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Runaway Ghost Retired To Double LL Farms In New Mexico

Grade 3 winner Runaway Ghost (Ghostzapper x Rose's Desert by Desert God) has been retired from racing and will stand for the 2021 breeding season at Double LL Farms in Bosque, N.M.

With lifetime earnings of $783,509, he won a total of six stakes races, from six furlongs to a mile and an eighth, by a combined 27 1/4 lengths. His Grade 3 Sunland Derby win earned him the right to enter the 2018 Kentucky Derby, but he was forced to scratch prior to the Derby after suffering a training injury while at Sunland Park Racetrack in New Mexico.

Runaway Ghost came back as a 4-year-old and won three stakes races at Sunland Park before shipping to Kentucky for the G3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland, where he unfortunately suffered an ankle injury after twice clipping heels in the race.

A third-generation homebred for Joe Peacock of San Antonio, Texas, Runaway Ghost retires sound and will continue to be owned by the Peacock family as he starts his second career.

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The Way Home Moves To Lost Creek Ranch In Arkansas For 2021

The Way Home, a veteran New Mexico sire, has been sold to Craig Whitlow's Whipsaw Thorougbreds, and he will relocate to Dr. Rodney Vaughn's Lost Creek Ranch in Jonesboro Ark., for the 2021 breeding season.

The 16-year-old son of Giant's Causeway previously stood at Doubletree Farm in Hobbs, N.M., where he entered stud in 2008. He sold to Whipsaw Thoroughbreds for $1,350 last month in the ThoroughbredAuctions.com online New Mexico Breeders' Sale.

An advertised fee will be announced at a later time.

The Way Home's runners have earned over $4 million on the racetrack, and his top runners include stakes winners Way to Go Gerda, Western Way, and E Bar Way.

“I'm very glad to have a man of Rodney's talent to stand The Way Home for Whipsaw Thoroughbreds,” Whitlow said. “He is extremely experienced and great at what he does. I can not express our excitement to have Lost Creek Ranch as The Way Home's new home.

“Rodney is building the future Greensboro Equine Clinic in Jonesboro, which just reinforces our beliefs that this is the up and coming area for breeding race horse,” he continued. “The breeding incentives alone are worth the investment in this area.”

Bred in Virginia by Edward P. Evans, The Way Home is out of the placed Buckaroo mare Homewrecker, who became one of the top broodmares of her generation. The stallion is a sibling to five stakes winners including Grade 1 winner Prenup, Grade 2 winner Cat's at Home, and Grade 3 winners Honor the Hero and Giant Wrecker.

Whitlow said The Way Home has yet not relocated to Arkansas, but the stallion already has eight mares booked to him for 2021.

Whitlow, a graduate of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, said the school's decision to start its own Thoroughbred breeding program also influenced his decision to send The Way Home to stand at Lost Creek Ranch.

To support his alma mater, Whitlow said Whipsaw Thoroughbreds has started a fundraiser for the school to support their program, as well as bring attention to The Way Home.

Whipsaw Thoroughbreds will be accepting donations for the Arkansas State equine program, and the donor that raises the total amount over each thousand-dollar threshold, through the first $10,000, will receive a free season to The Way Home, with an approved mare.

“We wanted to make it fun to support one of the few universities that offer a Thoroughbred industry program and a way into this business for our future horse breeders, trainers, farm managers, horsemen and women,” Whitlow said. “It's important to Whipsaw Thoroughbreds to preserve our industry's future. When I was growing up, you had to either be born into it or know some one. I think horsemen and women from all over the country will get behind donating to these programs since they usually have such limited budgets.”

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Judge Lainer Racing Stables To Disperse Racing Stock On ThoroughbredAuctions.Com

ThoroughbredAuctions.com announces the dispersal of horses of racing age owned by Tom and Sandra McKenna of Judge Lanier Racing Stables. Due to an unfortunate accident, the McKennas made the difficult decision to disperse their racing stock.

The auction will be an internet-only auction, with bidding opening Sept. 16th, and closing Sept. 23rd at ThoroughbredAuctions.com

Tom and Sandra will continue their New Mexico breeding program with foals from Conquest Mo Money, a Preakness contender and runner-up in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby. His first crop will race in 2022.

Judge Lanier Racing Stables has been a perennial leading owner of race horses in New Mexico. Since 2005 the stable has had earnings of $9,380,211. Their 2019 earnings of $1,595,458 were the highest yet for the stable.

“We've been leading owners at Zia Park for eight years, Sunland Park nine years, at least five times at Albuquerque, and five times at SunRay Park,” said Tom McKenna. “We have been leading owners statewide and recognized by the New Mexico Horsemen's Association every year since 2014. We have also been ranked nationally in the top 50 owners for the last six years in wins and in the top 100 in earnings for the last six years of the 29,000 owners. Management at Sunland Park informed us that since the inception of casinos in New Mexico, Judge Lanier Racing has the most wins on record.”

