The Jockey Club is projecting a 2012 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 24,700, the smallest since 1971 and a decline of 8.5 percent from the estimate of 27,000 registered foals for 2011.
Hopes for New York-bred sales yearlings are high this year, now Aqueduct’s gaming machines are due to push $40 million into New York’s purses and another $6 million into its statebred fund.
Tom VanMeter, Olin Gentry, and Thomas Gaines have formed a new sales agency after selling their interests in Eaton Sales to that agency’s majority partner, Reiley McDonald.
The Northern California yearling sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Tuesday has undergone a transformation this year, in an effort to increase interest and boost revenue.
Go for Gin, winner of the 1994 Kentucky Derby, has joined fellow Derby winner Funny Cide and other equine stars at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions in Lexington, Ky.
In a year when other yearling sales are slimming down because of smaller foal crops, the New York-bred auction’s catalog grew by almost 23 percent.
Continuing this year’s trend of smaller catalogs because of a decreasing annual foal crop, the Keeneland has cataloged 11 percent fewer horses to its September yearling sale next month.
Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum spent more than $8.5 million for 13 yearlings at the two-day Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, including six sired by champion Bernardini.
Spending by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and yearlings by third-crop sire Bernardini dominated the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale on Tuesday night, propelling the two-day sale’s gross, average, and median to increases over last year’s comparable figures.
Spending by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and yearlings by Bernardini dominated the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale on Tuesday night, propelling the two-day sale’s gross, average, and median to increases over last year.
