Trainer Graham Motion, fresh off a grade I win in the Hollywood Turf Cup, guns for another at Hollywood Park when he sends out three entrants in the $250,000 Matriarch Stakes on the turf Nov. 25, including defending champion Gypsy’s Warning. Motion, who sent heavily favored Sanagas from his Maryland training base to grab the […]
As Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom resumes training for his four-year-old campaign next year, trainer Graham Motion hopes Eclipse Award voters don’t forget about the colt’s three-year-old season, which was cut short by an injury in the Belmont Stakes. “Ultimately, he won the classic race that everyone wants to win in what was his first […]
Overall the fifth and sixth highest prices (first and second excluding dispersal horses) Denali Stud sold Looking for $340,000 and On Demand for $310,000 on November 10 at Keeneland. Denali was the second leading consignor by gross at $1,802,000, selling 15 of 17 hips offered. Denali’s average price for the day $120,133, was the thir […]
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 […]
Bobby 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 […]
Trainer 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 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 […]
Pluck 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 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 […]
With 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 […]
