REDEEMED, a wonderfully consistent son of Grade 1-winning millionaire Include, will enter stud at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., for 2013. The 4-year-old, who was retired by owner Samantha Siegel’s Jay Em Ess Stable in September, will stand for $3,000 S&N. He was bred in Virginia by Wayne & Susie Taylor’s Morgan Ford Farm. Read more »
Month: November 2012
Pope Spends $4.2 Million on Plum Pretty
By Esther Marr, @BH_EMarr Photo: Keeneland Photo Plum Pretty was purchased for $4.2 million during the first session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. After spending $10 million on 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace at the Nov. 5 Fasig-Tipton November sale, Mandy Pope of Whisper Hill Farm still wasn’t done Read more »
Fort Larned, Wise Dan Pointed for 2013 Season
By Blood-Horse Staff Photo: Crawford Ifland Fort Larned Trainer Ian Wilkes plans to give Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Fort Larned a break after his taxing effort Nov. 3 and is hoping to return to Santa Anita Park next fall for the 30th World Championships in 2013 . Wilkes made his comments the Read more »
Fort Larned battles to Classic victory
By Fort Larned rewarded his connections’ faith with a scintillating victory in Saturday’s $4,545,000 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita, holding off a game Mucho Macho Man to score by a half-length on the wire. The Janis R. Whitham homebred gave trainer Ian Wilkes and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. their first Breeders’ Cup wins, Read more »
Wise Dan stakes Horse of the Year claim in record-setting Mile
By Morton Fink’s homebred Wise Dan stated his case for Horse of the Year by blitzing an international field in Saturday’s $1,818,000 Breeders’ Cup Mile, and put an exclamation point on his victory by speeding in a Santa Anita course-record 1:31.78 on the firm turf. With jockey John Velazquez orchestrating an ideal passage throughout, Wise Read more »
Rail Trip An Impressive Second in Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile
Rail Trip, a seven year old gelded son of Jump Start, ran a game second in the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Santa Anita on November 3rd. Owned by Jay Em Ess Stable and trained in California by Ron Ellis, Rail Trip shifted out past the three sixteenths pole and finished well only Read more »