Fasig-Tipton Digital Sale Kicks Off Thursday

Fasig-Tipton's new standalone digital auction platform–Fasig-Tipton Digital–will launch Thursday with the March Digital Selected Sale. The sale continues through Tuesday, Mar. 22.

“There's a lot of people that have expressed the need for this kind of market,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “They've been very supportive of our first sale. To them, it's a segment of the market that needs to be filled.”

The catalogue of approximately 15-20 head will be revealed at digital.fasigtipton.com Thursday and bidding will open at that time. The group will include horses of racing age, broodmares, racing/broodmare prospects and a stallion share. The digital website will feature photos, videos, repository, health information, pedigrees, race replays, various past performances and speed figures. Potential buyers can schedule a physical inspection on that platform as well.

“The stallion share is for a young, up-and-coming stallion,” Aaron said. “We have multiple stakes horses in this book, half siblings to Grade I winners, daughters of Grade I winners, horses with conditions left to race and graded-stakes caliber racehorses. It's a very strong group of horses.”

He concluded, “The support that we've gotten from consignors horse wise is very good. It's just a real quality group of horses. I think it's gonna grow eventually with volume, but for right now, we're just focused on quality to try to establish the marketplace.”

For more from Aaron on the March Digital Selected Sale, click here for a recent Q&A session.

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Shadwell Farm Selling Two Auxiliary Kentucky Properties

Shadwell Farm, in continuing with its restructuring process, has decided to sell two of its auxiliary farms: Shadayid Stud consisting of 839 acres and Erhaab Stud with 525 acres. Both of these farms were meticulously developed by Shadwell, are in pristine condition, and have been impeccably maintained. These farms are separate from the original main division where Shadwell will continue to raise Thoroughbreds in the finest tradition.

Shadwell have selected the esteemed brokerage firm, Justice Real Estate, to represent it in the sale of these two premiere horse farms.

Shadayid Stud – 839 acres

When Shadwell Farm, established in 1985, decided to expand, they were given the order to procure the richest, undeveloped land that was available in Central Kentucky. This was accomplished in 1993 and 1994 with what's now named Shadayid Stud. Consisting of 839± acres on both sides of Leestown Road, Shadayid Stud has been painstakingly developed into the premier horse farm that it is today.

The North Side (587 acres) is currently developed into a yearling division featuring six well-planned fields from 50-75 acres each and can easily be converted into a broodmare/yearling operation. Beautiful winding roads lead you to six identical concrete block barns with 84 stalls and three employee houses.

In addition to the manager's residence, you'll discover two three-bedroom, two-bath employee houses plus the farm office and majlis. The South Elkhorn Creek is along the farm's entire rear boundary and interspersed along the creek are three small cabins.

The South Side is accessed via two stone gated entrances and is home to its horse and cattle division. With over 43 paddocks, you'll find two identical concrete block 18-stall horse barns, a rehab barn with offices and 8 stalls, a show barn, a calving barn, three hay barns, a turn-out barn, shop and equipment building, and a nice 2,100 square foot three-bedroom, two-bath employee house. The farm is further improved with 35 miles of fencing and over five miles of paved roads.

Exclusively offered at $17,750,000.

Erhaab Stud – 525 acres

Erhaab Stud, formerly known as Elko Bell Farm, is historically known as the most fertile and productive land in Scott and Franklin Counties. Located at the Scott/Franklin County line, Erhaab Stud is only minutes away from Midway, Frankfort, and Georgetown.

Shadwell Farm purchased this farm in 1999 because the land is of the highest quality and developed it into one of the most coveted Thoroughbred nurseries in Central Kentucky by true horsemen with the horse and land always in the forefront.

With approximately 3,000 feet of frontage on US 460 (Frankfort/Georgetown Road), you enter this magnificent farm via an impressive gated stone entrance and travel over approximately four miles of paved roads along its tree-lined driveways to its vast and quality improvements. Horse improvements include nine concrete block barns with 105 stalls, six fabulous concrete block run-in sheds, a covered six-horse walker, and covered round pen. Additionally, improvements include a shop/paint building and equipment shed.

Housing includes a c.1870s 5,900 square foot home (currently used as an office) and four employee houses.

This farm is further improved with approximately 22 miles of fencing and nearly four miles of paved roads. Bordered by the South Elkhorn Creek, Erhaab Stud is as aesthetically pleasing as it is functional.

Exclusively offered at $12,000,000.

