Share This: Man o’ War, photograph by Bert Clark Thayer
The 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale is underway and while attending I visited their magnificent library. Currently, the Keeneland library is featuring a photographic exhibit honoring Man o’ War in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
While preparing for the yearling sales this season I had the nice fortune of visiting five Kentucky Thoroughbred farms in just one day. A few farms were new to me and others were more familiar. One farm I had visited before was Gainesway Farm in Lexington, KY. I have been on their stallion tour and stood in awe of the beautiful and great Tapit. Stallion tours are quite popular and I truly enjoy them but there is so much else going on at the horse farms. This time I saw another part of the expansive Gainesway Farm including one of several Thoroughbred graveyards.
Share This: Free Drop Billy at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale, 2016.
I won’t be home for the holiday as I will be laboring on Labor Day. Despite that, there is hope for the holiday, the Hopeful Stakes to be exact. As Saratoga winds down, the nation’s 2 year-old Thoroughbreds are racing forward.
Saratoga Springs is serving up a sweet stakes on Saturday! The 137th running of the Alabama Stakes posts at 5:40 P.M. EDT tonight and with a competitive field of 9 stakes winners there will be some surprises.
Last Sunday, August 6th, Mohaymen was eased in the Alydar Stakes. The dirt race of 1 and 1/8 miles (9 furlongs) was not the comeback we had hoped for and thus his connections chose to send him home for some rest and relaxation. Home for Mohaymen is Shadwell Farm.
The Ohio Derby at ThistleDown was so much fun that I just couldn’t wait to visit another one of Ohio’s 3 Thoroughbred racetracks. A road trip ensued and I was back in Ohio this weekend. Belterra Park was my destination of choice for live racing!
Though only a sparse seven sophomores dare to try, each contender for the Haskell Invitational Stakes has already achieved graded stakes success. A 1st place finish in this race secures a nice purse, a stunning trophy and an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Classic. The 50th running of the Haskell is going to be sensational!
The 69 Summer Stakes are spectacular at Saratoga! This Friday, 7/21/17, live action returns to The Spa track and it will be a fast and fantastic 40 days for racing fans. Opening weekend spotlights filly and mare stakes. Some of America’s best will race including the talented, Lady Eli!
Share This: Hip 295 , a filly to Maclean’s Music and Inner Groove.
These summer sales were certainly sizzling. This week Fasig-Tipton in Lexington, KY hosted two sales. On back-to-back hot and humid days the Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale and The July Sale of Selected Yearlings took place. I attended the later and I saw plenty of fantastic bloodstock.
