Category: Industry News

The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) today announced the recipients of its two non-competition awards, the T.I.P. Thoroughbred of the Year Award and the T.I.P. Young Rider of the Year Award, for 2022. The Thoroughbred of the Year Award recognizes a Thoroughbred that has excelled in a non-competitive career, such as equine-assisted therapy or…
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By Sarah Mace An auction unlike any other, the Keeneland September sale annually draws an enormous pool of Thoroughbred yearlings from all over North America and beyond, and its opening sessions are regularly punctuated by seven-figure sales. Seemingly unfazed by worldwide economic pressures, inflation or recession jitters, buyers at the recently concluded 2022 renewal actually…
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By Sarah Mace Following last Friday’s dark day, trading resumed on Saturday at the 12-session Keeneland Yearling sale. By the close of business Tuesday, the auctioneers had barreled through the heart of the six-book catalogue. Book 3 offerings were featured on Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. Sessions on Monday and Tuesday, September 19…
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By Sarah Mace Friday, the designated “dark day” at the marathon Keeneland September Sale, gave the team at Keeneland Sales an opportunity to celebrate a successful opening week, which saw four sessions of trading spanning Books 1 and 2 of the catalogue. As we have come to expect, the opening books of this auction feature…
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For Nominated & Registered NY-Bred Two-Year-Olds    2022 FUTURITY NOMS BY DAM   The Lady Finger Stakes $70,000 Added Estimated Gross $100,000 Entry Date: September 19th Run Date: September 26th $1,000 to Enter Supplements Accepted   The Aspirant Stakes $70,000 Added Estimated Gross $100,000 Entry Date: September 19th Run Date: September 26th $1,000 to Enter…
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By Sarah Mace In 2018, the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale had its best year ever, setting exciting new benchmarks for total sales, average, median and top seller. The following year, the New York-bred yearling marketplace experienced a natural correction and, from 2020 forward, the Covid pandemic has disrupted the economics and practicalities of the…
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By Sarah Mace Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Sale of Selected Yearlings, a showcase for the crème de la crème of the season’s yearling crop, regularly features a subset of top-notch New York-bred yearlings who strut their stuff successfully in the most elite company. The 101st renewal of the auction, which took place at Humphrey S. Finney Sales…
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB) in conjunction with the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA), New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, Inc. (NYTHA) and the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding & Development Fund (The Fund) today announced a lucrative new purse enhancement for owners of New York Stallion-sired New York-breds…
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By Sarah Mace Take a deep pedigree with intriguing updates and mix in a buzzworthy bullet work and you have a recipe for auction-ring excitement. In all fairness, however, probably not even breeders Chester and Mary Broman nor consignor Becky Thomas of Sequel Bloodstock could have imagined that Berning Remarks by the late Bernardini, a…
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