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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Wolfie's Dynaghost shares similarities with his graded stakes-winning millionaire half-brother, Sadler's Joy but running style isn't one of them.View the full article -
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well spotted Mr Galah. It's a young GUS. By Majestic Son. Getting to the races for Nathan Williamson early days, and his young driver Kite ? you say. how does that young lad go? can't say i've heard of him much. Thought GUS would be a chance of home track INTERDOMINION trot glory this year . But 4th was his lot behind Arcee Phoenix, Bet N Win and OscarB. those 3 might beat him on Tuesday Dominon H'cap too, as just a fraction sharper. Pete McMullens first trip to NZ , so hope he gets around without galloping Gus too much lol 😁 if he trots he's a rough chance. Here's an amazing photo for today. Another Aussie driver in New Zealand getting some attention. What an amazing photo !!! this horse has 'Open Class' trotter written all over it with 4 feet way off the ground. GUESS WHO ? -
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Spendthrift Farm's Kopion (Omaha Beach–Galloping Ami, by Victory Gallop), who posted three Beyer Speed Figures in excess of 107 in a season which included a blowout victory in the GI Derby City Distaff Stakes, has been retired, according to a report from the Daily Racing Form. Bred by Ivan Dalos's Tall Oaks Farm, Kopion was a $270,000 Keeneland September yearling and won a pair of stakes over seven furlongs at three, a 5 3/4-length success in the GIII Santa Ynez Stakes and a 2 3/4-length score at odds of 37-1 in the GI La Brea Stakes. After defeating Hope Road (Quality Road) in the GII Santa Monica Stakes in February, good for a 110 Beyer, she repeated the dose in the Derby City Distaff, scoring by three lengths and earning a 109 Beyer Speed Figure. Runner-up in the GII Great Lady M. Stakes in July, she rounded out the exacta in the GI Clement L. Hirsch Stakes behind Seismic Beauty (Uncle Mo) (107 Beyer). She was last seen finishing fifth against the boys in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint Nov. 1. “She came out of the race fine, but they're going to breed her,” trainer Richard Mandella told DRF. Mandella told the Form that Kopion would ship to Santa Anita from Del Mar on Sunday before flying to Kentucky on Tuesday. A half-sister to Sovereign Award winner Amis Gizmo (Giant Gizmo), GSW Ami's Flatter (Flatter) and SW Aragorn Ami (Aragorn {Ire}), Kopion retires with a record of 5-3-0 from 10 starts and earnings of $1,204,700. The post Report: Dual Grade I WInner Kopion Retired appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded its two-day Book 3 Saturday, already surpassing the total gross of the 2024 sale with still three days remaining in Lexington, KY. Through five days, the gross for 1,125 horses sold through the ring is up 31.54% from the same period last year when 1,055 horses sold for $163,353,500. Average price rose 23.25% from $154,837 to $190,996. The median of $130,000 increased 36.84% from last year's $95,000. On Saturday, Keeneland sold 259 horses through the ring for $25,328,500, a 29.55% jump from the fifth day last year when 255 horses grossed $19,551,500. The average of $97,793 was 27.55% higher than $76,673 in 2024, while the median rose 41.67% from $60,000 to $85,000. Faris Breeding spent $930,000 on six horses to lead all buyers during the session while Gainesway led consignors Saturday with sales of $3,807,000 for 37 horses. Bringing a final bid of $400,000, the session was topped by Way too Sexy (Flatter) (hip 1482), a 4-year-old mare consigned Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, Agent. Placed in a maiden special weight race at Santa Anita in January for Bob Baffert and the Three Amigos, Way too Sexy was then retired and covered by successful second-crop sire McKinzie for 2026. Out of a SW/MGSP first dam in Ready to Confess, herself a daughter of GI Frizette Stakes winner Confessional, she is a half to a stakes winner in No Confession (Into Mischief). “[You rarely have] the chance to get into those kinds of families, an old Pin Oak family,” said Cary Bloodstock's Andrew Cary who signed the ticket on behalf of Coteau Grove Farms. “You always try and buy the best looking [horses] you can. I think that's always most important in the racing and breeding game. She was purchased by Peter O'Callaghan as a weanling and then Bob Baffert and Donato Lanni as a yearling so it's pretty hard to get past that. She had talent too [on the track]. It didn't all come together for her but she did place in maiden special weight and ability. Then she has a beautiful pedigree with some great names. The second dam was a Grade I winner. Her mother was a graded stakes winner. Flatter should continue to be a good broodmare sire. He's already got Taiba and Nakatomi and I think there's a lot more to come. And she was just absolutely gorgeous.” Andrew Cary signs the ticket for Way too Sexy | Keeneland McKinzie, second only to Vekoma in the second-crop stallion race, has sired the likes of Baeza, Scottish Lassie and Chancer McPatrick. “He's has done extremely well starting off,” Cary said of the covering sire. “He looks like a stallion with a great future ahead of him. His weanlings in the sale have been very well received and he's had several Grade I winners with more to come I would think. I admired him as a race horse. I thought he was tremendously talented and durable to do what he did for ages two through five. You just don't see that.” Louisiana-based Coteau Grove Farm will send their newest broodmare back to Wit, a son of Practical Joke who retired last year to stud through a partnership between Whispering Oaks and Coteau Grove Farms. “She'll go back to Louisiana,” Cary said. “We're building a national-caliber broodmare band there with the likes of Tumbarumba's mother and Margie's Intention's mother. So hopefully this one will follow in their footsteps and will be a great producer for us for the long run. She'll likely to go Wit next year. We're supporting him heavily and want to give him every chance. She crosses with him well and it would be great if we can develop him into a leading stallion for us. Plus it's always nice to reload with some younger blood when you can every year. It keeps the broodmare band refreshed and when you get a chance to add quality like this, in a great-looking mare, you've got to step up.” Cary continued the trend Saturday of buyers competing to great lengths to bring home their desired horses, saying: “The sale [in general] has been incredibly strong. Really from day one. It's been very hard to buy. We've only bought two mares. We were the underbidder on the top two mares in foal Friday. It's great to see a healthy market. And the weanling market has been terrific as well. I think people feel good about the racing game and the breeding game.” Hip 1541, a son of Vekoma | Keeneland The top weanling of the day was a son of Vekoma (hip 1541) hammered down to Brian Graves's En Fuego Stables for $375,000. Bred in Kentucky by Aymen Moftah Inkeep, the colt was consigned by Columbiana Farm. “[I liked] everything really,” Graves, who also serves as the General Manager at Gainesway, said of the colt. “I thought he was one of the best weanlings here today if not the best and I had my mind made up this morning when I came up to the sale. [The price] did get a little stronger than I thought. I [initially] said a number and then I went past that number because I had my mind made up. I don't know what exactly it was about the horse that made me feel that way, but I just had to have him.” By leading second-crop sire Vekoma, he is out of an unraced Nyquist half-sister to GI Xpressbet Florida Derby runner up State of Honor (To Honor and Serve). “Vekoma is doing great,” Graves said. “For any second-crop stallion to surpass $11,000,000 in earnings means that he must be a special stallion in the making. Hopefully [his foals] perform that way next year and hopefully it comes with some Grade I winners. I was excited that [his stud fee] was $100,000 this year. It gives me a chance to do well later.” And as for the state of the market? Graves needed few words to describe what buyers are experiencing in Lexington. “[The market is] absolutely savage.” The November Sale continues Sunday and runs through Tuesday with all sessions beginning at 10 a.m. The post Keeneland November Surges Past 2024 Total As Book 3 Ends appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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