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A sale by sealed bid for the 20% minority interest in reigning Horse of the Year Curlin failed to produce an acceptable offer.
A state judge had ordered the minority share of Curlin be sold to help satisfy a $42 million judgment against the horse’s minority owners, William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham. Prospective buyers had until Wednesday to submit the bid.
The 80% majority interest held by winemaker Jess Jackson isn’t affected by the sale. Kevin McGee, vice president of Stonestreet Stables, which owns the 80% majority of the race horse Curlin, said Jess Jackson will wait to see what happens in a private sale.
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Love Handles rallied to win by a head in the $43,880 Americana Community Center Purse on Wednesday at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby.
Ridden by jockey Robby Albarado, Love Handles covered 1 mile on turf in 1:36.31 for her sixth win in 26 career starts.
Love Handles paid $9.20, $4.80 and $3.40, while Royal Leah returned $3.60 and $2.60. Cure for Sale was another 3/4 of a length back in third and paid $6.20.
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Mushka topped the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale session on Tuesday, drawing a bid of $2.4 million from Elizabeth Moran’s Brushwood Stable.
The 3-year-old filly by Empire Maker out of the stakes-winning Seeking the Gold mare Sluice, Mushka won the Grade II Demoiselle Stakes at 2 and her last start, an allowance race on opening day of Keeneland’s fall meet.
Franny Abbott, acting as agent for Moran, said Mushka will remain in training with Bill Mott. Mushka was consigned by Eaton Sales, agent for Zayat Stables LLC.
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Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown has settled in at his new home at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky over the weekend after being shipped from New York.
The 3-year-old colt Big Brown’s horse racing career ended last month when he injured his right front foot while working out at Aqueduct. Big Brown retired with 7 wins in 8 career starts, including victories in the first two legs of the Triple Crown before finishing last in the Belmont Stakes.
Race horse Big Brown’s initial stallion fee for 2009 has been set at $65,000. That number could change in the future depending on how his offspring do on the track.
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Mare Better Than Honour, dam of back-to-back Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and champion Rags to Riches, set a world Thoroughbred auction record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect November 2 when her price soared to $14 million during the Fasig-Tipton November select mixed sale in Lexington, Kentucky.
Southern Equine’s Michael Moreno, who owned 70% of the 2007 broodmare of the year, bid $14 million to keep her–a price that eclipsed the previous broodmare record by $3.5 million. John Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms had owned the other 30%.
“Best mare in the world,” he said. “Who knows. You don’t plan this kind of thing. It evolves.”
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Last year’s Eclipse Award winning older female Ginger Punch hs been retired from horse racing to become a broodmare for breeder/owner Frank Stronach. Breeding plans are undecided.
In her last start, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff champion Ginger Punch was never a factor in the 2008 edition, the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, and finished sixth to undefeated Zenyatta.
The 5-year-old Ginger Punch retired with a record of 12-6-2 from 22 starts earning $3,065,603.
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Horses worth watching, a list of runners compiled by handicapper/turf writer Greg Melikov that should do well or improve significantly next time out, won eight times, ran second eight times and finished third five times since Sept. 13. These thoroughbreds are worth considering no matter your betting choice or preferred racebook.
Smart and Fancy: Shuffled back inside near turn, raced ninth and last more than seven lengths behind after three-eighths of a mile, swung wide into stretch, rallied from fifth to make up two lengths and finished second by a neck at five furlongs on a good turf course Sept. 27 at Philadelphia Park.
American Cruiser: Stalked pace three wide a head and a length back in third after a half-mile…
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Horse of the Year Curlin is back at Churchill Downs, home of the 2009 Kentucky Derby, after finishing fourth to Raven’s Pass in the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Oak Tree at Santa Anita Park.
North American horse racing’s all-time earnings leader Curlin returned to the Churchill Downs track around 5 pm and was led off a van by assistant trainer Scott Blasi as race horse trainer Steve Asmussen looked on.
Steve Asmussen said the chestnut colt Curlin came out of his setback in good shape, but immediate plans for his future have not been set. He said no decision has been made on whether Curlin’s unsuccessful bid to repeat last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic victory at Monmouth Park would be the last horse race of Curlin’s career.
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Princess Haya of Jordan and Darley Stable’s Raven’s Pass, ridden by jockey Lanfranco Dettori, wins the $4,580,000 Breeders’ Cup Classic and foiled Horse of the Year Curlin’s bid to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic for a second straight year on October 25 Breeders’ Cup Day Saturday at Santa Anita Park.
Trained by John Gosden, Raven’s Pass covered 1 1/4 miles in 1:59.27 and paid $29, $15.80 and $8. Henrythenavigator, under jockey John Velazquez, placed second and returned $22 and $11.20. Tiago with jockey Mike Smith aboard came in third and paid $7 to show.
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Ballymacoll Farm’s Conduit, ridden by jockey Ryan Moore, wins the $2,926,620 Breeders’ Cup Turf on October 25 Breeders’ Cup Day Saturday at Santa Anita Park.
Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Conduit covered 1 1/2 miles on turf in 2:23.42 and paid $13.60, $8.40 and $5.80. Eagle Mountain, under jockey Kevin Shea, placed second and returned $9.60 and $6.40. Dancing Forever with jockey Rene Douglas aboard came in third and paid $12.80 to show.
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