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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati sired his first three reported foals in a matter of hours on the same morning, as two fillies and a colt were all born on Feb. 1...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Repriced, one of the last remaining sons of Roberto, died on Friday, January 27 at Darby Dan Farm of an apparent heart attack. He was 24...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Record-setting Group 1 winner All American sired his first reported foal from his North American crop on Jan. 30 when a filly was born at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Shoshana broke her maiden in fine fashion recently as the 3-year-old daughter of Sun King rolled home a 3 1/4-length winner at Gulfstream Park...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Veteran horseman Tommy Eastham has joined Darby Dan’s Division of Sales, effective immediately...
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Darby Dan Farm will utilize the Share The Upside concept for breeders in 2012 with new stallion American Lion, the farm announced Wednesday...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
American Lion, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Tiznow, has been retired and will stand stud at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY...
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Friday, November 18, 2011
This week, Robert Hammond took over duties as General Manager at Darby Dan Farm. The TDN caught up with the London native for a brief chat...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Darby Dan Farm announced 2012 fees for its current roster of stallions, headlined by multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati who will stand for $15,000 stands and nurses...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Robert Hammond has been hired as the General Manager of John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm and will assume duties immediately, the Lexington-based farm announced on Monday...
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Monday, November 07, 2011
Perfect Soul will stand the 2012 breeding season at the Hunderup family's Norse Ridge Farm near King City, Ontario...
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Monday, November 07, 2011
Darby Dan Farm capped an exceptional weekend for the program, selling the young mare Our Khrysty at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Sale on Sunday evening for $600,000…
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Friday, November 04, 2011
Perfect Shirl came up with her best race of the year to deliver a stirring come-from-behind victory for her owner/breeder Charles Fipke in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Top-20 first-crop sire Sun King got his seventh winner of the year on Oct. 22 with the filly Sunny Sights' maiden special weight victory...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Lenny Shulman and Steve Haskin talk to John Phillips of Darby Dan Farm about Winter Memories, who runs in The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (gr. I) at Keeneland October 15.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Sun King's sixth winner of 2011 came at Belmont Park on Oct. 10 when Saint Honore grabbed a nose victory going 1 1/16 miles on the main track...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
With seemingly no chance a sixteenth of a mile from the finish, Winter Memories made an electrifying move around a wall of horses to snatch victory in the final strides of the $250,000 Garden City S (G1)...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Guava Girl won a four-horse blanket blanket finish to break her maiden Sept. 11 at Arlington Park...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
First-crop sire Sun King's 2-year-old filly Sunset Queen rolled to a 6 1/4-length maiden score at Presque Isle Downs on Sept. 6...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Darby Dan's Magna Graduate had a pair of yearlings bring solid prices at auctions in Texas and Iowa during the final days of August...
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Monday, August 15, 2011
A yearling colt from Darby Dan’s consignment topped the second session of the Saratoga New York-bred Preferred Sale on August 14...
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Monday, August 08, 2011
Author: BloodHorse.com
Hip No. 152, a colt by Medaglia d'Oro – Lemon Kiss, by Lemon Drop Kid. Consigned by Darby Dan Farm, agent...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Darby Dan Farm began life in Kentucky in 1949. Following the death of E.R. Bradley in 1946, his Idle Hour Farm was sold, and John Galbreath, bought a portion of the property...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Winter Memories rolled to a 4 1/2-length victory in the $150,000 Lake George S. (G2) July 27 at Saratoga...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sun King's latest impressive winner from his first crop came on July 26, when Sun Country rolled to a nine-length win...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Magna Graduate's offering at the July 12 Fasig-Tipton yearling sale brought $40,000, eight times the stud fee of the Darby Dan stallion...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Awesome Bet, bred, raised and sold by Darby Dan Farm, roared home in the stretch to take the $100,000 Barbaro S. July 9...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Darby Dan's Perfect Soul accounted for three winners in two days over July 5-6, including two maiden special weight winners...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Click here to preview the Darby Dan Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Consignment
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Renowned pedigree analyst Sid Fernando strongly recommended the Sadler’s Wells line and Perfect Soul in particular, as bloodlines that are needed more in North America...
