Pin Oak Stud to offer remaining broodmares, weanlings and racehorses next month

Pin Oak Stud, one of the United States' most successful breeding and racing operations over the past six decades, will be offering its remaining broodmares, weanlings, and some racing fillies at Fasig-Tipton on September 12.

A further 14 yearlings will be sold at the Keeneland September Sale, while another yearling is entered to sell at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Sale. Around 14 retired mares and horses will remain on the farm.

Farm manager Clifford Barry said: "This has been part of Ms [Josephine] Abercrombie’s plan all along, as we have been selling mares and downsizing the past few years. Actually, in keeping to her plan, we have sold more yearlings than we kept in training the past couple of years."

Among the 24 horses being offered next month by the Kentucky stud are multiple Graded stakes winners Overheard, winner of the Pin Oak Valley View and Dance Smartly Stakes, in foal to McKinzie; Gold Medal Dancer, in foal to top sire Munnings; and Don't Leave Me, the winner of the Bourbonette and Ontario Colleen Stakes who has been covered by Authentic.

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Craig Bandoroff, whose Denali Stud will be handling the sale, said: "We have been fortunate to represent Pin Oak Stud for over 15 years. I’ve always considered it a compliment to have the Denali Stud name associated with Pin Oak and Josephine Abercrombie.”

He continued: "Their pursuit of excellence, their integrity and their highest level of horsemanship has made representing them an honour, not a job. Although I’m saddened to see this day come, I’m proud that we have been asked to represent a woman and a farm that I admire and revere.

"We will do our best to represent not just an accomplished horsewoman and her legacy but an incredible person who has positively impacted many lives through her various endeavours.”

Fasig-Tipton's president Boyd Browning added: “The names Josephine Abercrombie and Pin Oak Stud are synonymous with excellence and quality.

"Ms Abercrombie is a pillar of the thoroughbred industry and our local community. Her legacy will carry forward through the lives of the many people she impacted and these thoroughbred families she cultivated and developed."

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