The McKennas' Judge Lanier Racing Stable is named after Tom's grandfather, Judge C.M. Lanier, who raised him. Tom began riding horses for his grandfather at the age of nine or 10 years old, and broke his first horse out of the gate at age 12.

The McKennas began their racing program in New Mexico in the early 2000's, with their first starter in 2004. The 2017 season brought them national recognition with their stakes winning son of Uncle Mo, Conquest Mo Money. A winner of the Mine That Bird Derby, and second in both the G3 Sunland Park Derby and the G1 Arkansas Derby, the horse put them on the trail for a run at the Preakness.

Included in the dispersal is Top Draw, the son of leading sire Into Mischief, who was the recent winner of the Charles Taylor Stakes on Aug. 29 and has earnings of $102,599. Also selling is the stakes-placed mare McWend, the 2019 New Mexico champion 3-year-old filly and earner of $197,190. Most horses in the auction will be offered with no reserve.

Prospective buyers will need to go to the auction website, and create an account. They will then need to request a bidder's number in order to bid. Please visit the website at ThoroughbredAuctions.com for more information or email info@thoroughbredauctions.com.

ThoroughbredAuctions.com leads the industry with twice as many horses cataloged and four times as many sold than all other online Thoroughbred auctions in North America combined. The company just completed the largest online Thoroughbred auction ever held in North America with 98 horses cataloged. That brings the total number of Thoroughbreds sold at ThoroughbredAuctions.com to 288 from 369 cataloged in seven auctions since February of 2019.

The ThoroughbredAuctions.com team produces North America's leading online auctions for horses. The management team pioneered internet auctions for horses and has produced more than 80 internet auctions since 2012 boasting a high seller of $226,000.

Tim and Cathy are the industry's most experienced show horse auction managers. Our team managed more than 380 live horse auctions selling over 80,000 horses since 1978. Tim's previous firm, Professional Auction Services, was the largest show horse auction company in the world, by number of horses sold for 15 years.

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Aisle Runner Tops R.D. Hubbard Thoroughbred Dispersal; Stallion Attila’s Storm To Remain In New Mexico

The R.D. Hubbard Complete Thoroughbred Dispersal was a resounding success. With 54 horses offered in the online auction by ThoroughbredAuctions.Com, all 54 found new homes.

The auction grossed $1,560,350 and averaged $28,895, while median was $17,500. The online auction had 246 registered bidders and 100,339 page-views at the close of the auction.

The high seller, bringing a final bid of $91,250 was also the high-selling racehorse. Aisle Runner, a New Mexico-bred 2-year-old gelding by Attila's Storm, out of the Bernardini mare Garter, was already a winner, and qualified for the $134,632 Rio Grande Senor Futurity, where he will race in the colors of the new owner, Ray Willis.

The second-highest seller and high selling stallion was leading New Mexico sire Attila's Storm. The 18-year-old stakes-winning son of Forest Wildcat brought $90,000 from buyer Jimmy Vasquez after staying in extended bidding for over 30 minutes. Attila's Storm is the sire of 22 stakes winners, and will remain in New Mexico, standing at Double LL Farms.

The high-selling broodmare was Garter, a multiple stakes-producing daughter of Bernardini who fetched a final bid of $80,250 from buyer Victory Crossing, LLC. The 12-year-old mare is a half-sibling to sires Stravinsky and Moscow Ballet. Garter sold pregnant to Attilla's Storm.

Leading the yearlings was a filly by Attila's Storm out of the multiple stakes-producing mare, Hang Glide. The New Mexico-bred filly, purchased by Doug May of Fort Stockton, Texas for $62,250, is a half-sister to six stakes horses and earners of over $1 million.

The top weanling was a filly by Attila's Storm out of Hang Glide. The filly realized a final price of $55,250 from buyer B-4 Farms.

The R.D. Hubbard Complete Thoroughbred Dispersal had originally been scheduled during the Ruidoso Sale in August. After Ruidoso opted to move the live auction to the Lazy E Ranch in New Mexico, ThoroughbredAuctions.com partner Tim Jennings was contacted by R.D. Hubbard's grandson, Shaun Hubbard. From the first phone call, to the close of the auction, was a mere 22 days.

“We are grateful to Shaun Hubbard for having a vision, and trusting us to sell the fruits of his grandfather's legacy,” Jennings said. “We are also fortunate to have a proven platform where people in the Thoroughbred business have a place to market their horses from the safety of their homes.“

Tim and Cathy Jennings of ThoroughbredAuctions.com are the pioneers of internet horse auctions in the United States. They started holding internet horse auctions in 2012. Their previous auction experience was through their family owned company, Professional Auction Services, Inc., the largest show horse auction company in the U.S.

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

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