The reformatted January mixed sale at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company in Ocala, Fla., ended Wednesday evening after strong across-the-board gains at its open session. Private sales of horses who initially failed to reach their reserves also boosted results from the Tuesday sessions.
A $90,000 yearling Congrats colt led selling Wednesday afternoon at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed auction. Wednesday’s session was for open yearlings and was the last of two sale days.
Hard Spun’s 3-year-old daughter Lady Clara, third in the Jan. 7 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct, brought $240,000 from Hard Acre Farm as the session topper Tuesday at the OBS January mixed sale.
Richland Hills Farm stallion Purim, a Grade 1 winner by Dynaformer, was euthanized Saturday after undergoing colic surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, farm president Nathan Fox confirmed Monday.
Thirtyfirststreet spent almost as much time on the road in 2011 as he did racing in his home state of California. Of his nine races, four were outside the state, including a win in the Lone Star Derby in Texas last May.
Keeneland’s January horses of all ages sale started and ended with a bang as all four sessions rang up hefty gains, buybacks fell, and the number of horses selling for $200,000 or more more than doubled, from 16 last year to 37 in 2012.
Teruya Yoshida, the Shadai Farm owner whose brother recently bought $1.4 million Keeneland January sale-topper Topliner, has privately purchased two outstanding turf mares: Stacelita and Sarafina.
The four-day Keeneland January all-age auction closed with 1,003 horses bringing $37,991,900, a 50-percent increase over the 2011 sale's gross for 1,021 horses sold over five days. The 2012 cumulative average price billowed up by 53 percent, from $24,731 last year to $37,878, and the median performed even better, doubling its $7,500 figure in 2011 to $15,000 this season.
A day after short yearlings – weanlings that became yearlings on Jan. 1 – dominated the price board, the broodmares La Defense and Rendezvous Point were co-session leaders at 3:45 p.m. Eastern during Thursday's final session of the Keeneland January all-ages sale.
