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Super Shopper Starlight Has Basket of 3YOs

Super Shopper Starlight Has Basket of 3YOs

When Starlight Racing needs to replenish its stable of runners, its buying team heads to the yearling auctions. The venture's efforts at the sales are paying off handsomely this year with several promising 3-year-olds.

 Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Algorithms: Putting the Horse First Pays Off

Algorithms: Putting the Horse First Pays Off

Letting Algorithms get his way hurt his yearling price, but he's rewarded his breeder and the farm that raised him with his racing success.

 Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Winner's Circle - A Shot in the Arm

Winner's Circle - A Shot in the Arm

Valkyre Stud owner co-breeds, then sells filly by Bernardini for $1.2 million.

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 Tuesday, September 20, 2011
September Sale Surge Continues in 4th Session

September Sale Surge Continues in 4th Session

The Keeneland September yearling sale kept the momentum going during its fourth session, continuing to generate numbers that were encouraging to consignors and sale company officials.

 Wednesday, September 14, 2011
$625,000 Bernardini Colt at Keeneland Sale

$625,000 Bernardini Colt at Keeneland Sale

A Bernardini--Ava Knowsthecode colt consigned by Valkyre Stud as Hip No. 565 was bought by John Ferguson for $625,000 during the early portion of the Sept. 14 fourth session of the Keeneland September yearling sale.

 Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Business Booms in September's Third Session

Business Booms in September's Third Session

Not everybody was shopping for items in the wildly popular new Missoni collection at Target stores Sept. 13. In Lexington, many people were busy buying horses at Keeneland.

 Tuesday, September 13, 2011
$1.2 Million Filly Will Help Parke Pay Bills

$1.2 Million Filly Will Help Parke Pay Bills

Catherine Parke of Valkyre Stud wasn't thinking about an exotic vacation or buying a new car after selling a Bernardini filly for $1.2 million during the third session of the Keeneland September yearling auction.

 Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Leon Pays $1.2 Million for Bernardini Filly

Leon Pays $1.2 Million for Bernardini Filly

Benjamin Leon Jr.'s Besilu Stable went to $1.2 million to acquire a Bernardini filly (Hip No. 307, consigned by Valkyre Stud) produced from the Smart Strike mare Silk n' Sapphire at Keeneland's September yearling sale.

 Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Implementation of Kentucky Breeders' Incentive Program Discussed

What to do with an estimated $12 million in Kentucky Breeders' Incentives money was the topic of discussion during a May 18 meeting of Central Kentucky breeders at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's Newtown Paddocks near Lexington.

 Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Keeneland Sale: Speed from the Gate

Keeneland's September yearling sale broke out of the starting gate running hard. Nearly every key business figure sprinted ahead of last year's pace on Sept. 8 during the first of the auction's two select sessions.

 Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Full Sister to Grade I Winner Riskaverse Arrives

A full sister to grade I winner Riskaverse was foaled March 8 at Catherine Parke's Valkyre Stud

 Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Bursting Forth Has First Foal

Graded stakes winner Bursting Forth produced her first foal, a Woodman colt, on Jan. 29 at Catherine Parke's Valkyre Stud near Georgetown, Ky.

 Tuesday, January 30, 2001