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Country Star Trying to Get to Big Dance

After being scratched at the gate of last Saturday's Gazelle Handicap, trainer Bobby Frankel is still trying to make Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (gr. I) with his 3-year-old Country Star.

Country Star Delivers on a Promise

PORTER ON PEDIGREES, by Alan Porter

If Empire Maker's career as a runner left his connections to speculate on what might have been trainer Bobby Frankel described him as the best he had trained, many lengths better than he was able to show his career as a stallion is rapidly beginning to shape as if to fulfill that unrealized potential through his offspring. One of his standouts is Country Star, who broker her maiden in the Darley Alcibiades Stakes (gr. I) on Oct. 5. Three weeks later, Country Star staked a claim to the juvenile filly championship with a track record-breaking win in the Hollywood Starlet Stakes (gr. I).

$3.1 Million Storm Cat Colt Lifts F-T Saratoga Sale

The lone Storm Cat colt in the Fasig-Tipton select yearling sale elicited a protracted bidding duel between a pair of racing titans Wednesday night which resulted in a final $3.1 million winning bid from bloodstock agent Demi O'Byrne. The sale-topping colt added to a session total of $16,890,000, which was good for an average of $324,808 and a median of $200,000. Sixteen horses were RNA'd, or 23.5% of the night's total.

First Foals for Grade I Winners Rings of Chime, Tranquility Lake

Grade I winner Rings a Chime produced her first foal, a Kingmambo filly, Feb. 9

First Foals for Grade I Winners Rings of Chime, Tranquility Lake

Grade I winner Rings a Chime produced her first foal, a Kingmambo filly, Feb. 9

First Foals for Grade I Winners Rings of Chime, Tranquility Lake

Grade I winner Rings a Chime produced her first foal, a Kingmambo filly, Feb. 9

First Foals for Grade I Winners Rings of Chime, Tranquility Lake

Grade I winner Rings a Chime produced her first foal, a Kingmambo filly, Feb. 9

Keeneland January Sale Starts Monday

Keeneland's January horses of all ages sale begins on Monday (Jan. 7) with 1,392 lots cataloged for the four-day auction. Sessions start at 10 a.m. (ET) daily.

GRADE I WINNERS KEEPER HILL, RINGS A CHIME RETIRED

Keeper Hill and Rings a Chime, both of whom were grade I winners in Kentucky, have been retired from racing after disappointing added-money efforts.