With the Ben’s Cat celebration slated for Saturday, his owner-breeder-trainer King Leatherbury stopped to reflect on the gelding’s tremendous career.
The December Fasig-Tipton mixed sale in Timonium will include a strengthened horses of racing age supplement to meet strong demand from recent years.
Heel issues affected Page McKenney earlier this year, but trainer Mary Eppler got them fixed, and the recent results show two straight strong performances.
At yesterday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale, 19 horses, including two bred in the Mid-Atlantic, fetched winning bids over $1 million.
Bound to Windsor and William and Mary – both trained by James Casey – ran one-two in the faster division of the WV Futurity last night at Charles Town.
Gun Runner was Gun Runner and the result was a dazzling Breeders’ Cup Classic win; in other BC races, Midlantic-breds struggled.
Long layoffs seemed to catch up with Midlantic-breds Mor Spirit and Stellar Wind yesterday at the Breeders’ Cup, while locally-based Untamed Doman ran big.
Handle in the mid-Atlantic region fell in October versus the same month in 2016, though the daily average per track rose by 5 percent.
The number of horses changing hands via the claimbox this year is up slightly from 2016, led by Kieron Magee, with over $1 million in claims to date.
The Mid-Atlantic’s biggest Halloween upsets of the last 10 years, from Banana Pancakes (72-1) to Van Leroy (38-1).