Havre de Grace retired, and up for sale
Owner Rick Porter of the Fox Hill Farms have announced that the 2011 Horse of the Year 5-year-old mare, Havre de Grace is up for sale, and according to Porter, selling the Saint Liam mare has been a part of long range established Fox Hill business plan.
On a telephone interview on the afternoon of 23 April, Rick Porter, said that the mare is on the market and that he is to entertain private offers, but did not reveal what he was looking for in terms of price for Havre de Grace.
Larry Jones trained Havre de Grace is a Kentucky bred and out of mare Easter Bunnette by Carson City, and she turned in her last work on 22 April, 2012, where she turned in five furlongs in 1 minute and 2/5 seconds at Churchill Downs.
Rick Porter on 23 April, 2012, before saying that Havre de Grace is on sale, had declared that the mare is retired after it was revealed that she has an injured ligament in her right foot ankle, after being examined by Dr. Larry Bramlage at Rood & Riddle
Equine Hospital in Lexington.
Porter said in his interview that he has a price in mind, and he is willing to let her go through a private deal before she goes through a sale. If a deal can’t be struck privately, than Porter will have her go through the sale ring at either this year’s
Keeneland November breeding stock sale or the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select auction.
“There are three or four parts to my plan,” Porter said. “One is that I spend about the same amount of money every year on yearlings and 2-year-olds in training. Then I split them among a few trainers. At the end of their careers, if I’m fortunate enough
to get one that has significant residual value as a stallion or a broodmare, I sell it as a way of recovering the capital I spend every year at the sales.”
“I’m not really in the breeding business. I have a couple of broodmares that happened to be special to me so I kept them. “
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