Denali Stud is gearing up for a big Keeneland November sale. We have some awesome mares and weanlings on offer, be sure to stop by and see our full consignment. We’ll sell you YOUR #Saturdayafternoonhorse. Check out the pedigrees below for a few Book 1 highlights, selling on November 8th: HIP 244 – FOR ROYALTY […]
Denali Stud has four exciting, high quality mares on offer in the upcoming Fasig Tipton November sale. HIP 101 – MOONLIGHT SKY – will be our first hip through the ring, selling as a Racing/Broodmare Prospect. A half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winning filly ABEL TASMAN, this winning daughter of Sky Mesa is also Stakes-placed. […]
Bolt d’Oro passes Zatter to win the Del Mar Futurity Benoit Photo Bolt d’Oro Wears Down Zatter to Win Del Mar Futurity In its two years of operation, Ruis Racing has done its best work during the summer at Del Mar. In 2016 Union Strike took the Del Mar Debutante (G1) in her second start, […]
08/11/2017 12:00PM Barbara D. Livingston A $1 million Curlin colt sold Aug. 7 was the third seven-figure offering consigned by Denali Stud in the past three renewals of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale is known as one of the industry’s “glitz and glamour” auctions, where high-dollar bidders do […]
Good Luck: Where Opportunity Meets Hard Work
When you have a hand in raising a horse you know could be something special, it’s a vindicating experience to see that horse live up to his potential. Grade 1 Belmont Stakes winner TAPWRIT was a nice looking horse from day one. Tagged to make his sales debut in the Saratoga Select Sale at Fasig […]
In the last 30 years Craig and Holly Bandoroff have developed a world-class operation at their Denali Stud near Paris, Ky. They’ve also developed and nurtured quite a family at their home in Lexington, raising two daughters and a son. Their middle child, Conrad, is currently part of the Godolphin Flying Start program, and upon […]
The 11-10 chalk to improve on his runner-up effort behind undefeated ‘TDN Rising Star’ McCraken (Ghostzapper) in the GIII Sam F. Davis S. Feb. 11, Tapwrit (Tapit) raced through the field of the GII Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby like the proverbial hot knife through butter and rolled home an impressive 4 1/2-length winner. “We […]
Woodford Racing’s Ticonderoga ran off the bench and into the winner’s circle March 4 at Gulfstream Park, taking the $100,000 Palm Beach Stakes (G3T) with a powerful rally. Racing for the first time since a fourth in the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T), 3-year-old Ticonderoga picked up his first graded score. The Tapit colt was second in the Dixiana Bourbon […]
Flatlined, a two-time winner and never off the board in four prior outings on the Gulfstream sod, upended the likes of GISW Divisidero and MGSW Heart to Heart (English Channel) to score a 15-1 upset and earn his first graded win. A romping winner of a rained-off Ellis optional claimer in July, Flatlined lit up […]