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Monday, June 06, 2011
Charles Fipke's homebred Check Your Soul stamped himself a likely favorite for the upcoming Queen's Plate...
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Darby Dan's stars of the Memorial Day card at Belmont were homebred Winter Memories and sales graduate Tizway...
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Charles E. Fipke’s homebred Impossible Time, raised at Darby Dan, was named Champion Older Female in Canada at the recently held Sovereign Award ceremonies...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Darby Dan managers and staff smiled a bit more broadly after the 136th Preakness S. (G1), as the dam of victorious Shackleford resides at the famed nursery off Old Frankfort Pike...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Charles Fipke’s Fastest Magician showed his sleight of hand, slipping through a narrow opening near the quarter pole, en route to victory in the 7-furlong A Gift Stakes at Belmont on May 22...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom shares a unique link with Darby Dan’s young Group-winning stallion Ambassador (Ger)...
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Much Rejoicing became the newest Darby Dan-produced stakes winner on May 13 with a daylight victory in the $60,000 Glia S. at Belmont Park...
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Check Your Soul could be on his way to becoming the second Canadian classic winner in the first three crops by Perfect Soul, after a dominating win...
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Sun King, a multimillionaire and four-time graded stakes winner, sired his first winner on May 22, when a 2-year-old colt named Legalis won at Premio Meltrasio racetrack in Milan, Italy...
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Perfect Soul's daughter Blessed Soul made short work of the field in the 1 1/16 mile feature at Pimlico April 22...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Darby Dan homebred Winter Memories looked sharp in her first race of 2011, putting in a solid stretch run to take the $100,000 Appalachian...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A Perfect Soul filly turned heads at the OBS 2-year-old sale on April 20, going for $125,000, the sixth highest price during the third session...
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Check Your Soul finished full of run to break his maiden on the grass at Keeneland on April 15...
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Friday, April 08, 2011
Deadlines will soon be upon us for the fall yearling sales. We are building our Darby Dan Farm consignment now.
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Friday, April 08, 2011
Led by six Grade/Group 1 winners including the Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up over the past 24 months, Darby Dan farm and sales graduates continue to excel at the highest levels in racing worldwide...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Lalo's Baby Bear made an impressive late move to score a one-length victory in Hawthorne's March 21 feature...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Darby Dan stallion Ambassador, a Group 2 winner in Germany, has had his first foal...
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Monday, March 07, 2011
All American, record-setting G1-winning miler and millionaire, had his first mare pronounced in foal from his debut season on Northern Hemisphere time...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
Charles Fipke homebred Perfect Shirl comes into the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) off a top effort in the Grade 2 Canadian S...
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Monday, February 28, 2011
The first mare covered from the debut book of multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati was pronounced in foal over the weekend...
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Demarcation put in a determined stretch run to win a thrilling running of the $125,000 Mineshaft...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Magna Graduate had the highest average sale price of all first-crop yearling sires at the OBS January sale...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Champion Perfect Soul (Ire) sired a Classic winner from his first crop and now a Championship contender in his second...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Mares in foal to Darby Dan’s Magna Graduate posted the highest in-foal average of all covering sires on Day 3 of the Keeneland January Sale...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
G1 winner and millionaire All American arrived at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington late Thursday, Dec. 23. for the 2011 breeding season...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The winners keep rolling in for Suave, with two more juveniles breaking their maidens on Dec. 15...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
As 2010 winds to a close, Suave continues to climb in the first-crop sire rankings...
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Friday, December 10, 2010
On Dec. 9 at Turfway Park, Golden Phoenix became the first three-time winner of the year for freshman sire Suave...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Owner-breeder Charles Fipke is the luckiest man in the world. As a professional geologist and entrepreneur, he literally finds mountains of gold and gems. And as a hobby, he breeds Grade 1 racehorses...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Zig-zagging through traffic inside, outside, and past a wall of horses, Darby Dan homebred Winter Memories was a game and creditable runner-up in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G2)...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
After a long wait, the official photo showed Jersey Town a winner by a nose of the prestigious Cigar Mile (G1)...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend was good to Darby Dan horses at both Aqueduct and Churchill Downs...
