Tag: Bloodstock

Nineteen Indiana-bred yearlings will grace the sales ring at the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, starting with the fifth session on Sept. 17.

Watching the culmination of more than two years' worth of research, planning, preparation and care walk through the Keeneland Sales Pavilion is one of the ultimate goals for the small breeder, next to winning a stakes race, of course.

Perennial top breeders Deann Baer and Greg Baer, DVM, offer three quality-bred yearlings through this sale. The fifth session will see Hip 1454, a bay filly by Breeders' Cup champion Mitole and out of the Street Sense mare, Ice Women. Ice Women has produced two runners so far, with Corningstone (Kantharos) recently placing second in the black-type Back Home Again Stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis. The filly sells with Taylor Made Sales.

Stallions Enticed and Connect are represented by yearlings consigned by breeder St. Simon Place through sales agent Machmer Hall Sales. Hip 1470 is the Enticed colt out of Kitty Quality (by Quality Road). Enticed, a son of leading sire Medaglia d'Oro, is a multiple graded stakes winner whose first foals are yearlings of 2022.

Hip 2009 is a Connect colt out of the Congrats mare, Siege Gun, selling during the seventh session. Connect first foals are 3-year-olds this year and have already seen Grade 1 winner Rattle N Roll and Grade 3 winner Hidden Connection.

Two Indiana-sired yearlings will hit the ring. Sired by two of the most exciting young Indiana stallions, these two fillies will be a great introduction to the Indiana program with the ability to enter Indiana-sired and Indiana-bred races at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

Hip 3718 by Charles Fipke's Forever d'Oro and our of the Flatter mare, Cajolery, is consigned by Hunter Valley Farm and will hit the ring during session 11.

Hip 3853 by Charming Kitten and out of the Country Day mare, Miss Maren, is consigned by Hunter Valley Farm and will hit the ring during session 11. Charming Kitten, by the late great Kitten's Joy, will begin his third season standing at stallion and has been an exciting addition to Indiana due to the versatility Kitten's Joy babies can run.

Purchasing a yearling registered with the Indiana Thoroughbred Breed Development Program means money in your pocket when you race at Horseshoe Indianapolis. With hundreds of opportunities to race for thousands of dollars, Indiana-bred and Indiana-sired horses pay back not only the breeder but owners benefit from racing in restricted black type stakes races with purses paying $100,000-$200,000.

The post Indiana Breeders Send Best To Keeneland September Yearling Sale appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

Flightline, who is rated among the best racehorses in history after his momentous 19 1/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic this month, will enter stud as the property of a syndicate at Lane's End Farm upon the conclusion of his racing career.

By Tapit from a prolific Phipps family, Flightline was bred by Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm and is raced by Summer Wind in partnership with Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, West Point Thoroughbreds and Woodford Racing. A $1-million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase from the Lane's End consignment, Flightline is trained by John Sadler and has been ridden in all five of his starts by Flavien Prat.

Flightline displayed star power right from the beginning, winning on debut in April of 2021 at Santa Anita Park. His 13 ¼-length victory earned him 'TDN Rising Star' status and a Beyer Speed Figure of 105. He was scintillating in a first-level allowance at Del Mar at second asking, winning by 12 ¾ lengths and earning a 114 Beyer.

Making his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakees in December of 2021, Flightline continued to assert his dominance, winning by 11 ½ lengths for a 118 Beyer. Next seen in the G1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park on June 11, Flightline overcame a troubled trip to score by six lengths, earning a 112 Beyer.

The Pacific Classic on Sept. 3 was Flightline's first attempt stretching out to two turns and a mile and a quarter. It proved to be his most dominant performance to date, as he drew off from Dubai World Cup winner Country Grammer and G1 Santa Anita Handicap winner Express Train to win by 19 ¼ lengths, earning a Beyer of 126–the joint second-highest Beyer since Daily Racing Form began publishing Beyer Speed Figures 30 years ago. Thoro-Graph assigned Flightline a – 8 1/2, the fastest number it has ever given out.

Flightline's Pacific Classic performance resonated overseas, too: Timeform assigned him a rating of 143, the highest number ever given to an American-trained horse. Flightline also sits atop Timeform's 2022 global rankings, ahead of Shadwell's unbeaten European superstar Baaeed. He has earned nearly $1.4-million, and is being pointed for the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland on Nov. 5.

Flightline is out of Jane Lyon's Feathered, a daughter of Indian Charlie who won the G3 Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs and finished second in both the G1 American Oaks and G1 Starlet Stakes and third in the G1 Frizette Stakes. It is an excellent Phipps family, the third dam being the G1 Matron Stakes and G1 Acorn Stakes winner Finder's Fee, and the fourth dam the Grade 1-winning and multiple Grade 1-placed Fantastic Find.

The post Flightline To Stand At Lane’s End Upon Retirement appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

The 2022 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (British Columbia Division) took place Sept. 8, posting declines in gross, but gains in average and median sale price, topped by a $40,000 (Canadian) colt by Practical Joke.

A total of 57 horses changed hands during the auction at Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, B.C., for revenues of $983,100, down 17 percent from the 2021 sale, when 75 horses sold for $1,191,000.

The average sale price increased nine percent year-over-year to $17,247 from $15,880, while the median rose 31 percent to $17,000 from $13,000.

Swift Thoroughbreds Inc., purchased the sale-topper, a Practical Joke colt, for $40,0oo.

The bay colt is the second foal out of the winning Paynter mare Sekhmet's Revenge. The dam is a half-sister to Grade 1-placed stakes winner Zeewat and Grade 3-placed stakes winner Henny Jenney.

The British Columbia-bred's extended family includes Grade 2 winners Cozi Rosie and Lexicon.

Nutritech Ventures Inc. consigned the sale-topper.

The auction's leading consignor by gross was Whitewood Farm, which moved four horses for a combined $105,000. Leading the way for the consignment was a $35,000 Honor Code colt that sold to Tod Mtn. Thoroughbreds.

That buyer was the sale's leading purchaser, securing 10 horses for a total of $208,000. The aforementioned Honor Code colt was the operation's biggest purchase of the sale.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

The post Practical Joke Colt Tops 2022 CTHS British Columbia Yearling, Mixed Sale appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post