Spendthrift Farm’s MGISW Lord Nelson (Pulpit–African Jade by Seeking the Gold) was euthanized Thursday after a long battle with laminitis. He was 9-years-old. “Upon consulting with a veterinarian team consisting of Dr. Scott Morrisson, Dr. Jim… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Sea the Stars Filly A Second Rising Star At Saint-Cloud
Following on where the colt Tumbler (Fr) (Kingman {GB}) had left off at Saint-Cloud on Thursday, Godolphin’s filly Life in Motion (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) earned TDN Rising Star status in the Prix Tenebreuse… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Godolphin Buys New Tattersalls Top Lot
There is a new top lot at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, with Godolphin spending 1.5-million gns on Robert Barnett’s Sea The Stars (Ire) filly out of Best Terms (GB) from Newsells… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Kingman’s Tumbler A New Rising Star in France
Carlos Laffon-Parias trainee Tumbler (Fr) (Kingman {GB}), a hitherto untested homebred sporting the colours of Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, was eclipsed for favouritism in the betting, but opened up with an impressive daylight rout of… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Mountarmstrong Stud’s Galileo Colt Brings 1.1m Guineas
The Coolmore team extended its spending at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale to more than 6.5 million gns when buying Mountarmstrong Stud’s Galileo colt (Ire) for 1.1 million gns. Lot 383 is… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
New Vocations Launches 12th Annual Breeders’ Cup Pledge
Edited Press Release New Vocations has launched its 12th annual Breeders’ Cup Pledge, in which connections of Breeders’ Cup contenders pledge a percentage of their Championship earnings to support the charity’s mission to rehabilitate, retrain and… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Al Shira’aa Buys Waldgeist’s Sister For 1.25-Million Gns
Al Shira’aa Farms continued the spending spree on well-bred fillies it had begun last week at Goffs Orby when going to 1.25-million at Tattersalls on Thursday for the very first lot through the ring, the… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Fasig-Tipton November Catalog Now Online
Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 259 entries for The November Sale, the company’s selected mixed sale to be held in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday, Nov. 9. The single-session sale will begin at 2 p.m. “Eclipse Champions, Breeders’ Cup… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Kingman Colt Is The Second Millionaire at Tattersalls
A son of Kingman (GB) brought 1.1 million gns from MV Magnier and Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm to become the second millionaire during Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Wednesday. Consigned… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
New Topper at Tattersalls as Sea The Stars Colt Brings 1.2 Million Guineas
Watership Down Stud’s lot 277, a Sea The Stars (Ire) colt, became the first seven-figure yearling of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when knocked down for 1.2 million gns to Charlie… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Frankel Colt New Tattersalls Topper at 900,000gns, Galileo Filly Goes For 800k
A colt by Frankel (GB) is the new Tattersalls October Book 1 topper, after being knocked down to MV Magnier for 900,000gns. Lot 227 was preceded into the ring by a Galileo (Ire) filly… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
Coolmore, Brant, New Partners in Jack Christopher
Coolmore Stud and Peter Brant have purchased a minority interest in Jack Christopher (Munnings), who figures to be one of the top choices in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 5. A TDN… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]