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Darby Dan Farm announced its 2011 roster and fees, featuring first-year, G1-winning stallions All American and Tale of Ekati...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Slick Vic handed freshman sire Suave his 12th winner with a comfortable 4 1/2-length maiden win...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
Suave added to his growing list of winners on Nov. 4 with Shoefly Shoefly...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
A pair of Darby Dan raised and sold colts turned in solid performances on Oct. 30...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
An Afleet Alex filly consigned by Darby Dan Farm, agent, was the highest-priced filly sold on Day Three of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearling Sale...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
TCI recently ranked Winter Memories' win in the Miss Grillo S. (G3) as the top
performance among all 65 "Win and You're in" races from this year's Breeders'
Cup Challenge...
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Darby Dan's freshman sire Suave notched a pair of new winners on Oct. 17-18, including a winner in Japan...
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Violon Sacre became the third Belmont Graded stakes winner of the past 15 days from Darby Dan Sales consignments, with his victory in the Kickerbocker S. (G3) on Oct. 17...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Darby Dan Farm and Sales graduate Eye of Taurus charged to a daylight victory in the 33rd running of the Athenia H. (G3) at Belmont...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Darby Dan program is making Grade 1 headlines this month, as undefeated 2-year-old Winter Memories preps for the Breeders’ Cup...
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Darby Dan's freshman sire Suave got his ninth first-crop winner on Oct. 9...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Darby Dan's freshman sire Suave got his latest winner Oct. 6 at Belmont Park...
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Monday, October 04, 2010
If Winter Memories' powerful win in the Miss Grillo (G3) is any indication, the Darby Dan bred, raised and owned 2-year-old filly is going to be a huge factor in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf...
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Monday, October 04, 2010
When Tizway ran away with the $250,000 Kelso H.-G2 at Belmont on Oct. 3, he just may have booked his ticket to Churchill Downs for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile...
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Suave Voir Faire became the sixth winner for first-crop sire Suave with a 3 3/4-length score in a straight maiden race at Turfway Park...
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Ya Gotta Have Soul pulled away in the stretch to dominate a seven-furlong allowance race at Belmont Park on Oct. 2...
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Anarchy, a 2-year-old by Suave, made all the running to break his maiden Sept. 17...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
With the recent addition of G1-winning milers All American and Tale of Ekati to its 2011 stallion roster, Darby Dan Farm has appointed industry veteran Suzie Picou-Oldham to the position of Bloodstock Associate & Nomination Sales...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
B G Suavecito ran his record to two-for-two with an allowance victory Sept. 11 at Retama Park...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Eye of Taurus became the latest stakes-winning Darby Dan sales grad with a handy score in the $76,650 Revidere Stakes...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Champion Perfect Soul (Ire) sired the top-priced colt at the selected session of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society yearling sale on September 7th...
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
Darby Dan freshman sire All American added a new Group winner Sept. 4 when his talented half-sister More Strawberries broke her maiden in the $175,000 Tatt's Furious S. (G2)...
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Friday, September 03, 2010
First-time starter Potential Diva showed disdain for her field today, running off with a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at River Downs today...
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Undefeated two-year-old Tlaquepaque became the first black-type stakes winner for freshman sire Suave, with a stylish victory in the $51,000 New Westminster S. at Hastings Park on August 26...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
All American, a Group 1-winning millionaire by Red Ransom, will ship to North America in 2011 and beyond to stand at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm in Lexington...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Charles Fipke’s Seeking the Title continued a very good 2010 season with a sharp second in the $200,000 Monmouth Oaks (G3) on Aug. 14...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Soul Custody, a 3-year-old daughter of Perfect Soul (IRE), got her second stakes placing of the year with a third-place finish in the $75,000 Washington Oaks
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Sunday, August 08, 2010
Darby Dan sale grads Demarcation and Cryptolight formed the exacta in the $125,000 West Virginia Governor’s S. Aug. 7 at Mountaineer Park...
