Where is Dr. Jack Kevorkian when you need him?
    First it was the very sad news that Bill "Doo Rag" Greely was leaving Keeneland.
    Now comes word that  Ben Walden, Jr. is leaving Vinery.
    If this keeps up Injun Chuck is gonna be on a 5-Prozac-a-day diet.
    These are both serious setbacks and Keeneland and Vinery are gonna suffer from the loss of these two pioneers in the thoroughbred industry.

    I'll bet that if Billy Reed, of the Lexington Herald Misleader knew how much free food there was floatin' around at this sale, he'd be out here writin' stories every day.
    This years food has been exceptional with Mill Ridge Farm and Ms. Alice Chandler's famous rum cake leading the way.
    Alphabet Jones' Walmac International is always catered by Furlongs and a great spot to get a free meal during the sale.
    One down note is the Vinery, whose line of credit with the local Papa Johns Pizza Parlor has been revoked.
    So Ben Walden, Jr. went out and bought 300 frozen pizzas to get them through the sale.  Vinery puts them in a portable microwave oven and then serves them to prospective buyers, but they just ain't as good as the Papa Johns pizzas were.

    Moments after Sheikh Mohammed had won a fierce bidding war with Coolmore for Hip #503 (the Kris S. colt that sold for $3.9 million) Harley "Tow Truck" Clemmons called a news conference at Gainsborough Farm.
    Harley Clemmons announced that Sheikh Mohammed plans to pin-hook the colt in next year's Fasig-Tipton Calder 2-year-old in-Training Sale.
    Mr. Clemmons reports that the colt will be sent to Dubai to begin preparation for next year's Two-year-old in-Training Sale.  If he can go one furlong in 10 4/5 or 11 flat in Dubai, he will be able to work in 9 seconds flat at Calder for an eighth of a mile.
    If Hip #503 goes to Calder next winter and works in under 10 seconds, one of those big money guys like Buzz Chase will pay 20 or 30 million dollars for him.
    Then, if the Kris S. colt goes on to be an exceptional two-year-old, Sheikh Mohammed will buy the colt back and start pointing him for the 3-year-old classics.

    Lets face it, when you are buying and racing thoroughbred
racehorses you are gonna have enough problems.  Don't let insurance be one of them.

  The best way to avoid that is to let ol'Syl Kiger handle all your equine insurance needs.
    Syl Kiger has been around since Seabiscuit was a weanling and he knows the insurance business and how important it is to you.
    Don't' mess with those other jake-leg, part-time owners who want to sell you insurance.
    Get Syl Kiger and rest assured that your equine insurance needs will be in order.
    Kiger Insurance (606) 225-5050/Fax: (606) 225-5230

    Brian McCarty and every one at Malone's are very proud of the fact that they have become the #1 place for steaks in Lexington and all of Central Kentucky.
    The local racing community has really taken to Malone's because every time Injun Chuck goes in the joint we see nothin' but owners, breeders, trainers and one extra large Sallee Van executive named, Don "Moon" Gamble.
    To get to Malone's just take New Circle Road to Tates Creek and you will be two furlongs from the Lansdowne Shops where Malone's is located.  With so many people in town for the Keeneland Sale, parties of five or more should definitely call ahead for reservations (606) 396-7500.

    Hip #1684 is a Mountain Cat filly and is as good-lookin' as anything you are gonna see all day long.  She just looks like a racehorse.
    Hip #1810 is a big strong chestnut colt by Southern Halo, out of the same female family that produced horses like High Tribute, May Day Eighty and Roza Robata just to name a few.  Hip #1810 has all the tools necessary to be top-of-the-line racin' critter.
    Both of these yearlings are coming off some of the best farmland in these here parts--Two Bucks Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.
    Both Hip #1684 and Hip #1810 sell as part the Brookdale Farm Consignment selling Friday.
    Come on up the hill to Barn 45 and check'em out.

