Highlighting the day for Denali on Nov. 8, was the race mare Gypsy’s Warning, going to Flaxman Holdings for $1,050,000. Just a few hips earlier the other mare for Team Valor, Daveron sold to Live Oak Stud for $750,000. Both mares are in training for the Grade I Matriarch at Hollywood Park and we wish […]
HER SMILE LEADS DENALI CONSIGNMENT AT FASIG-TIPTON NOVEMBERBobby Flay’s HER SMILE came five wide in to the stretch and rallied willingly, beaten only 1 1/2 lengths in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint-G1 on Friday, by Sunday night she had changed hands at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, going to Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs for $1,000,000. Denali sold the daughter of Include […]
DENALI FOALED AND RAISED BC CHAMPION PLUCK RECOVERING FROM EMERGENCY SURGERYPluck underwent successful surgery on Nov. 3 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, where he was rushed after exhibiting signs of colic a few hours before his scheduled return in the Commonwealth Turf Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs. Surgeons found that Pluck was suffering from a torsion, or full twist, of the large […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM TO BEGIN GALLOPINGTrainer Graham Motion said Thursday that Animal Kingdom, who has not raced since finishing fifth in the Belmont Stakes – a race from which he emerged with a slab fracture to his left hind leg – will begin galloping Monday at the Fair Hill training center in Maryland. Animal Kingdom, as well as Wood Memorial […]
PLUCK RETURNS TO CHURCHILL IN COMMONWEALTH TURFPluck will make his first appearance at Churchill Downs since winning last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) when he faces a full field of fellow 3-year-olds in the $100,000 Commonwealth Turf Stakes (gr. IIIT) Nov. 3. Pluck was foaled and raised at Denali Stud. Team Valor International’s homebred, campaigned in partnership with Tom […]
DENALI HAS HIGH HOPES FOR 2011 BREEDING STOCK SALESWith a great deal of activity between Lexington and Louisiville in the coming days, Denali Stud sales team is in over drive preparing for the sales starting on Sunday and continuing through most of November. At Fasig-Tipton on November 6, the day after Breeders’ Cup, Denali offers four racing/broodmare prospects and one broodmare. First up […]
DENALI CLIENTS MAKING BREEDERS’ CUP NOISEDenali sale graduateUncle Mo has been installed as the favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Respite Farm bred the colt by Indian Charlie out of Playa Maya. Denali Stud sold UNCLE MO at the 2008 Keeneland November Sale and in 2010 Respite Farm and Denali sold his dam at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. “We has […]
DENALI COLTS TOPS FRIST SESSION AT FT KY OCTOBERA colt by Medaglia d’Oro out of Especially Me sold for $200,000 to Debbie Easter, agent for Peter Deutsch. Denali offered the athletic bay as hip 16 at the opening session on Oct. 24, where he highlighted a lively day of selling at Fasig-Tipton, where numbers soared from last year’s corresponding figures. The average of […]
MOTION BIG GUNS ON COMEBACK TRAILSidelined sophomores Animal Kingdom and Tobys Corner were both ridden under tack for the first time since beginning their rehab at Graham Motion’s Fair Hill base. Denali graduate and Team Valor International’s Animlal Kingdom has been out of action since finishing a troubled sixth in the G1 Belmont S. June 11. He emerged from the […]
TRAINER MOTION PUTS HIS MARES TO THE TEST IN KEENELAND’S FIRST LADYIf there is one thing stablemates Daveron and Gypsy’s Warning have in common, it’s that they’ve each been a little deceiving in their results this year. For a mare that trainer Graham Motion says gets utterly stressed by life on the racetrack, Daveron has won all three of her starts in 2011. And while Motion […]
