All Equine All The Time

Even with just four entries, the G1 Cotillion Stakes for three-year-old fillies on Saturday is more than it first appears. Two-Year-Old Champion Filly My Miss Aurelia is making her second start of the year, and first graded stakes start since her G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies victory. She comes into the race with an undefeated record and the hype that she may be the same filly that she was before an injury took her out for most of 2012.   The Stonestreet filly's status has been built up even farther by her three length victory in the August 8th Mandys Gold Stakes. In the gate next to her will stand Questing (GB), a two-time Grade One winner this year. Questing's last meeting with My Miss Aurelia went to My Miss Aurelia with Questing finishing fifth in the Juvenile Fillies.  Questing career wasn't much to write home about for the first six races of her career. The filly had placed in a few stakes in Europe, punching her ticket to the Breeders...

After months of preparation, it all comes down to one moment in the auction ring for horses and consigners at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. But first, the horses had to go through grueling days of showing to potential buyers before getting their time in the ring. The Keeneland catalog for Books 1 & 2. Thursday started the organized chaos as the first horses shipped in. Throughout the day, trailers waited at the Versailles Road stoplight in front of Keeneland and the stabling loading docks had hooves on them for the first time in months. The day also saw Blue Grass Airport bustling as owners and trainers from around the world landed in Lexington to see the 3,000-plus yearlings in the sale. Even though there were over 72 hours until the first horse stepped into the legendary auction ring in the Keeneland Sales Pavilion, Friday brought on the first busy day of the Fall Sale. Potential owners walked around in groups, talking in low voices whenever they looke...

Almost five months after Calumet was sold amid weeks of rumors , horses have returned to the pastures of the historic farm. Calumet's storied history has been full of up and downs over the last 30 years with the farm filing for bankruptcy in 1991. The farm was bought at auction by Henryk de Kwiatkowski the following year for $17 million with the promise that "The fences will be painted white as long as I live." De Kwiatkowski died in 2003 and the farm became part of the late owner's trust with his children as the beneficiaries. Like their father, the younger de Kwiatkowskis kept the fences painted white for nine more years, even bringing stallions back to the farm with Ice Box and Cactus Ridge standing at Calumet in 2012. But when it was rumored that Calumet had sold in mid-April on the Paulick Report, Lexington held its breath.  Calumet isn't just one of the many historic farms in the area, its the white-fenced farm that many people see whe...