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Not entertainment for all! It definitely a gambling industry, and they should be taking the good with the bad as such! Morally and ethically wrong that participants are treated differently! How they get away with it is very hard to fathom in this day and age? -
The minister in charge says it’s not. It’s the entertainment industry. -
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Drexel Hill, runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), returns to the starting gate for her first race since the Run for the Lilies in the $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) Nov. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack.View the full article -
The thing is if they are wanting to run a show like this to encourage wagering, then have people on that actually have enough ability to be able to make money! for them to be talking about PROFITLAND is just not that clever, they should be making money most weeks with the way the TAB lets them offload as much as they like with no restrictions! They might as well have on different drunks on each week wagering, would be just as successful and a helluva lot more fun for the viewers!
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by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale continued to churn out double-digit increases over its 2024 renewal as the eight-day auction's Book 2 section concluded Thursday. “It felt like a complete continuation from yesterday,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said Thursday evening. “The momentum was there and there was the same enthusiasm for quality stock. The market never seemed to waver all day. It seemed to be steady and strong and consistent. Which was very encouraging. It jumped out of the gates well and hit the wire hard.” Through the two Book 2 sessions, 474 horses sold through the ring for a gross of $91,389,000. The Book 2 average of $192,804 was up 25.9% from 2024, while the median of $160,000 was up 28.0%. Twenty-five horses sold for $500,000 or more over the two sessions, compared to just five to hit that mark last year. During last year's Book 2 section of the November sale, 413 horses sold through the ring for a gross of $63,236,500. The average was $153,115 and the median was $125,000. The 4-year-old broodmare Taylor Swifter (American Pharoah), in foal to Flightline, brought the highest bid of Thursday's session when selling to Bryant Prentice's Pursuit of Success for $700,000. The mare was consigned by Gainesway. “The mares have been the flagbearers of the last few days,” Lacy said. “As long as they are not overly exposed, there is a market for them.” Through the two Book 2 sections, 200 weanlings sold through the ring for a gross of $34,496,000. The average was $172,480–up 27.4% from last year–and the median of $150,000 was up 36.4%. During Book 2 in 2024, 157 weanlings sold through the ring for $21,257,000 for an average of $135,395 and median of $110,000. “The weanling market was sensational again today,” said Keeneland Senior Director of Sales Operations Cormac Breathnach. “We had 239 sales through the ring today to 179 different buyers. So we are maintaining yesterday's ratio. We are into day three and the consistency of the day is really supported by the depth of the buyer base that is here. The top 20 weanlings sold today were by 19 different stallions and bought by 19 different buyers.” A colt by Nyquist (hip 830) was the highest-priced weanling on the day, selling for $600,000 to the phone bid of Clover Leaf Bloodstock. Bred by Viking Breeding and consigned by Indian Creek, the chestnut is out of Intense Honor (Honor Code), a half-sister to graded winners Money Multiplier (Lookin at Lucky) and Intense Holiday (Harlan's Holiday). “We thought he would sell very well today,” said Indian Creek's Sarah Sutherland. “Obviously, you are always thrilled when it actually pans out. We had end-users and pinhookers on him–everybody appreciated the horse.” Indian Creek offered its first weanlings of the Keeneland sale Thursday. “We had one earlier that sold great and the Nyquist colt obviously sold super,” Sutherland said. “We are two for two and they have both gone to great homes. “I think it's the same old story, when you have a quality horse with a nice pedigree, they bring premium prices.” Despite the competitive weanling market, Tami Bobo has been a prolific buyer through the first three sessions of the Keeneland sale. The Ocala pinhooker signed for five weanlings Thursday, bringing her total Keeeland November haul to 13 head purchased for $1.81 million. “The market is strong, but I think if you put in the time and diligence there are horses to be bought,” said Bobo. “Like any sale, we all get hyped on how the market is playing and I think a lot of us talk ourselves out of buying horses because of that. I felt like there was value and that's why I signed a lot of tickets today. There is going to be a marketplace with the new beautiful bill, so in 10 months, if we really evaluate the marketplace, I think there are a lot of us who need to put money in the market and I think there are a lot of people who will be there at the other end.” The Keeneland November sale continues through Tuesday with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m. Swifties Line Up for Taylor Swifter In a moment of life imitating art, Taylor Swifter, the four-legged version, received plenty of attention while leading the way with a $700,000 final bid early in Thursday's Book 2 finale at the Keeneland November Sale. Consigned by Gainesway, the daughter of American Pharoah, who is in foal to Flightline, was purchased by Pursuit of Success' Bryant Prentice. Handling the signing duties on the 4-year-old filly was agent Archie St. George. “She's a very nice physical,” said St. George. “She's by American Pharoah, who looks to be possibly a very good broodmare sire. And she's in foal to an exciting stallion, Flightline. The