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Today, Tattersalls is the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year. It still prices horses in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence), in accordance with horse-racing tradition.
Runnymede Farm is an American horse breeding farm located outside Paris, Kentucky on U.S. Route 27, the Paris-Cynthiana Road.It is said to be the longest continuously running Thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky, 365-acre (1.48 km 2) established in 1867 by American Civil War Colonel Ezekiel Field Clay.
For Europe, the July 2007 Tattersall's Sale sold 593 horses at auction, with a total for the sale of 10,951,300 guineas, [4] for an average of 18,468 guineas. [5] Doncaster Bloodstock Sales, another British sales firm, in 2007 sold 2,248 horses for a total value of 43,033,881 guineas, making an average of 15,110 guineas per horse. [6]
Kenneth G. McPeek (born August 2, 1962) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and bloodstock agent. [2] McPeek gained prominence in 2024 by winning the 150th Kentucky Derby in a three-horse photo finish with the 18:1 underdog Mystik Dan [3] and the Kentucky Oaks with Thorpedo Anna.
Horses arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 along with the earliest colonists. [67] Although horses of part-Thoroughbred blood were imported into Australia during the late 18th century, it is thought that the first pureblood Thoroughbred was a stallion named Northumberland who was imported from England in 1802 as a coach horse sire ...
Goodnight Olive is by 2004 Horse of the Year Ghostzapper. She is the third foal out of the Smart Strike mare Salty Strike, who won the Grade II Dogwood Stakes in 2011 and the Grade III Gardenia Stakes in 2012 along with numerous other listed and black-type stakes races. [4] [5] Goodnight Olive is trained by Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown.
Coolmore Australia, located near Jerrys Plains in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, is a 3,340 ha farm that has approximately 1,000 horses, including 600 mares that produce about 300 foals there during the spring. [15]
In 1981, the stud farm was bought by Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum. [2] [3]The stud farm was operated by Maktoum's company, Gainsborough Stud Management, [4] which maintained Gainsborough Farm in central Kentucky [5] (bought in 1984) as well as two facilities in Ireland, Wood Park Stud in Co Meath (bought from the de Burgh family in April 1989) and Ballysheehan Stud.