Canterbury Park Concludes Season With Gains
Canterbury Park's 32nd season of live racing concluded Sept. 19 showing gains in attendance and on-track wagering during the 50-day meet.
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Canterbury Park's 32nd season of live racing concluded Sept. 19 showing gains in attendance and on-track wagering during the 50-day meet.
Not This Time 3-year-old fillies grab attention Sept. 19 with Bodacious Bay taking the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) at Parx Racing and Conceit the $300,000 Dogwood Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs.
A total of 276 horses changed hands for $62,870,000, including private sales. Gross sales fell from $65,327,000 at last year's corresponding session, though 21 fewer horses were traded. The average price was up 3.6% to $227,790.
New York-breds will take center stage in four stakes events Sept. 21 at Finger Lakes, topped by the $100,634 Lady Finger Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and the $99,615 Aspirant Stakes for 2-year-old males.
Shortly after the Keeneland September Yearling Sale had the first $1 million horse of its fifth session with Hip 1250, a second colt, a son of Not This Time consigned as Hip 1275, surpassed that figure in selling for $1.5 million…
A colt by Into Mischief became the first seven-figure horse of the fifth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale when bloodstock agent Fergus Galvin purchased him for $1 million.
Racing Sept. 19 at Parx Racing in the Cotillion Stakes (G1), recent purchase Bodacious Bay pays immediate dividends for her new connections by defeating Always a Runner and Measure in the $1 million race for 3-year-old fillies.
Reza turned heads by breaking his maiden by 8 lengths with a last-to-first rally in his debut Sept. 19 at Gulfstream Park, becoming the first winner for freshman sire Tale of Silence.
Ellen Epstein's Cajun Caviar improves to 2-for-2 by capturing the Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes Sept. 19 at Louisiana Downs, becoming the first stakes winner for her sire No Parole.
Turf or dirt, it doesn't seem to matter to Kaleem Shah's Stradale.