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Steve Dance, a senior member of Fasig-Tipton’s auction team for five decades, has died at the age of 78 after an apparent heart attack at his home in Jarrettsville, Maryland. Dance first became involved with Fasig-Tipton when befriending John Finney and Larry Ensor, all subsequent luminaries of the auction, and he was to become a full-time auctioneer and bid spotter for the company in 1972. He di ...
The last two weeks have seen the return of spectators to racecourses in what is hopefully the gradual return to normality for the British racing industry. With that in mind, now is the perfect time to reflect on the lessons learnt from the past 15 months and what changes can be made going forward. The first lesson, and one that was excellently summarised in the Racing Post's Big Read on May 9; is ...
The rearranged Arqana Breeze-Up Sale takes place at Goffs UK on Friday; here we pick out five lots who could well take the Doncaster auction by storm. Lot 16: By sire of the moment Siyouni, Gaybrook Lodge Stud's colt is out of a high-class American performer in Giants Play, a daughter of the great Giant's Causeway who won the New York Stakes for Christophe Clement. A $850,000 purchase by John War ...
Tattersalls Cheltenham May Sale was the setting for Cormac Doyle’s most successful Irish point-to-point graduate to go through the ring so far and the Wexford-based consignor returns with another promising recruit on his hands. Back in 2018 the buying partnership of Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins went to £235,000 to secure Doyle’s Stowlin winner Monkfish, who now boasts back-to-back Gr.1 titles a ...
It promised to be a day like no other and it delivered, so much so it prompted industry figures to label the May 25 opening session of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale as the most extraordinary they had witnessed in decades. Eighteen mares sold for AU$1 million or more, 11 of them in the Shadwell Stud Australasia dispersal sale, and champion New Zealand mare Melody Belle coul ...
Australian Bloodstock’s latest purchase Lambo (Protectionist) is set to bid for Classic honours after pleasing connections in his most-recent outing. Trained in Germany by Miroslav Rulec, the colt showed his well being with a thirdplaced finish when heading to France to contest Longchamp’s Prix Hocquart (Gr.2, 2200m) on Monday, beaten just a length by the winner Bubble Gift (Nathaniel). Lambo is ...
Expectations were high for the Shadwell Stud Australasia dispersal, but 11 million-dollar mares changing hands in not much longer than an hour still had many experienced participants in awe of what had just occurred. Such was the appetite from buyers to take advantage of the rare event, brought on by the ill-health and then death of Shadwell founder Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, it led to ...
Mithen revealed that his $1.8 million purchase Minhaaj, the first lot sold through the Shadwell draft, would remain in training next season rather than be retired to stud. The VRC Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (Gr.3, 1200m) winner, who has raced just nine times for Lindsay Park, is out of Telaawa (Lonhro), a winning, city-placed half-sister to Gr.3 winner Charmed Harmony (Hussonet) and South Afric ...
Rosemont Stud’s goal of becoming a leading player in the sales ring, as well as on the racetrack, took another big-spending turn yesterday with principal Anthony Mithen and his brother-in-law Nigel Austin spending almost $10 million on ten mares to boost the quality of its broodmare band. The most expensive of the haul was Gr.1 winner Bella Vella (Commands) who was knocked down to Rosemont Stud f ...
It was no surprise to see Coolmore playing a key role at the top-end of the market and it was Mizzy (Zoustar) who Tom Magnier had his eye on less than an hour into the sale, going to $2.2 million to secure her. Mizzy is the second high-priced daughter of Zoustar (Northern Meteor) bought by Magnier in as many years having gone to a Magic Millions record of $4.2 million for the three-time Gr.1 winn ...