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
Perfect Soul (Ire) sired his second Saratoga stakes performer in 11 days, when Perfect Shower ran a close second in the John’s Call Stakes at the Spa on Friday...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Perfect Shirl, a 3-year-old filly by Perfect Soul, made a perfect stakes debut in the $150,000 Lake George (G2)...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Darby Dan Sales graduate Lord Shanakill showed his grit and determination today, battling to victory in the Betfair Cup (Lennox S.)-G2 at Glorious Goodwood...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select auction ended its two-day run in Lexington on July 14, with the Darby Dan consignment featuring the top sale prices of the event by sires El Corredor and Mr. Sekiguchi...
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Led by two new stakes horses and three impressive winners on dirt, turf, and all-weather surfaces, Perfect Soul (Ire) had an excellent weekend across North America July 10 & 11...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Darby Dan Sales consignments produced two stakes winners on July 10, giving the sales program five stakes horses in the past eight days...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Darby Dan Sales graduates Qualia (G3), Eye of Taurus, and Cryptolight all hit the board in stakes company over the July 4th weekend...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Charles Fipke’s Seeking the Title ran as though she were seeking a championship title, with her sharp victory in the $200,000 Iowa Oaks (G3) on June 26...
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Friday, June 25, 2010
With three maiden special weight winners from his first four starters, Suave has smoothly moved up the ranks among the nation’s freshman sires...
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Freshman sire Suave got his third winner when the 2-year-old filly Golden Phoenix ran away for a 6 1/2-length victory in a maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs on June 24...
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Tlaquepaque became the second winner for his sire Suave with a victory in his debut on June 18...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Darby Dan Farm foaled and raised Lady Shakespeare continued her winning ways with a powerful victory in the $150,000 New York S. (G2) at Belmont Park...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Perfect Shower won the feature on the grass at Woodbine on June 19, the same course where he captured the $500,000 Breeders' S. last year...
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Perfect Shirl made short work of a full field of 14 maiden fillies to score an easy 2 1/2-length victory in a 1 1/8-mile turf race at Woodbine...
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Three yearlings from the first crop of Darby Dan sire Sun King are slated for the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale...
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Monday, June 07, 2010
One of the nation’s leading consignors of Graded stakes winners from yearling sales, Darby Dan has released its 2010 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Selected consignment...
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
Ima Soul Miss exploded in the lane to win by a Woodbine allowance race by eight lengths over the main track on June 5...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
B G Suavecito became the first winner for freshman sire Suave with his impressive debut victory in a $20,500 maiden special weight on May 28 at Lone Star Park...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Another big weekend for Darby Dan, as the farm had their hand in winners at Delaware Park, Monmouth, and Woodbine, as well as another stakes horse at Churchill Downs...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Through May 20th, Darby Dan Sales ranks among the leading consignors in North America to sell racing’s highest level of performers in 2010...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
The reward for hard work on the farm is success at the racetrack, and May 15 - Preakness Day - turned out to be a day full of rewards for Darby Dan Farm...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Taqarub was all class as he tallied his first graded stakes win in the $100,000 Maryland Sprint H. (G3)...
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Lalo's Baby Bear, a 4-year-old by Perfect Soul (IRE), won his 2010 bow with a four length victory in the feature at Arlington Park on May 13...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Feeling Fancy, consigned by Darby Dan Farm at the 2008 Keeneland September yearling sale, became the latest stakes winner sold at auction by the historic farm...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
It's been an unforgettable couple of weeks for C. Peter "Buzz" Beler and his Darby Dan based mare Ne Plus Ultra...
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Sunday, May 02, 2010
Port Stanley, a 4-year-old son of Perfect Soul (IRE), made it two wins in a row with a victory over the Woodbine all-weather surface on May 2...
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Ya Gotta Have Soul's win in a maiden special weight race at Keeneland on Apr. 23 was a victory for Darby Dan in many respects...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Lady Shakespeare's victory in the $150,000 Grey Goose Bewitch S. (G3T) on Apr. 22 was especially sweet for Darby Dan Farm, where the 4-year-old filly was foaled and raised...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Funny Moon made her 4-year-old debut with a solid runner-up finish in the $100,000 Doubledogdare S. at Keeneland on Apr. 16...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
With 2010 a little more than a quarter over, Darby Dan Farm is currently ranked as the fifth-leading consignor of Graded Stakes winners in the U.S...
