer more than 500 of the best bred yearlings in…

Early on during Monday's opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, a Quality Road filly set a hot pace for the day's trade, hammering to Claiborne Farm, agent, for $1.2 million. The filly, out of the Medaglia d'Oro mare Princesa Silvia, was bred by Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm. Pope is a familiar name in Keeneland September's…

Nest Could Be A Star In The Making; Undefeated Sy Dog Might Head To Royal Ascot; Brinkman Has Big Plans Old Homestead LESINGTON, Ky.-Lucky Seven Stable's Smile Happy is the 9-5 morning-line choice in a field of 12 3-year-olds entered in today's 98th running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) going 1 1/8 miles on the main track. $1 million…

This article first appeared in our Summer Yearlings supplement and is reproduced here as we count down to the annual highlight of the German sales season, the BBAG auction on Friday. You can read the whole supplement here The Jacobs family might have sold Newsells Park Stud but they remain one of the biggest players on the European bloodstock scene…

With the welcome return of New Zealand Bloodstock's popular winter mixed sale format, along with the prospect of a rejuvenated New Zealand racing industry on the back of the TAB's deal with global wagering giant Entain, weanling vendors are in a positive frame of mind leading into Friday's National Weanling & Broodmare Sale at Karaka. The one-day…