This November, ELiTE Sales will bring our deepest and most diverse draft to date.  Selling in Book 2 on Friday, November 8th, ELiTE will feature 11 racing/broodmare prospects in addition to 2 broodmares in-foal to TAPIT and CANDY RIDE. The entire group of 13 fillies and mares all are Stakes/Graded Stakes performers so, if BLACK […]

MIDNIGHT BISOU, the top-rated older female in North America, will be offered by ELiTE Sales at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale’s ‘Night of the Stars’ on November 4th. Campaigned by Bloom Racing, Madaket Stables, and Allen Racing, Midnight Bisou is a five-time Grade 1 winner and an 11-time Graded Stakes winner from seven furlongs to 1-1/8 […]

In an absolutely epic throwdown between two top-class racehorses, MIDNIGHT BISOU and ELATE gave us the race of the summer in the G1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga. “It was unbelievably exciting,” said Midnight Bisou’s trainer Steve Asmussen. “They both came into the stretch with a lot of horse. You could tell how confident Jose [on […]

On one of the final weekends of the prestigious summers meets across the country, two recent ELiTE Grads picked up their first Stakes wins for their new connections. HOMELAND SECURITY, a multiple Stakes winning, 5yo daughter of Smart Strike who sold for $460,000 at KEENOV18, lived up to her odds as the heavy favorite in […]

ELiTE graduates SUPERCOMMITTEE and STRIKE AT DAWN will both start in the first Friday card of the meet at Del Mar. SUPERCOMMITTEE, acquired by Meah/Lloyd Bloodstock for $120,000 at Keeneland April, has already won a stake race since her purchase and will now look to add to her resume in the Osunitas Stakes. The 1 […]

An $80,000 purchase from ELiTE’s inaugural consignment at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Horses of Racing Age Sale, SIEM RIEP picked up his first Stakes win for owner Marc Detampel and trainer Ben Colebrook. The hard-knocking, 5yo son of Tapit was purchased by Detampel fresh off of his maiden-breaking win and has since picked up 5 wins, […]

Originally published by BloodHorse.com on May 4th, 2019.  Mia Mischief got the jump on grade 1 winner Marley’s Freedom in the $500,000 Humana Distaff Stakes (G1) May 4 at Churchill Downs and pulled off an 11-1 upset in the first stakes race on the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) undercard. Flashing early speed for the first time since her […]

Originally published by the BloodHorse.com. Midnight Bisou is the kind of runner that forces her competition to elevate their game. A multimillionaire who has hit the board in all 14 of her starts, the 4-year-old daughter of Midnight Lute has proven to be a formidable filly who gives it her all every time she leaves […]

River Bend Farm manager Larry Weeden arrived at the Keeneland April Horses of Racing Age Sale April 9 with a specific purpose in mind: Bring home the 3-year-old filly Sweet Diane. Standing in the back of the Lexington pavilion signing the $500,000 ticket on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Weeden was all smiles, having completed his […]

Sale Date: November 5-16, 2019