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Spendthrift Farm is a thoroughbred race horse breeding farm and burial site in Lexington, Kentucky, currently owned by Eric & Tammy Gustavson. [1] It was founded by Leslie Combs II and named for the great stallion Spendthrift, who was owned by Combs' ancestor, Daniel Swigert of Elmendorf Farm. Spendthrift was the great-grandfather of Man o' War.
Its first headquarters were in Madison Square Garden in New York, and Fasig-Tipton initially sold high-class road and carriage horses in addition to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing stock. [ 3 ] Fasig-Tipton's main horse auction in the early 20th century was referred to as "Old Glory."
The sire (father) of Seize the Grey, a gray colt, is the champion horse Arrogate; he was bred by the late Audrey Otto as Jamm Ltd. [5] His dam (mother) is Smart Shopping whose sire was the Canadian Hall of Famer Smart Strike. Seize the Grey was bought for $300,000 from the Mill Ridge Sales consignment at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig Tipton's select ...
Muth is a bay colt who was bred by the Don Alberto Corporation, out of the winning Uncle Mo mare Hoppa. Muth is the mare's first foal. Muth was first sold in 2022 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale as part of the Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency consignment for US$190,000 to the Bishop Bloodstock.
Tuscan Gold is possible to compete in the $2 million, Grade 1 Preakness Stakes on May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.. The post position draw for the Preakness is set for Monday, May 13 ...
Sierra Leone's sire Gun Runner was the third-ranked sire by both gross ($5,635,000) and average ($704,375) from eight horses sold of nine offered at the sale. [4] In 2023, Gun Runner was the third ranked sire in progeny earnings with $17,532,118. [ 5 ]
The horse's owner Jon Ebbert purchased the future champion for $35,000 from Gainesway's consignment at the 2021 September Yearling Sale at Keeneland. [8] Arcangelo was bred and foaled in Kentucky by Don Alberto, an international breeding and racing operation whose proprietors are mother and son Chilean nationals Liliana Solari and Carlos Heller ...
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.