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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 […]

Keeneland will supplement four horses to Book 1 of the September Yearling Sale, which begins Monday, Sept. 11, the organization said in a release Thursday. Opening day of the sale will include Hip 190, a daughter of American Pharoah out of the Galileo (IRE) mare Pushkinskaya (IRE), a full sister to European champion 2-year-old filly Maybe(IRE). Consigned by Highgate Sales, […]

It was a first Thoroughbred Daily News ‘Rising Star’ on Saturday for Highgate when Heartland overcame trouble in his debut to win by two lengths at Del Mar. Heartland had registered a bullet two works before this start and went off as a heavy favorite in the race. Finding some trouble coming out of the […]

Courtesy of Blood-Horse. While the July Sale is filled with sparkling pedigrees there are always a handful that jump off the page for being especially resplendent.  [The Highgate-offered] Improbable colt is out of She’s Not Here, a two-time winner of Del Mar’s Yellow Ribbon Handicap (G2T). And while we don’t make a habit of highlighting third […]

It was a second straight post-sale victory for Hot Little Thing on Wednesday when the Highgate graduate won the Checkered Flag Handicap to become the first post-sale stakes winner for Highgate. Hot Little Thing was coming into this race after winning an Allowance by three lengths in her first start after selling with the consignment […]

A successful runner since selling from Highgate’s Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale for $100,000 last year, Midnight Rising went one step farther on Saturday with a third-place finish in the Marine Stakes (G3). Racing for Surfside Stables, he became the first Highgate graduate to earn blacktype after being sold by as part of […]

Highgate heads to its third sale of the year on Sunday with a strong draft of 14 racehorses offered at the Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale. That group kicks off with the first hip of the night when an unraced daughter of Quality Road goes through the ring as Hip 1. A […]

Courtesy of Thoroughbred Daily News By Jessica Martini LEXINGTON, KY – With just weeks to the opening of the 2023 breeding season, the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale begins its two-day run Monday at Newtown Paddocks with an eclectic offering of broodmares, broodmare and racing prospects and short yearlings. The auction attracted 465 entries to its […]

Next week, Highgate Sales returns to where it all began when we offer 10 horses at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale on February 6 and 7 a year after making our consignment debut at the same sale. It was at that sale that Highgate Sales registered our first sales topper when Grade 1-placed Brilliant […]

By Keeneland Media ‍ Mick Wallace, agent for Ghandarvi, paid $1 million for a 2-year-old colt by Into Mischief who is from the family of multiple Grade 2 winner and successful sire Munnings during today’s Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale, a single-session auction for racehorses that followed the 10-day November Breeding Stock Sale. […]