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Jeff and Stacy Jeans, along with their partners who are all Texas residents, have decided to move their entire Thoroughbred operation from Pennsylvania to the Lone Star State.

Graded stakes winners Airoforce and Uncle Vinny will stand the 2023 breeding season at Solitude Thoroughbreds in Alvord, Texas. They stood the last three years at Equistar Training Center in Annville Pa.

“With all the positives in Texas Thoroughbred racing in the past three years, the time to come home was now,” Jeff Jeans said. “We are excited to be able to watch our foals born, feed carrots to our stallions and mares and have them less than an hour away from our home so we can go visit without having to board a plane. Our goal is to get heavily involved with the Southwest region, to breed, sell and race in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.”

Airoforce and Uncle Vinny will join the current roster of Solitude Thoroughbreds made up of King Zachary, a graded stakes-winning son of Curlin, and Tiz Mischief the graded-placed son of Into Mischief.

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Keeneland announced today that Marion Ravenwood, dam of multiple Grade 1 winner Nest, who is the highest-rated 3-year-old on the latest NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll, and Callingmissbrown, dam of 2022 Belmont Stakes winner Mo Donegal, have been entered in Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale to sell on opening day, Nov. 7, during the prestigious Book 1.

Marion Ravenwood is in foal to Curlin with a full sibling to Nest, while Callingmissbrown is in foal to Uncle Mo with a full sibling to the Belmont winner. Ashview Farm, agent, consigns both mares.

“Marion Ravenwood and Callingmissbrown are both beautiful, top-quality proven mares, and it is our honor to offer them in November.” Ashview's Gray Lyster said.

“These two mares represent active families competing at the highest level of racing,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “Nest is responsible for some of the most dominating performances of the season, prevailing in Saturday's Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga by 4 1/4 lengths. The fact that Mo Donegal and Nest ran 1-2 in the Belmont speaks to their quality. We are proud that both Nest and Mo Donegal are graduates of Keeneland's September Yearling Sale and excited to offer their dams, who are carrying full siblings to these Grade 1 winners, at the November Sale.”

Nest's talent was immediately apparent at two when she won her career debut at Belmont by five lengths and captured the G2 Demoiselle at Aqueduct. She debuted this season with a win in the Suncoast at Tampa Bay Downs before taking Keeneland's G1 Ashland by 8 1/4 lengths. Runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks, she was second to Mo Donegal in the Belmont before winning two of Saratoga's premier stakes for sophomore fillies: the G1 Coaching Club American Oaks by 12 1/4 lengths and Alabama.

Nest is out of Marion Ravenwood, a stakes winner by A.P. Indy, whose dam is Grade 2 winner Andujar, by Quiet American. A half-sister to stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Abstraction, Marion Ravenwood is from the family of 2022 Grade 3 winner Big Invasion, who has won six consecutive races.

Marion Ravenwood also is the dam of 2021 G1 Santa Anita Handicap winner Idol, who set Churchill Downs' 1 3/16-mile track record in 2020, and Lost Ark, a 5 1/2-length maiden winner in his career debut in July at Belmont. Lost Ark is entered in Saturday's Sapling at Monmouth Park.

Callingmissbrown, a winning daughter of Pulpit, is out of Grade 1 winner and Kentucky Oaks runner-up Island Sand, by Tabasco Cat. Callingmissbrown is a half-sister to Grade 1-placed winner Maya Malibu and stakes-placed winner Midnight Poppa.

In addition to his Belmont victory, Mo Donegal won the G2 Wood Memorial over eventual Preakness Stakes winner Early Voting.

Callingmissbrown also is the dam of the impressive 2-year-old filly Prank, who earned a 91 Beyer Speed Figure in her career debut.

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Imagining (Giant's Causeway x Daydreaming, by A.P. Indy) was euthanized on Aug. 23 due to complications from colic.

The 14-year-old stallion was under the care of veterinarians at New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. Surgery was attempted but the extent of the damage was too severe. The decision was made to humanely euthanize him on the operating table.

“Imagining has been with us since the start in 2015. We want to thank Shug McGaughey and the Phipps family for trusting us to bring a Grade 1-winning millionaire from a prolific Phipps pedigree to Maryland. We were proud to do so and will be grateful to Imagining for what he did for us,” said Grace Merryman of Anchor & Hope Farm.

Imagining, by Giant's Causeway out of the A.P. Indy mare Daydreaming, won the Grade 1 Man o' War Stakes  and captured the G2 Pan American Stakes.  Imagining retired with nine wins, five seconds, and two thirds from 26 starts for earnings of $1,177,394 while racing for his breeder, Phipps Stable, and trainer Shug McGaughey.

“His kids are routinely on the board around the Mid-Atlantic and they include stakes horses, graded placings, both dirt and turf winners and recently, talented runners over fences. With his pedigree, we look forward to seeing the broodmare careers of his daughters” said Louis Merryman of Anchor & Hope Farm.

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The average price of New Mexico-bred Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds sold at the annual August sale at Ruidoso Downs jumped by 49.27 percent this year, according to preliminary sales sheets made available on Sunday.

The average price for the 226 state-bred yearlings that went through the auction ring was $25,157 compared to $16,853 in 2021.

The highest price paid for any Thoroughbred yearling at the sale was a chestnut colt sired by Marking out of the mare Pay Back Time by Songandaprayer for $165,000. The colt was purchased by Jana Trotter.

The Quarter Horse yearling that brought the highest price during the sale $130,000 for Ridethehightide, a gray gelding sired by Big Daddy Cartel out of the mare Ms Riptide by Ocean Runaway. He was purchased by the partnership of J. Simmons Racing, Roger K. Beasley, Slash Z Quarter Horses and Wootan Racing.

The annual Ruidoso Downs Select Yearling Sale of open yearlings will be held Friday through Sunday, Sept. 2-4 inside the Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion. For more information visit www.raceruidoso.com/horse-sales.

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