BloodHorse.com | Horse Racing News

BloodHorse.com Articles for "ben glass"

Yearling Market Roars Through Book Three

Yearling Market Roars Through Book Three

Keeneland September yearling sale shows continued strength during its seventh session with 35.9% rise in gross, 37.8% in average, and 26.5% in median over 2010 figures.

 Sunday, September 18, 2011
F-T Review: Looking Back at the July Sale

F-T Review: Looking Back at the July Sale

Read what some participants in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling sale had to say about the market.

 Monday, July 18, 2011
Lemon Drop Kid Colt Sells for $230,000 at FT

Lemon Drop Kid Colt Sells for $230,000 at FT

A colt by Lemon Drop Kid consigned by Warrendale Sales was purchased by Ben Glass, agent for Gary and Mary West, for $230,000 at the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale in Lexington July 12.

 Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Wests Buy Champion Milwaukee Appeal

Wests Buy Champion Milwaukee Appeal

Gary and Mary West have privately purchased Canadian champion Milwaukee Appeal from C. E. C. Farms and have retired her to their broodmare band.

 Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Gross Rises in September Sale's 9th Session

Gross Rises in September Sale's 9th Session

Average is virtually the same as last year and median is the same.

 Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Malibu Moon Colt Brings Top Price

Malibu Moon Colt Brings Top Price

Weanlings commanded the top prices Sunday, Nov. 15, as Keeneland's November breeding stock sale approached the halfway point.

 Sunday, November 15, 2009
Medaglia d'Oro Colt Paces Keeneland Sale

Medaglia d'Oro Colt Paces Keeneland Sale

Stockplace paid highest price of $290,000 Nov. 8 for a colt by Medaglia d'Oro during the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

 Saturday, November 08, 2008

Grade II Winner High Limit Retired

High Limit, a two-time grade II winner this year, has been retired from racing.

 Monday, August 14, 2006

Mass Media to Return to Training

Mass Media, a grade I winner for Gary and Mary West, will resume training instead of entering stud.

 Sunday, January 15, 2006

Surgery for Trainer Norman After Accident

Trainer Cole Norman was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident at his Haughton, La., home Dec. 19. Norman was scheduled to undergo surgery on his neck Wednesday at the LSU Medical Center near Shreveport, La.

 Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Gross From Middle Market Days Up 23.23%

The juggernaut that is the Keeneland September yearling sale continues to motor along at a high speed.

 Thursday, September 22, 2005

Grade II Winner Baptize to Spain

Gary and Mary West have sold their grade II winner Baptize to Rodolfo Lamperti for stallion duty in Spain.

 Thursday, February 17, 2005

Millionaire Dollar Bill Euthanized

Gary and Mary West's millionaire grade II winner Dollar Bill, who proved popular enough to warrant his own Web site, was euthanized Aug. 3 after foundering.

 Thursday, August 05, 2004

Dollar Bill Retired; Stud Plans Unknown

Dollar Bill, who ran third in the July 5 Suburban Handicap (gr. I) in his only start this year, has been retired. The 5-year-old horse, owned by Gary and Mary West, is by Peaks and Valleys out of the Saratoga Six mare Saratoga Dame.

 Friday, September 26, 2003

No Jim Dandy, Travers for Buddha

Wood Memorial Stakes (gr. I) winner Buddha will not start in either the Jim Dandy Stakes (gr. II) on Aug. 4 or the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga.

 Tuesday, July 16, 2002