team, Mr. Prentice and Bill Oppenheim seemed to like the mare.” The unraced filly is out of SW and GSP Taylor S (Medaglia d'Oro), herself a daughter of GSW Miss Macy Sue (Trippi). Her siblings include GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and GI Woodward Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song) and GSW and GISP Not This Time. Bred by the Albaugh Family, Taylor Swifter was a $725,000 KEESEP yearling purchase before bringing $170,000 at this season's Fasig-Tipton February Sale. Taylor Swifter's filly by Flightline brought $1.5 million at Keeneland September in 2024. Her brother by Into Mischief, named Taylor's Version, won a pair of races at Churchill Downs this season. “It's a big pedigree with stallions on there, Not This Time and Liam's Map,” said St. George. “There's a lot of upsides to her and there's a half-brother that potentially could run.” “She will go back to us now and, hopefully, we'll have a Flightline colt, and [her offspring] can run.”–CBoss Apple Picker Goes to Family & Friends for $650K Early in Thursday's Book 2 session, Grade III winner Apple Picker (Connect) drew $650,000 from the partnership of Martha Jane Mulholland and Judy Pryor, who signed as Family & Friends. “I buy horses mostly on conformation and she was a beautifully-conformed mare,” said Mulholland. “They have to be pretty first, and then we start looking how much race record we can afford.” Consigned by Elite, Hip 678 is out of Silent Fright (Yes It's True), a half-sister to Canadian Champion Grass Horse Grand Adventure (Grand Slam). Victorious in the GIII Barbara Fritchie Stakes in a career that saw her amass $478,433 in earnings, Apple Picker hails from the family of Classic-winning filly Lakeway. Pryor's early experience stems from the Quarter Horse show industry and the Nebraska-based horsewoman maintains about 50 Thoroughbreds at her 400-acre Pryor Ranch near Omaha. “Judy was in the Quarter Horse show business and then she came into the racing business in Nebraska a few years ago,” explained Mulholland. “She is trying to step up the game a little bit with some really quality mares. We have a lot of high aspirations and goals for racing. In the meantime, we are going to breed some mares and make some money.” Pryor appears to have somewhat loftier ambitions. “I want to win the Kentucky Derby and the Oaks!” she said. “I am not going to work this hard to say I am going to win in Nebraska. But I do want to win there, too.” Also purchased at Keeneland this week, the team signed for Ms. Tart (Maximus Mischief) (Hip 141), a Book 1 buy that brought $375,000 and Low Mileage (Mineshaft) (Hip 477), in foal to Nyquist, for $385,000. “She is a gorgeous mare in foal to a very hot stallion,” Mulholland said of Low Mileage. “The way the market is going, I expect we can get out on a foal or two and if not, we are pleased to run them.” Additionally, the partnership secured Hip 539, Promise of Hope (Ghostzapper) for $240,000 and Hip 851 Know It All Audrey (Shackleford), a $310,000 investment. The former is in foal to National Treasure, while the latter has a Vekoma in utero. All the mares are expected to head to Mulholland Springs to foal and board. “We are excited about buying a mare in foal to [new sire] National Treasure,” said Mulholland. Asked about who they expect to breed to the partnership's open mares, Mulholland added, “I think for [Apple Picker], we can go with a little bit bigger stallion with more stretch. She has all the power and muscle so she has a lot to give to the stallion.” “We'll go around tomorrow and look at the freshman horses as well as the wonderful proven horses like Yaupon and Omaha Beach and of course, all the big stallions.” Also acting as a seller, Mulholland Springs sold all six of its offerings through the ring for gross receipts of $1.355 million. Averaging $225,833, the consignment was headed by a weanling colt by Taiba (Hip 699), who realized $385,000 on Thursday. “We have done very well, we've been very blessed,” said Mulholland of the operation's selling activity at Keeneland. “You have to focus on what the market wants. The market is wanting the solid, proven stallions like the Yaupons and Omaha Beach and the top horses like Into Mischief and Not This Time. She continued, “We want solid commercial stallions because the market is forcing us in that direction and we will try to give them what they want.”—Cboss Taiba Colt Pays for Mulholland Springs Martha Jane Mulholland says she has one criteria above all others when she buys a mare. “I try to always buy very, very pretty mares, she said. “Above all else, they have to be pretty.” She found a mare that fit the bill at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton February sale, going to $120,000 to acquire the then 9-year-old stakes-winning mare Bet She Wins (First Samurai) from the Lothenbach dispersal. “She was a very pretty mare,” Mulholland said of Bet She Wins. “I was very pleased to get her for that price.” Bet She Wins' filly by Gun Runner sold as a yearling at that same auction for $225,000 and Mulholland bred her new mare to that stallion's son Taiba, who was standing his first season at Spendthrift for a fee of $35,000. “I think Taiba is one of the most beautiful sons of Gun Runner that is standing at stud right now,” Mulholland said. “And I was hopeful with the kind of body this mare has and that Taiba has, that we would get a stunning foal. And we did.” Bet She Wins' Taiba weanling colt (hip 699) went through the ring at Keeneland Thursday, selling for $385,000 to Go Go Greys, BSW/Crow, agent. “Well, this was a little more than I was expecting,” Mulholland said of the result. “But the market is so strong that, at the same time, I am not surprised.” Bet She Wins is currently in foal to Muth. @JessMartiniTDN The post Shake It Off: $700k Taylor Swifter on Top as Gains Continue at Keeneland 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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