In July, the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association announced it was endorsing the American Association of Equine Practitioners protocol on pre-sale video scopes as the organization sought to create uniformity and increase buyer confidence with the hope the technology would become more widely utilized at auctions in the U.S. Three weeks ago, Keeneland announced it [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The two-day Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale couldn't match up to its record-setting 2018 renewal, but when the dust settled Monday evening at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion, the auction had seen its fourth straight record-priced yearling. The record bid came from Larry Best, who said he had only seen the [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY–The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale opened Sunday evening with a session of steady action capped by a son of Constitution who sold for $340,000 to trainer John Terranova. “It was a solid opening session to the New York-Bred sale,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. “There was lots of interest across the [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Action returns to the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion Sunday evening with the first of two sessions of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale in Saratoga. The auction, which gets underway at 7 p.m., comes four days after Fasig-Tipton's record-setting Saratoga Select Sale, and will look to follow up on back-to-back record-setting [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – A year ago, Jonathan Thorne sent a son of Pioneerof the Nile through the sales ring at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Yearlings Sale and watched as the youngster sold for a sale-record $600,000. It was a gratifying moment for the longtime New York breeder who has been on the front lines [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The countdown to next year's inaugural Saudi Cup officially began Wednesday evening with a gala organized by the race's officials in the walking ring at the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds in Saratoga. The race, scheduled to be run next Feb. 29 at King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh, will be run over 1800 [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale opened its two-day run at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion Monday evening, with a pair of yearlings by Tapit causing the biggest fireworks during a session which produced slight increases in both average and median compared with the auction's 2018 opener. “It was an outstanding [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale will look to follow up on its record-setting 2018 renewal when bidding gets underway at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. “I think there is a very good group of horses on the grounds,” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. said Sunday [...]

When Joe Murphy purchased the 350-acre Stoneleigh Farm 13 years ago, the Lexington businessman admitted the land was mostly for “relaxation,” but the operation hit the big time as the breeder of multiple Grade I winner Exaggerator (Curlin) and again when selling that star's half-sister by Medaglia d'Oro for $1.3 million at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga [...]

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 2nd-SAR, $90,000, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, post time: 1:36 p.m. ET Castleton Lyons' homebred LEXINTONIA (Malibu Moon) makes her debut for trainer Christophe Clement. The bay filly is the first foal out of graded placed Antonia Autumn (Bernstein), a half-sister to champion Gio Ponti and to Grade I-placed Bon Jovi [...]

Gamine (Into Mischief), who sold to Michael Lund Petersen for an auction-record $1.8 million at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale two months ago, continued to train forwardly in Southern California for Bob Baffert. The filly turned in a bullet five-furlong work at Del Mar Thursday, covering the distance from the gate in 1:00.00 [...]

Sayjay Racing, Greg Hall and Brooke Hubbard's One Bad Boy (Twirling Candy), a 3 1/2-length winner of the June 29 Queen's Plate at Woodbine, will look to annex the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown when he goes postward in the Prince of Wales S. at Fort Erie Tuesday evening. The dark bay is the [...]