Curtis Garrison

With Spanish moss hanging smokily in the sunbeams, live oaks spread their embrace like wise old graybeards in conference. They make the pasture a little harder to maintain, but it's worth the extra effort to give the horses all that deep shade during the dog days of summer. And while Dr. Krista Seltzer tends to apologize that there's "nothing fancy" about Solera Farm, in many ways it appeals as an edifying alternative to more industrial operations. Certainly there are a couple of stallions here exemplary of the independent outlook Krista...

"The venture was a disaster and I fell in love with it," Ed Seltzer said of his initial foray into racing nearly 65 years ago. Now, 90, Seltzer is in the midst of dispersing his bloodstock and an offer will be horses from families he has cultivated over six decades. On offer during Monday's first session of the Keeneland September Yearling sale will be filly by Gun Runner (hip 117) from the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment. Seltzer's involvement with the family goes back five generations. "We bought Overpowering and...