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Pure Clan Sells for $4.5 Million at Keeneland

Pure Clan Sells for $4.5 Million at Keeneland

Goncalo Torrealba, who operates TNT Stud in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, went to $4.5 million to purchase the millionaire Pure Clan during the second session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in Lexington Nov. 7.

 Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Algorithms Commences Classic Calculation

Algorithms Commences Classic Calculation

MAHUBAH'S CORNER
In the Holy Bull, it was Starlight Racing's Algorithms, who captured his first stakes race and stamped himself as one to watch on the Triple Crown trail.

 Thursday, February 09, 2012
Bernardini Impresses as First-Crop Sire

Bernardini Impresses as First-Crop Sire

MAHUBAH'S CORNER, by Avalyn Hunter
With an excellent race record, a fine pedigree, and superb conformation, Bernardini looked as close to a sure thing as exists in the ranks of prospective stallions.

 Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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

Bernardini Emerges As Eclipse 3YO Male Champion

How good was Bernardini in 2006? Good enough to make The Blood-Horse cover six times.

 Monday, January 22, 2007

Bernardini Bounds Away in Travers

Very few thought any of his five rivals had much of a shot at beating Bernardini at equal weights in Saturday's 137th Travers (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course. But this appeared so effortless that jockey Javier Castellano was clapping the winner on the neck -- with a sixteenth of a mile to go!

 Saturday, August 26, 2006

Spectacular Bid: How Good a Stallion?

Although deceased Spectacular Bid closed out his career away from all the glamour he experienced early on in Central Kentucky, the four-time champion might have accomplished enough in some categories to be given a passing grade as a stallion.

 Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Luna Wells and Cara Rafaela Part of Online Auction

Equine Spectrum's online auction of 16 mares scheduled for March 15 includes such well-known names as grade I winners Luna Wells and Cara Rafaela.

 Friday, March 02, 2001