    For 30 years now Ms. Wilhelmina's, Fenwick Farm, has been breaking and developing young horses for some of the best people in the business.
    If Frank Whiteley, H. Allen Jerkens and Mike "Dirt" Bell approve of the way Fenwick Farm sends them young horses then that's good enough for Injun Chuck.
    Fenwick Farm is in Camden, South Carolina on 350 acres, with a great training track (and gate) and miles and miles of turf gallops.
    Fenwick Farm is a state-of-the-art facility run by horsemen and women who know the value of good common sense.  Let Fenwick Farm work their magic for you.
Just call Wilhelmina at:  (803)370-0321.

    On Friday, Tom Hinkle sells a bay filly by Roy, out of a stakes-winning Apalachee mare whose ¾-brother, Pioneer Spirit, by Quiet American, won an allowance race at Monmouth Park in 1:08 3/5 AND won a stakes race at Monmouth Park since the catalog.
    This is a good-lookin' filly and could turn out to be a real bargain, so don't overlook her.
    Stop by Barn 7 and let Tom Hinkle or his people show you this filly.  If you look at her, you will like her.

    J.T.L. Jones, Jr. is almost always loaded in September, but he is especially live today with his Thursday consignment.
    Alphabet Jones' Walmac International sells yearlings today by top sires such as Southern Halo, Nurevey, West By West, Afternoon Delites, Salt Lake, Red Ransom, Honour And Glory and Hip #1400, a colt from the last crop of Lord At War (ARG).
    If you haven't checked out the yearlings selling in today's Walmac International consignment, well, lets just say that the money you lose, may be your own.

    It ain't gonna be long before the first-crop of Ide (Forty Niner-Maytide) will be showing up at Keeneland in September.
    There ain't no way Ide is not gonna throw top class runners.
    The Forty Niner influence in new stallions has been nothing short of sensational in recent years.
  And let's not forget that Ide was a very good racehorse.
  As a 2-year-old Ide was weighted at 121 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap.
  Ide won 7 consecutive races and 5 were stakes races, 4 of those were graded stakes races.
  Ide won the Fort Springs Stakes and 4 graded stakes: the Iroquois, the Rebel, the Southwest, and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes.
  Ide ran the fastest 8 ½ furlongs ever by a 2-year-old at Churchill Downs.
  This here is Injun Chuck talkin' to ya.  If Ide was you, Ide be keepin' my eye out for the Ide yearlings, coming up at Keeneland in September.

    Expelled, a full-brother to deceased stallion sensation, Exbourne, will stand stud in 2000 at Wimbledon Farm for $6,500 live foal.
    Expelled (Explodent-Social Lesson, by Forum) won the Group 3 Prix du Bois Stakes as a 2-year-old in France and ran a very game 2^nd in the Group Two, Prix Robert Papin Stakes after losing a shoe in the race.
    Expelled was later sent to Hall of Fame trainer, Bobby Frankel and won the Grade One, Eddie Read Handicap in his North American debut.
    Here's a chance to breed to a FULL BROTHER to Exbourne and a Graded and Group Stakes winner on two continents.
    For further information or to book your mare to Expelled, contact George Hoskins or Brian O'Rourke at Wimbledon Farm: (606) 272-0636/fax (606) 271-1435.

    The first crop of Vinery stallion, Prospect Bay are startin' to show up in the sales ring.
    Prospect Bay (by Crafty Prospector, out of a Danzig mare) ran the fastest Beyer speed figure posted in 1996.  Prospect Bay ran a 123 Beyer in the A Phenomenon Stakes, running six furlongs in 1:08 1/5 (one tick off track record) and defeated Met Mile winner, Honour and Glory. 
    Raise A Native, In Reality, Northern Dancer and Buckpasser.
    Prospect Bay had the talent and has the blood to be a very productive sire.
    Checkout the yearlings from the 1st crop of Prospect Bay selling in Vinery's Friday Consignment -Barn 9.