SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The sales barns were filled with shoppers Saturday morning and, with plenty of buzz around the state's racing and breeding program, optimism was high ahead of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale in Saratoga Springs. The…
Saratoga Maidens, Presented by Keeneland Bret Jones and his family have fond memories of breeding and racing Indian Pride (Proud Citizen), who carried the house colors for the late Governor Brereton C. Jones. Under trainer Chad Brown at the Spa…
By Emma Berry and Brian Sheerin DEAUVILLE, France — It was in Deauville that Joie De Soir did all her best work as a racehorse, winning the Listed Grand Prix de Clairefontaine and Listed Prix du Carrousel, and the trend…
De la Renta (Oscar Performance), an impressive gate-to-wire maiden winner on the Tapeta surface July 19, switched to the turf Saturday and made her stakes debut a winning one in the Soaring Free Stakes at Woodbine. Made the 9-5 favorite…
Paddy Twomey bought a Frankel filly (lot 63) for €800,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale on Saturday. Twomey purchased the bay online. The daughter of G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Lightening Pearl (Marju) was offered by Ecurie des Monceaux.…
Baroda Stud's son of Wootton Bassett was the second lot to breach the €500,000 mark during the first session of Arqana's August Yearling Sale. He sold to Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock for €800,000 on Saturday afternoon and was bred…
The first lot to breach the €1-million mark at Arqana was lot 42, a son of American Triple Crown winner Justify and the multiple stakes winner Joie De Soir (Fastnet Rock). Bred by Rockhart Trading, he sold for €1.25 million…
Joe Harper, the chief executive officer of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club (DMTC) who will be retiring from his position at the end of the year, has been named the 22nd winner of the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award, the track…
Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced juveniles from a variety of…
4th-SAR, $115k, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, post time: 3:03 p.m. ET Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' DIGNIFY (Justify), a $700,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga acquisition, is the first foal from Season Ticket (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), an unraced half-sister to the legendary Tepin (Bernstein), a…