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Record-Priced Into Mischief Filly Tops Final Day Of OBS June Sale
Hip No. 914, a daughter of Ghostzapper was sold to Donato Lanni, agent for Stetson Racing LLC, for $600,000. The bay filly, whose three eighths on Sunday in :32 3/5 was the sale's co-fastest at the distance......
Coolmore Dominates Top of Record-Setting Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale Marketplace
The Coolmore partnership repeatedly flexed its muscles, buying four of the day's six most expensive horses. Chief among them was a Curlin colt bought in tandem with bloodstock agent Donato Lanni on behalf of an unnamed client for $3.65 million, which made him the most...
Second seven-figure seller for Curlin tops Gulfstream Sale
An immaculately put-together colt by Curlin descending from one of the premier families in the studbook was hammered down for $3.65 million as the Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale neared its conclusion Wednesday afternoon. Donato Lanni and Jamie McCalmont reportedly signed...
Grade 1 Winner Mubtaahij Retired
Grade 1 winner Mubtaahij has been retired from racing and will likely head to South America for stud duty, according to bloodstock agent Donato Lanni. The 2017 Awesome Again Stakes (G1) win, Mubtaahij won or placed in 10 other grade/group events and earned more than...
Light Reading – By Evan Hammonds
“The guy bidding against me was a pretty tough guy to get past: Donato Lanni,” Mark Reid said of the agent who often buys for trainer Bob Baffert. At the 2015 Keeneland September sale, during the Sunday or sixth session, he ran across the eventual Pegasus winner......
Magic of the Millions
"I work with Bob Baffert, I talked to him this morning and I told him, you need to come down here and check it out!" - US based Bloodstock Agent Donato Lanni thoroughly enjoyed his first time attending the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Video: Galloping...
Fasig-Tipton October Lands on Solid Ground
A tall, big-striding son of Street Sense became the week's top seller when bloodstock agent Donato Lanni went to $500,000 to secure the colt for an undisclosed client…...
Keeneland November Sale Concludes With Increase In Average, Median Figures
“Our horses are competing with the rest of the world and winning,” Lanni continued. “We have a lot of speed in this country and people know that, keeps them coming back to Keeneland. It's been a very good market...”...
Tapit, War Front Shine at Keeneland September Opener
The first colt out of multiple graded stakes winner Iotapa started things off with a bang, dropping the hammer at $1.9 million. The colt, by War Front, was consigned by Taylor Made and purchased by Donato Lanni on behalf of an undisclosed client. "He's a lovely colt,...
Big-Race Drefong Named Champion Male Sprinter
“Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni and I work together,” trainer Bob Baffert said after the Breeders’ Cup. “We don’t do anything without each other’s OK. This horse was so beautiful. He was a perfect specimen…”...
Into Mischief Filly Tops Early at Midlantic Sale
Bidding on behalf of an undisclosed client, Donato Lanni went to $425,000 to acquire an Into Mischief filly to top the early portion of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale May 22…...
Vibrant Market in Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale Opener
Prominent horse owner Susan Chu is a big fan of American Pharoah and very much wanted a mare to breed to the Triple Crown winner who stands at Ashford Stud. So she asked Hill ‘n’ Dale’s Donato Lanni to scout the sales in search of a mare and with time running out,...