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Pauls Mill Acquires Interest in Mining My Own

Pauls Mill Acquires Interest in Mining My Own

Mining My Own, dam of Mine That Bird and Dullahan, has a new home at Ben and Elaine Walden's Pauls Mill following a recent acquisition that saw Pauls Mill purchase half interest in the 11-year-old Smart Strike mare.

 Thursday, November 01, 2012
Sept. Sale Forum: The Select Format's Future

Sept. Sale Forum: The Select Format's Future

Keep the select portion of the Keeneland September sale or do away with it? Read what auction participants had to say.

 Sunday, September 09, 2012
WinStar Acquires Pauls Mill Stallions

WinStar Acquires Pauls Mill Stallions

WinStar Farm has acquired an interest in all four stallions -- Bellamy Road, Summer Bird, Artie Schiller, and U S Ranger -- from Pauls Mill and will relocate them to their Versailles, Ky. farm for the 2012 breeding season.

 Friday, July 29, 2011

Hard Spun Colt Tops Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale

The average price grew 9.7% from a year ago and the median price increased 1.3% during the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales' breeze-up auction April 20 in England.

 Wednesday, April 20, 2011

New Central Kentucky Sales Agency Formed

Veteran horsemen Ben Walden, Mark Toothaker, and Jim Perrone have joined forces to form Pauls Mill Sales, a full-service sales consignment agency based in the Bluegrass.

 Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Market Roundup: Comments on January Sale

Market Roundup: Comments on January Sale

The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale enjoyed increases in the number of horses sold, gross, and average price during its five-day run in Lexington. Read what people had to say about the market.

 Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Pauls Mill Hires Morell as Director of Sales

Ben and Elaine Walden's Pauls Mill announced Nov. 3 that Patrick Morell has been named director of sales at the Versailles, Ky. farm. Sandy Sanborn will stay on in stallion and farm office administration.

 Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Glass Named Stallion Manager at Pauls Mill

Shane Glass has been named stallion manager at Pauls Mill. The Versailles, Ky., farm is owned by Ben Walden Jr. and his wife, Elaine, and is located near Versailles, Ky.

 Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Summer Bird to Stand at Pauls Mill

Summer Bird to Stand at Pauls Mill

Ben P. Walden, Jr., owner of Pauls Mill Farm, announced June 7 that Summer Bird will enter stud in 2011 at his farm near Versailles, Ky.

 Tuesday, June 08, 2010

U S Ranger to Shuttle to Australia

Group I placed U S Ranger, currently standing at Pauls Mill in Kentucky, will shuttle to Australia for the next three southern hemisphere breeding seasons.

 Friday, April 02, 2010

Major Sire Red Ransom Euthanized

Prominent international sire Red Ransom, who helped perpetuate the Roberto/Hail to Reason male line, was euthanized Nov. 14 because of complications following intestinal surgery.

 Sunday, November 15, 2009

Grade II Winner Teuflesberg to Journeyman

Grade II winner Teuflesberg, whose first foals arrived this year, will stand the 2010 season at Brent and Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla.

 Monday, August 24, 2009

Black Tie Affair Going to Old Friends

Black Tie Affair, 1991 Horse of the Year, has been pensioned at Randy Funkhouser's O'Sullivan Farms near Charles Town, W.Va.

 Sunday, July 12, 2009
Average Up and Median Steady at Saratoga

Average Up and Median Steady at Saratoga

Boosted by an impressive-looking son of Storm Cat, which fetched a final bid of $2 million, the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale ended its two-night run in New York Aug. 5 with an increase in average price. The median price held steady whle the gross revenue dipped slightly compared to last year's figures.

 Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Son of Storm Cat Brings $2 Million

Son of Storm Cat Brings $2 Million

An impressive looking son of Storm Cat fetched a final bid of $2 million from Michael Vincent Magnier of Coolmore Stud during the second session of the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale Aug. 5.

 Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Ben Walden Purchases New Farm

After surprisingly selling his Gracefield Farm near Lexington in May of this year, Ben Walden has purchased a new farm with plans of making it the last farm he buys.

 Monday, August 04, 2008

Waldens Sell Gracefield

Ben P. Walden Jr. and his wife, Elaine, prominent members of the Kentucky Thoroughbred industry, have sold their 310-acre farm near Lexington. The property, called Gracefield, was purchased by Robert and Lisa Lourie of Setauket, New York, for an undisclosed amount.

 Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Biancone Has New Venture

Biancone Has New Venture

Hurricane Hall selling training division to Patrick Biancone and Fabien Ouaki.

 Monday, January 28, 2008
Bernardini Sires First Foal

Bernardini Sires First Foal

The first reported foal by 3-year-old Eclipse champion and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Bernardini was born Jan. 4 at Gracefield Farm near Lexington. The newborn filly, bred by Gracefield and Partners, is out of the multiple stakes producer Belle Nuit.

 Saturday, January 05, 2008
Silver Wagon to Hurricane Hall

Silver Wagon to Hurricane Hall

Grade I winner Silver Wagon will enter stud for 2008 at Hurricane Hall near Lexington, it was announced Dec. 18.

 Tuesday, December 18, 2007
English Channel to Stand at Hurricane Hall

English Channel to Stand at Hurricane Hall

English Channel, who ran his way into a championship by way of his overwhelming score in the Oct. 27 John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT), has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Hurricane Hall near Lexington.

 Monday, October 29, 2007

In Time of Crisis, Sales are Secondary; Decision Supported

With Keeneland's decision to postpone the second day of the September yearling sale due to the apparent terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., many buyers and sellers were left in limbo. One thing was certain: horses and the sales were secondary.

 Tuesday, September 11, 2001