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Barretts January Mixed Sale 2018 Wednesday, January 17th at 11:00 a.m. (PDT) Pomona, CA Harris Farms, Agent 3…….WINNING TALE, 2007 dk.b./br.m., Tale of the Cat – Mining Missharriet {Tizbud} 19……2017 b.c., Vronsky – Belloma 20……BRILLIANT RESPONSE, 2005 b.m., High Brite – Beyond a Doubt {Lakerville} 43……HAIMISH HY, 2007 dk.b./br.h., Ecton Park – Tifonica (ARG) 47……2017 […]

by DMTC.com Masterfully-ridden by jockey Corey Nakatani, longshot How Unusual spurted between horses at the top of the stretch to enter contention and outfinished 2-1 favored Responsibleforlove in the final sixteenth to win the featured Grade III $100,000 Red Carpet Handicap on Thanksgiving holiday Thursday at Del Mar. How Unusual, a daughter of Unusual Heat, […]

By Jay Privman DEL MAR, Calif. – From the time Richard Mandella took over as the trainer of Majestic Heat, he had given thought to running her on dirt, based on the way she trained on the surface, but because she was doing so well on turf, he left well enough alone. But after Majestic […]

April 7, 2017 Transylvania (G3) Presented by Keeneland Select – Big Score

By Tracy Gantz Stormy Hull once hoped he would one day sell a horse for $50,000. At the Oct. 17 Barretts October fall mixed sale in Pomona, Calif., Hull topped the sale with a $220,000 yearling filly he hauled to Southern California from Washington state himself. “It’s beyond my dreams—it’s surreal,” Hull said. The filly, […]

Barretts 2017 Fall Sale of Yearlings and Horses of All Ages Tuesday, October 17th, at 11:00 a.m. Pomona, CA Harris Farms, Agent 1…….QUIZ KID, 2016 dk.b./br.c., Acclamation – Quizzical 71……2016 b.f., Acclamation – Askra 132…..2016 b.c., Vronsky – Exclusive Game Photo Here 165…..2016 dk.b./br.f., Papa Clem – Kind Lady 176…..2016 ch.f., Lucky Pulpit – Little […]

By Steve Andersen Cypress, CA (September 9, 2017)-Soi Phet beat a field of runners who were mostly half his age in Saturday’s $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes for California-bred milers at Los Alamitos. Winning a stakes at the Orange County track has become an annual occurrence in recent years for the 9-year-old Soi Phet. The Johnston […]

By DMTC.com Del Mar, CA (August 30, 2017)-Dare to Dream Stable’s Spiced Perfection, unraced since breaking her maiden on opening day, July 19, of Del Mar’s summer season, wore down odds-on favored Show It N Moe It in the upper stretch and then held off the challenge of Family Girl to score an upset victory […]

From Bloodhorse.com Auburn WA (August 23, 2017)-A colt by Smiling Tiger was sold for $67,000 to top the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association’s summer yearling and mixed sale Aug. 22 in Auburn, Wash. The sale topper, consigned as Hip 92 by Halvorson Bloodstock Services, was bought by John and Janene Maryanski. Bred in Washington […]

PLEASANTON, Calif. (Aug. 15, 2017) – A filly by leading California first-crop stallion Smiling Tiger brought a sale-topping $70,000 and a Lucky Pulpit colt from the same family sold for $50,000 at Tuesday’s 2017 Northern California Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. The high-bid yearling hip 47 a bay […]

FLASH—Barretts August Yearling Sale a full sibling is being offered Harris Farms, Agent for M. Auerbach, LLC 40……dk.b./br.c., Unusual Heat – Chi Chi Nette by DMTC.com Del Mar, CA (August 11, 2017)-For the second straight year, Majestic Heat and jockey Flavien Prat won the $100,000 Solana Beach Stakes, and for the second straight year they […]

AURORA, CO (August 5, 2017)-Freshman sire Smiling Tiger picked up his fourth winner when Grinning Tiger crushed the Arapahoe Park maiden special field by seven lengths in his second out. Bred by Patrick Cosgrove in Oregon the gelding is out of Karlee’s Kitten, by Pioneering and has earned $7,760.