Pleasanton: Yearling sale’s average price jumps
Led by a colt who sold for $55,000, the Northern California yearling sale at Pleasanton, Calif., last Tuesday showed a 50 percent increase in average price from 2011.
Steve AndersenAug 17, 2012
Led by a colt who sold for $55,000, the Northern California yearling sale at Pleasanton, Calif., last Tuesday showed a 50 percent increase in average price from 2011.
The ability to race as a pacesetter, stalker, or closer is a big reason why Halo Dolly has won 11 of 20 career starts, and why she will be favored to defend her title in Sunday’s $100,000 Solana Beach Handicap at Del Mar.
Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags will enter stud at Lane’s End Farm next year, the Versailles, Ky., farm announced Thursday.
Colorspin, the 1986 Irish Oaks winner and dam of European champions Opera House and Kayf Tara, died Aug. 13 at age 29.
Mike Repole, Ken and Sarah Ramsey, Team Valor, and Zetcher Racing Stable are among owners and breeders that the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will honor Sept. 7 at its annual National Awards Dinner in Lexington, Ky.
Monarchos, the 2001 Kentucky Derby winner and sire of champion sprinter Informed Decision, returned home Saturday to Nuckols Farm in Midway, Ky.
Spurred by two $300,000-plus yearlings, the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred sale on Sunday night posted impressive gains in average and median even as sellers scaled back their expectations for the amount of money buyers would be willing to spend.
Despite robust gains in gross, median, and average, sellers of New York-bred yearlings appeared to have seriously misjudged the enthusiasm of buyers for many of their horses during the first session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale on Saturday night in Saratoga Springs.
The Jockey Club expects the North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop to hold steady at least through 2013, according to figures the registry released Saturday afternoon that project the 2013 registered crop at 24,700.
Alan Cohen seemed a little conflicted after his filly Wait No More, a Medaglia d’Oro daughter of Cohen’s champion Wait a While, topped Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale. Despite having sent her through the ring for $1,575,000, Cohen says he’s not sure he can part with many other foals, especially out of Wait a While.