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Six-year-old Cryptolight continues to shine in a racing career that is now into its fifth year...
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Monday, April 12, 2010
The Darby Dan-bred Aliyah got her first victory in her second career start, taking a six furlong maiden special weight race at Oaklawn Park on Apr. 10...
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Congratulations to the grand prize winner of the Darby Dan Crossword Puzzle Series. This years winner was: Jim Percival (White Cat Farm)- Breeder in Kansas
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Bearpath, consigned and sold by Darby Dan, won the 1 1/2-mile, $150,000 Pan American S. (G3) over the Gulfstream Park lawn on Mar. 27 for his first stakes victory...
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Keeneland is known for having some of the toughest races in the country, and the second race on Apr. 2 was no exception...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Charles Fipke’s homebred Seeking the Title rallies strongly to run third, less than ¾ of a length behind the winner, in the $300,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2)...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Island Soul will try to stamp his ticket to Louisville on Mar. 27, when the son of Perfect Soul takes on a full field in the $750,000 Louisiana Derby (G2) at Fair Grounds...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Darby Dan stallion Suave, whose first crop are 2-year-olds of 2010, was represented by his first juvenile at auction in 2010 when a colt brought $70,000 at the Barretts March selected sale...
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Magna Graduate, a seven-time graded stakes winner and multi-millionaire, sired his first reported foal in Kentucky when a bay filly was born Feb. 5 at Rockwell Farm in Lexington...
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Undefeated Grade 2-winning juvenile Run Away and Hide sired his first foal on Jan. 24 when a filly was born at Chesapeake Farm in Lexington...
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Champion Perfect Soul (Ire) has enjoyed immense success from his first two crops to race, including some stunning accomplishments at Canada’s finest racetrack – Woodbine...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Reports are beginning to come in on Suave's first crop of 2-year-olds and they are fantastic! Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor with a gorgeous individual being offered by Parting Glass Racing...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati, who enters stud at Darby Dan in 2010, showed that he was one of the world’s top milers in 2008 with wins in the Jerome H. (G2) and Cigar Mile H. (G1)...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
In 2009, many breeders took advantage of our incentives. Thanks in large part to their support, 2009 was an overwhelming success...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Darby Dan prides itself on having a finger on the pulse of the market. We understand the current economic conditions facing all breeders. Therefore, we have decided to bring back the Profit Protection Program...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Author: Courtesy TDN
It’s funny how things can work out in the horse business. For several years, diamond mine magnate Charles Fipke kept busy at the bloodstock sales, buying blue-blooded mares for his Grade 1-winning stallion prospect Perfect Soul (Ire)...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Furthest Land scored the biggest victory of his career on Nov. 7th when the son of Smart Strike prevailed in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) on racing’s biggest day at Santa Anita Park...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Darby Dan Farm has launched a free Breeders’ Cup Challenge that is a fun and rewarding contest for all racing enthusiasts. All you have to do is sign up and then select your horses. It only takes minutes...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Eye of Taurus, a Darby Dan Farm sales graduate, became a graded stakes winner in her stakes debut on Oct. 23rd, digging in to determinedly win the $125,000 Valley View S. (G3) at Keeneland Race Course...
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Sales consignments for the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Selected November Mixed and the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale available here.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Champion Perfect Soul sired another flashy 2-year-old winner from his second crop on Oct. 29th when his daughter Fire Into Ice surged up the rail to take command in the stretch and win a $75,900 maiden special weight race at Woodbine...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Perfect Wedding, a 3-year-old filly by Perfect Soul, claimed her second straight win on Oct. 26th when she stretched out around two turns for the first time and won a $41,000 allowance race at the Meadowlands...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Perfect Loch, a 2-year-old colt by Perfect Soul, made a promising debut to the races on Oct. 24th at Woodbine, rallying from last in the 12-horse field to win a $75,900 maiden special weight race...
