Welcome to the Past The Wire bloodstock section. This is where we feature columns on horse breeding, stallion farms, nicking, and pedigree content. Expert pieces on popular stallions, broodmares and their progeny as well as statistical data on stallions, broodmares and foals. We also feature breeding sale news from Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, Ocala Breeders’, Midlantic and Tattersalls.
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Bolt d'Oro Weanling Hammers for 280k at Fasig-Tipton
POSTED: November 9, 2020
Bolt d’Oro’s first weanlings were offered for auction averaged well into six figures during Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale, topped by a $280,000 filly consigned by...
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Monomoy Girl Sets Record at Star-Studded November Sale
POSTED: November 9, 2020
Fasig-Tipton conducted a successful renewal of The November Sale Sunday at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, KY. The World's Premier Breeding Stock Event featured a selection...
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Multiple G1 winner Vekoma retires to Spendthrift
POSTED: November 9, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Multiple Grade One-winning millionaire Vekoma has been retired from racing and arrived at B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm where the four-year-old son...
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Authentic, Breeders’ Cup Classic & Kentucky Derby hero, retires to Spendthrift
POSTED: November 9, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Authentic, the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, has been retired to B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm in Lexington,...
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Knicks Go lead to victory and track record in Big Ass Fans Dirt Mile
POSTED: November 7, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Korea Racing Authority’s Knicks Go raced to the lead shortly after the start and romped to a 3 ½-length victory over Jesus’ Team...
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Keeneland Sales Produce 76 Entries in Breeders’ Cup World Championships
POSTED: November 4, 2020
Forty-five runners from Keeneland Fall Meet among entries LEXINGTON, Ky. – Seventy-six graduates of Keeneland sales – led in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)...
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Arizona Retired To Stud Under Coolmore Banner At Castlehyde Stud
POSTED: October 30, 2020
Arizona has been retired from racing and will stand under the Coolmore banner at Castlehyde Stud for 2021. “Arizona is a very good-looking and good-moving...
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Classic Empire Colt Leads Final Fasig-Tipton Session
POSTED: October 30, 2020
Classic Empire ended the Fasig-Tipton’s October Yearlings Sale with a bang on Thursday when his colt out of Delay of Game sold for $310,000 to...
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Recent Graded Stakes Winner RIDEFORTHECAUSE Among Latest Supplemental Entries to The November Sale
POSTED: October 29, 2020
Fasig-Tipton has catalogued four new supplemental entries to its 2020 November Sale. These latest entries (catalogued as hips 282-285) are all racing/broodmare prospects with current...
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