Month: June 2023

Preservationist Represented By First Winner At Belterra

3rd-Belterra, $23,700, (S), Msw, 6-29, 2yo, f, 5f, :59.70, ft, 3 3/4 lengths.
ARTISTIC LANEY (f, 2, Preservationist–Artistic License {SW, $196,488}, by Heart of the Storm), chilly on the board at 9-1 in her afternoon debut, tucked in behind the leading duo of Pretty Patty (Bold Warrior) and Twisted Justice (Biondetti), content to sit off them through fractions of :22.73 and :48.80. Shaken up to take the lead with a four-wide move into the stretch, she was easily the class of the field to the wire, hitting the line 3 3/4 lengths to the good of Pretty Patty who filled out the exacta. The first winner for her freshman sire (by Arch), Artistic Laney has yearling half-sister by Complexity and a newborn half-sister by Jimmy Creed. Her sire currently stands at Airdrie Stud for $10,000 LFSN. Sales History: $20,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $14,220. Click for the Equibase.com chart.
O-Paul King; B-T/C Stable, LLC & Larmon Cowles (OH); T-Aaron M. West.

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Castledillon’s Kayf Tara Gelding Heads Derby Sale

Kayf Tara (GB) may be gone, but his exploits are certainly not forgotten and late in the day at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale his three-year-old son consigned by Timmy Hillman's Castledillon Stud brought the hammer down at  €265,000. Becoming the highest-priced store horse of the year, the  the full-brother to the winning point-to-pointer Romeo Coolio (GB) was bought by Eddie O'Leary and Gordon Elliott.

Hillman, who topped the Derby Sale for this first time, said of lot 397, “We bought him privately off Will Kinsey and it was through Covid so it is all due to him. He was a smasher at the time. He has done nothing wrong at all and let's hope he is lucky for his new owners.”

Haras du Mesnil's Doctor Dino (Fr) is a stallion with an increasingly lofty reputation among the National Hunt ranks, and he provided not only the second-top lot of the concluding day but four of the top ten lots across the whole sale.

Johnny Collins of Brown Island Stables pulled off a major touch when selling the three-year-old gelding (lot 249) out of Countess Comet (Ire) (Medicean {GB}) to Ian Ferguson for €240,000. Collins had only had the relation to Group 2-winning stayer Air Pilot (GB) (Zamindar) in his care for five months, having bought him at the Goffs UK January Sale from Mill Farm Stud for £58,000.

“There was no imagination when I bought him, it was only a matter of keeping him for a few months, he was a lovely three-year-old then,” he said. “I bought him to come here, I was wanting something by this stallion. I had been trying to buy one by him in France and I could not get them.”

Collins added, “This gelding is by an amazing sire and is an incredible mover. He is the same horse in January as he is now – he came from a good farm and was well prepped, I was just in the right place at the right time.”

Collins also bought the Nathaniel yearling-half-brother to the Doctor Dino gelding in January for £20,000. On Thursday at the Derby Sale, his Brown Island Stables was responsible for another of the top lots, a daughter of the rising French sire Beaumec de Houelle (Fr), who stands at Haras de Montaigu. The grey filly (lot 226) is already named Kisuton Enki (Fr) and was bought by Bobby O'Ryan for €160,000.

Britain's champion jumps trainer Paul Nicholls snapped up two of the day's more expensive lots with bloodstock agent Tom Malone. The pair went to €165,000 for lot 269, a three-year-old Authorized (Ire) gelding out of a winning full-sister to the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Al Boom Photo (Fr) (Buck's Boum {Fr}) from Ballincurrig House Stud.

A fall in clearance rate to 81% from a stellar 93% last year also led to reductions in other sectors. Twenty-one fewer horses sold this year brought the aggregate down to €16,075,000 (-14%), with the average of €53,583 down by 7% and the median also dropping by 14% to €43,000.

 

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Jockeys & Jeans Sets Record At Ninth Annual Fundraiser To Benefit PDJF

Early results are in for the ninth annual Jockeys and Jeans fundraiser to benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on June 24: in 2023, the event raised a record of at least $400,000. The previous record was $340,000; raised last year at Churchill Downs. The event brings the total raised by the group to $3.1 million, including the $110,000 raised during the 2022 stallion season sale. Jockeys and Jeans is an all-volunteer group started in late 2014 by five former jockeys.

“It is impossible to sufficiently thank all the staff who at the beginning promised to 'Vegas-Size' the event,” said Jockeys and Jeans President Barry Pearl. “They absolutely did. It was professionally choreographed and staged. From the lighting to the sound effects to the special guests and our speaker, it represented the apex of our development.”

A record of over 300 attended in one of the resort's largest ballrooms with 11 jockeys who suffered career ending injuries and 13 Hall of Fame riders coming separately from behind curtains to take the stage as the Ben Hur theme song heralded their arrival.

An anonymous donor left a check for $50,000. Caesars Entertainment presented a check for $30,000, the Indiana HPBA, led by Director Brian Elmore, contributed $25,000 and Canterbury Park's CEO Randy Sampson accounted for $17,500 in donations.

Tom Reeg, CEO of Caesars Entertainment, personally greeted the Hall of Fame jockeys as well as former riders now in wheelchairs at a party the company sponsored the previous evening. At the event, Reeg spoke of beginning his career in wagering growing up near the former Arlington Park Racetrack where he bet on jockeys Pat Day and Earlie Fires, both Hall of Famers who attended the event.

Famous entrepreneur, philanthropist, horse owner, breeder, bettor and major PDJF donor Jim” Mattress Mack” McIngvale accepted his Person of the Year Award and spoke passionately about jockeys. He termed them “horse racing's stars” and called for their having nationwide Workers Compensation Insurance and for horse owners to finance better injury insurance, retirement benefits and funds for severely injured riders.

“Racing Rachael” McLaughlin kept the event lively as its MC. Attendees included singer/songwriter Clint Holmes and actors Charles Mark Whitefield and Vince Van Patten. Las Vegas local Leonard Eckhaus introduced renowned singer Giada Valenti who sang for the audience, and Louisville Kentucky based comedian Mark Kline provided a set at the event. He was also the live auction auctioneer, where the sales topper was a Churchill Downs donation of a box of six on both the days of 1923 150th Kentucky Oaks and Derby that sold for $17,000.

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