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Grade 1-winning millionaire Perfect Soul had two promising winners on Oct. 18th when his 2-year-old filly Groovintothebeat won at first asking at Fort Erie and his 3-year-old Woodman’s Soul streaked to a four-length win in a $78,000 maiden special weight heat at Woodbine...
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Soul of Nataka became the latest stakes winner for her sire Perfect Soul when she prevailed after a determined stretch run in the $151,000 Catotene S. on Oct. 4th at Woodbine...
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Perfect Soul had two more winners on Saturday, Sept. 19th when Perfect Wedding, a 3-year-old filly, won a maiden special weight race at Monmouth and Soul Kiss, a 2-year-old filly, broke her maiden at Golden Gate...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Multiple Grade I winner and millionaire Tale of Ekati will stand the 2010 breeding season at Darby Dan Farm for his owner and breeder Charles Fipke...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Perfect Soul added a pair of impressive maiden winners on Sept. 12th when 2-year-old first-time starter Perfect Crevasse and 3-year-old Soul of Nataka captured maiden special weight events...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Attending the Keeneland Sale? Be sure to stop by the farm Tuesday, Sept. 22nd between 3-7 p.m. to inspect the stallions and visit with a Darby dan representative to learn about our Regional Incentive Programs...
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Monday, September 07, 2009
Corey’s Coming, a 3-year-old filly from the first crop of Grade 1-winning millionaire Perfect Soul, overcame traffic trouble to rally and prove best in a $48,000 allowance race sprinting on the turf Sept. 7 at Saratoga...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
No Inflation, a 3-year-old son of Repriced, made his first stakes win a big one, streaking well clear of his rivals in the stretch to score an eye-catching 6 ¼-length victory in the $250,000 Kent S. (G3) on Sept. 5th at Delaware Park...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Perfect Soul picked up his fourth winner in five days when his 3-year-old daughter Chile Chico made good as the heavy favorite to win a Woodbine maiden race by a decisive five lengths on August 23rd...
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Perfect Soul has enjoyed three winners in three days, the latest being Music for the Soul, a 3-year-old filly from her sire's first crop that captured a maiden race at Prairie Meadows on August 21st...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Perfect Soul got his second winner in consecutive days when his debutante Soul Custody captured a maiden race by four decisive lengths at Emerald Downs on August 20th...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Grade 1 millionaire Perfect Soul picked up another winner - his 14th winner of the season - when his 3-year-old filly Sportley rallied gamely to get up at the wire against a full field of 11 at Woodbine Racecourse on August 19th...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Millionaire Suave will be represented by two colts and two fillies from his first crop at the annual OBS August Selected Yearlings Sale on August 24th in Ocala, Florida...
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Monday, August 03, 2009
Perfect Shower, a 3-year-old colt from the first crop of Perfect Soul, made his first stakes win a big one, capturing the $500,000 Breeders’ S. – the final leg of the Canadian Triple Crown – on August 2nd at Woodbine...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Darby Dan stallion Perfect Soul has enjoyed a strong July full of maiden winners in Canada and the United States, and his well-bred 3-year-old son King of Soul closed out the month as the latest impressive maiden winner...
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Three-year-old filly Funny Moon became the latest Grade 1 winner to come out of the sales program at Darby Dan when she captured the $300,000 CCA Oaks (G1) July 25th at Belmont...
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Perfect Soul enjoyed another impressive maiden victor on July 24th when his 3-year-old colt Carcillo stretched out to win a $75,029 maiden special weight race at 1 1/8 miles over the local Polytrack at Woodbine Racecourse...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling consignment is now available online with photos, including a knockout colt by the perennial leading Australian sire Encosta de Lago...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Suave was well represented by his first yearling from his debut crop to hit the market when Hip No. 8, a filly, was purchased for $85,000 by Team Valor on Day 1 of the Fasig-Tipton July Sale July 20 in Lexington...
