Archive for September 2023

A big few months for Highgate Sales graduates continued over the weekend when Everso Mischievous won the Harrods Creek Stakes by an easy 3 ¼ lengths at Churchill Downs. Pressuring the leading Bouncer for the first half of the seven-furlong race, he made sure that one kept the pace honest throughout the backstretch run. Issuing […]

Sold by Highgate Sales at last year’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale to Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables for $650,000, Agate Road made a big impression when breaking his maiden at Saratoga in early September. That performance earned him Thoroughbred Daily News Rising Star status, but his connections are convinced the best is still to […]

Highgate Sales’ own Jacob West sat down with Blood-Horse during Book 1 of this year’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale to talk about the creation of Highgate Sales and how it felt selling our first seven-figure horse at last year’s September Sale. He also talks about his position as a bloodstock agent, background in the Thoroughbred […]

It was a second Thoroughbred Daily News ‘Rising Star’ hailing from Highgate’s 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale consignment on Saturday when the China Horse Club-bred Agate Road impressively won a Saratoga Maiden Special Weight. Racing over 1 1/16 miles on the turf for his second career start, Agate Road broke from the widest position of […]

Already graded stakes placed after selling with Highgate Sales last November, Harlan Estate improved that performance on Thursday with a 1 ¾ length victory in the Listed Tapit Stakes at Kentucky Downs. Tucking in near the back of the pack early in the one-mile turf race, he didn’t start moving up until the field entered […]