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Capacity Crowds Expected For DWC Night

The Mar. 26 Dubai World Cup night, which features $30.5 million in purses spread across nine races, is expected to attract a full house of fans for the 26th edition. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, race meetings have been conducted with restrictions placed on the number of people allowed to attend, but for the first time since 2019, there are no restrictions at a Meydan race day. Meydan Racecourse can hold up to 80,000 spectators.

Sheikh Rashid bin Dalmook Al Maktoum, the Chairman of Dubai Racing Club, said, “We are so happy to have everyone back here for what will be a fantastic 26th running of the Dubai World Cup meeting. The atmosphere will be absolutely electrifying.

“The quality of the horses, trainers, owners and jockeys who have assembled is better than ever and we are looking forward to a superb day of racing with our guests from all over the world.

“I would like to thank our partners for their support and also the team at Dubai Racing Club, who have worked so hard to bring this meeting together.”

For the first time, the Goffs Dubai Breeze-Up Sale will be held on Mar. 23 leading up to Dubai World Cup night. The sale will be held at Meydan Racecourse, with the breezes conducted over the Tapeta track.

He added, “The first-ever Dubai Breeze-Up Sale is something we are all looking forward to eagerly as well, as it gives owners and connections in the region the chance to view and purchase some of the best bred 2-year-old horses in their backyard. It is something that will further cement Dubai's position as one of the main centres for racing, not just in the region, but globally too.”

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Beet Pulp As An Energy Source For Equines

Horses with high energy demands, such as performance horses and hard keepers, frequently require concentrates to meet athletic expectations and to maintain condition. If you're looking to decrease the amount of high-starch concentrates, offering beet pulp can offset the need for cereal grains while supporting a healthy gastrointestinal system.

Offering concentrates fills the gap in many horse's diets when hay alone provides insufficient calories. In some cases, the starch content of traditional sweet feeds and straight cereal grains can exceed 40 percent in a horse's diet, potentially resulting in digestive disorders when fed at high intakes.

Some horses fed these types of diets may require gastrointestinal support due to the possibility of gastric ulcerationhindgut acidosis, and even laminitis.

“Nutritional supplements containing digestive buffers help attenuate the risk of acidosis due to starch fermentation in both the stomach and hindgut. Kentucky Equine Research has several products designed to deliver high-quality ingredients with significant buffering capacity to support total digestive tract health and function,” said Catherine Whitehouse, M.S., a Kentucky Equine Research nutritionist.

To maximize gastrointestinal health while supplying adequate calories to hard-working horses, nutritionists recommend limiting the amount of starch. Even when carefully supplied, some horses cannot tolerate this amount of starch in their diet. To add calories and offset the amount of starch fed, owners can offer vegetable oil or stabilized rice bran. If stabilized rice bran does not work for a particular horse, owners can try another “concentrate-sparing” feedstuff, beet pulp, though stabilized rice bran contains 50 percent more energy than beet pulp.

In terms of hindgut health specifically, beet pulp recently proved valuable in limiting hindgut dysbiosis that can occur with diets rich in starch and other soluble carbohydrates.* Dysbiosis refers to an alteration in the type and amount of bacteria in the intestinal microbiome that may lead to disease.

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In the study, different diets were fed to horses. The beet pulp diet involved 50 percent hay, 21 percent barley, and 29 percent beet pulp, while the high-starch included 55 percent hay and 45 percent barley.

When horses were fed the diet with beet pulp, the cellulolytic bacteria in the intestinal microbiome were more numerous than in horses on the high-starch diet; these beneficial bacteria break down fiber. In addition, horses fed beet pulp also produced higher concentrations of volatile fatty acids than horses fed the high-starch diet. Volatile fatty acids produced by bacteria in the hindgut are the primary source of energy for horses.

These results suggest that replacing even a portion of the concentrate with beet pulp can limit hindgut dysbiosis without affecting energy supply. This reinforces the reality that many feeds formulated for hardworking horses contain multiple energy sources, including starch, fat, and fermentable fiber. One of the most oft-used fermentable fibers is beet pulp.

*Grimm, P., V. Julliand, and S. Julliand. 2021. Partial substitution of cereals with sugar beet pulp and hindgut health in horses. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science 100:103530.

Reprinted courtesy of Kentucky Equine Research. Visit ker.com for the latest in equine nutrition and management, and subscribe to Equinews to receive these articles directly.

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