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Perfect Soul had multiple winners the weekend of July 17-19 to go along with the emergence of stakes-placed juvenile Perfect Lou, who was third in Saturday’s $50,000 Minstrel S. – the first of three Breeders’ Cup prep stakes for 2-year-olds on the turf this summer at Louisiana Downs...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The only stallion standing in North America that is a millionaire, by a millionaire and out of a millionaire, Suave has his first yearlings debuting in 2009. Included are six selling July 20th at Fasig's Select Yearling Sale...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Darby Dan and Tracy Farmer would like to thank everyone for their overwhelming support of Sun King in 2009. He has booked full for the second year with 150 mares scheduled to visit him this year.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
All eyes were on a colt by Perfect Soul out of Copper Belle as it sold for $230,000 at the OBS 2 yr old sale. Consigned by Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables for Bob Baker and partners, the colt breezed 1/8 mile in :10. The colt was purchased by Jess Jackson's Stonestreet Stables.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Stolen Heart got up for third with a late run in the Mesa Handicap on Saturday for her first stakes placing. The highest priced Ecton Park weanling of 2005 came out of the Darby Dan consignment for breeder Charles Fipke.
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Saturday, March 07, 2009
Magna Graduate had his first mare confirmed in foal today at Darby Dan Farm. Restless Angel, owned by Mrs. Elisabeth Alexander, is a winning daughter of Fusaichi Pegasus out of the GII winning French deputy mare Latour.
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
I'm a Fighter became the first mare confirmed in foal to Run Away and Hide. I'm a Fighter has 8 foals of racing age, 8 winner, 4 of which have earned over $100,000. In total, her foals have earned nearly $725,000 in purses.
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Sun King's first foals are arriving and they are living up to their royal heritage. Across the board, breeders are reporting foals with good size, excellent substance, and strong bodies.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Attemped Humor earned his first graded placing in the GII San Luis Obispo Handicap. A $500,000 September yearling from the Darby Dan consignment, the son of Distorted Humor improves his record to 7-4-1-1 with $134,583 in earnings for trainer Todd Pletcher and owner James T. Scatuorchio.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Taqarub garnered yet another victory by coasting to an easy win the the Jimmy Winkfield Stakes. This makes the third victory for the 3 yr old son of Aldebaran in as many starts. Bred, born, raised and sold at Darby Dan, he is truly a farm graduate. He was a $300,000 purchase for Shadwell from Darby Dan's Saratoga Select consignment in 2007.
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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Taqarub posted his second victory in as many starts by wiring an Allowance field at Aqueduct. The 2 yr old son of Aldebaran has yet to be headed, after breaking his maiden last month. Taqarub is a Darby Dan sale graduate from 2007, selling for $300,000 to the connections of Shadwell.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Multiple graded stakes winner and undefeated juvenile Run Away and Hide has been retired and will stand the 2009 breeding season at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky. for a fee of $7,500...
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
Darby Dan Sales Grad Taqarub broke his maiden as first asking today. The 2 yr old son of Aldebaran was sold to Shadwell for $300,000 last summer at the Saratoga Select sale. Bred and raised at Darby Dan, Taqarub is the first foal out of Honor Bestowed, by Honor Grades, and is a 1/2 sister to Champion Turf Mare Soaring Softly and GI winner Plenty of Grace.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Magna Graduate gained command near midstretch in a 2 1/4-length victory in the $108,200 Ack Ack Handicap (G3) on Sunday at Churchill Downs...
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Elisabeth Alexander will stand her multiple graded stakes winner Magna Graduate at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington...
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Classy Gem overcame an unsteady start, seized the lead entering the lane, and drew off to a comfortable victory on Saturday to become the first winner for Canadian champion and freshman sire Perfect Soul (Ire).
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Mr. Fipke, owner of Perfect Soul and GI Wood winner Tale of Ekati, had another outstanding weekend when Not Bourbon held off a late charge to win the prestigious Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Another amazing Suave foal - pictured above is a filly out of the graded stakes producing mare Sedona Berry, owned by Ronald and Kay Grothaus. Machmer Hall and Haymarket Farm co-own the...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Darby Dan and owner Tracy Farmer would like to thank all of the breeders who helped to make Sun King's first year a great success! He is booked full for 2008 and we look forward to his first crop of foals next spring.
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