A share in leading French sire Le Havre offered online by Arqana has been sold for €300,000. The sale generated 10 bids between five different bidders, the final bid on the 1/50th share by Montfort et Préaux, acting as agent for an as-yet unknown client, values the 14-year-old at €15 million. A share in Le
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The saying of ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” rests easily on the shoulders of Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap (10f) winner Combatant. and SW 8 for Wootton Bassett @Haras_d_Etreham https://t.co/MwFcS0AtdT — Pedigree Update (@pedigreeupdate) March 10, 2020 Having had 14 starts in stakes races without success previously, Combatant loomed at the
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Saturday’s Grade 3 Florida Oaks (1 1/16th miles) on turf winner Outburst is the second stakes winner from the first-crop of Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Outstrip. Also the winner of the Group 3 Champagne Stakes over seven furlongs at two, Outstrip went on to finish third behind Kingman and Night Of Thunder in
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Irish-bred Fifty Stars made it Group wins on consecutive Saturday’s at Flemington with a strong win in the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m). A 110,000 guineas purchase by Queensland-based agent John Foote out of the Airlie Stud draft at the 2016 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Fifty Stars is the 13th Gr.1 winner for Sea The
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Two-year-old Cool Aza Beel is the 20th Group 1 winner for Savabeel following his comfortable win in Saturday’s Railway Stakes over 1200m at Ellerslie. Cool Aza Beel has now won four of his six starts and has laid a strong claim to the Champion Two-Year-Old in New Zealand title that will be decided at the
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A $725,000 Snitzel colt topped the just completed Melbourne Premier yearling sale at Oaklands Junction. The three-quarter brother to Group 3 winner Jukebox (Snitzel) was consigned by Blue Gum Farm on behalf of breeders Neville and Susan Duncan and is the third-highest yearling sold at auction in Victoria. Aquis Farm signed for the September 9
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Victorian stud Yulong has continued its big-spending by securing a controlling stake in Blue Diamond Stakes winner Tagaloa. Yulong secured a share of CF Orr Stakes winner Alabama Express earlier in the week before beating out strong competition from Hunter Valley studs for a large stake in Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa). The Trent Busuttin and Natalie
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Hall of Fame member and breed-shaping sire A P Indy died of natural causes in his stable at his longtime home, Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, on February 21. The son of Seattle Slew was 31. A P Indy amply fulfilled all the marketing cliches. Regally-bred, a sale-topping yearling who became a classic winner and
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The death has been announced of Grade 1 winner Preach at the age of 31. Claiborne Farm announced via Twitter on February 19 that Preach, a grade 1-winning homebred, had died due to the infirmities of old age. “With a heavy (heart) we share that one of the queens of Claiborne Farm, Preach has passed
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The Grade 3 Kyodo News Service Hai (1800m) winner Darlington Hall is the 51st stakes winner for New Approach. The Godolphin-owned 3yo is inbred 3×4 to three-quarter brothers Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev and has won two of his four starts, placing in the other two for trainer Tetsuya Kimura. Bred by Canning Bloodstock, Darlington Hall
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