Duvet Day Flies Home to Score in Astra Stakes

January 25, 2023

2022 Keeneland Horses of Racing Age graduate DUVET DAY displayed a scintillating turn of foot and exploded through the stretch to win the Astra Stakes at Santa Anita by 1 ¼ lengths for owners Burt and Jane Bacharach, and Richard Schatz.

Bromans Go Off Script in Bidding for Ack Naughty

January 13, 2023

  Ack Naughty  didn’t fit the normal standards that Chester and Mary Broman look for at a sale; but when the mare is in foal to Upstart   and has a son pointing towards the Kentucky Derby (G1) — exceptions will be made. When the opportunity to purchase the 10-year-old mare consigned as Hip 420B during Day 1 of […]

Five Elite Graduates Compete in New Year’s Weekend Stakes Races

December 30, 2022

A total of five Elite Sales graduates are entered in stakes races this weekend, beginning with last out stakes winner HYBRID ECLIPSE, who runs in today’s Carousel Stakes at Laurel Park for The Elkstone Group. Tomorrow, FRONT RUN THE FED, who won the Van Clief Stakes at Colonial Downs in July, heads to Santa Anita […]

Ack Naughty, Dam of G2 Los Al Futurity Winner, Featured in Elite Keeneland January Draft

ACK NAUGHTY, a multiple stakes-placed daughter of Afleet Alex whose second foal, Practical Move, won the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) by 3¼ lengths on December 17, has been supplemented to the Keeneland January Sale with ELiTE. She sells as Hip 420B during the first session of the sale on Monday, January 9th, for owners Madaket […]

ELiTE Makes Tattersalls December Mare Sale Debut

December 2, 2022

ELiTE Sales launched its first venture into the European sales market this year at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. The two-horse consignment consisted of two fillies with reputable European form. G2P Nazuna sold for 280,000 GNS on behalf of owners Wachtel, Barber, Deutsch, and Pantofel. PE Equine Management signed the ticket. G3W/G2P King’s Harlequin sold […]

G1W Pinehurst Sells to Walmac Farm on Fasig-Tipton Digital

November 23, 2022

G1W PINEHURST, who was campaigned by SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Robert Masterson, Stonestreet Stables, Jay Schoenfarber, Waves Edge Capital, Catherine Donovan, Golconda Stable, and Siena Farm, sold to Gary Broad’s Walmac Farm on Tuesday in a Fasig-Tipton Digital Flash Sale.

Perfect Flight Picks Up First Stakes Win in Zia Park Derby

Perfect Flight, who was purchased by Gary Barber for $160,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Horses of Racing Age Sale, won his first stakes race in yesterday’s $250,000 Zia Park Derby.

Caravel Goes Gate to Wire in G1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint

November 6, 2022

Caravel, who sold for $500,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s Night of the Stars in 2021, captured the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in gate-to-wire fashion yesterday at Keeneland, marking her first G1 win. Congrats to her owners Qatar Racing, Marc Detampel and Madaket Stables!

Hozier Takes River City Stakes

November 14, 2022

Hozier, who sold for $200,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Horses of Racing Age Sale, took the off the turf River City Stakes in gate-to-wire fashion at Churchill Downs last night for new owner Storyteller Racing.

Elite Leads Keeneland Book 2

November 10, 2022

Elite Sales sold 16 of its 17 offerings during Book 2 on Wednesday at Keeneland, leading by gross with total receipts of $4,655,000, more than $500,000 more than its closest closest competitor. The group was topped by LAKE GARDA, who sold in-foal to Uncle, hammered for $600,000 to HR Bloodstock. Elite’s second highest lot on the […]

Elite Sells Two Millionaires, $675,000 Weanling at Fasig-Tipton’s Night of the Stars

November 8, 2022

Elite Sales sold 12 of its 13 offerings at Fasig-Tipton’s Night of the Stars on the night after the Breeders’ Cup, headlined by G1W and 8-time GSW GOING GLOBAL (IRE), who hammered for $2.5 million to BBA Ireland on behalf of Yulong Investments. She was campaigned by CYBT, Michael Dubb, Ray Pagano, Saul Gevertz and Michael […]