Gross, average up at Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Eastern fall yearling auction ended Wednesday with gains in gross and average and a slightly lower median.
Glenye Cain OakfordOct 07, 2010
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Eastern fall yearling auction ended Wednesday with gains in gross and average and a slightly lower median.
The Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling sale’s second of three sessions ended with average and median down, but so slightly as to remain nearly level with last season. Gross fell 6 percent.
One day after showing increases in gross and average but a significant downturn in median price, Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Eastern fall yearling auction entered its second and final day Wednesday with a session-leading $150,000 Corinthian colt.
A $250,000 After Market colt topped Tuesday's opening session as Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling kicked off with mixed results in Timonium, Md.
Coolmore Stud became the first buyer since 2007 to pay seven figures for a European auction yearling Tuesday when agent Demi O’Byrne paid about $2 million for a filly by Coolmore sire Galileo.
Jerry Bailey and Lance Robinson’s Gulf Coast Farms, best known as the breeder of champion and classic winner Lookin At Lucky, will disperse its bloodstock due to declining business in mare-leasing programs.
English 2000 Guineas hero Makfi, who beat Goldikova in a French Group 1 this year, has been retired early at age 3 after contracting ringworm, according to Racing Post. Makfi had been considered a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Mile.
Unzip Me's rise to the top of the turf female sprint division in California seemed like a remote prospect at this time last year, when she had won 2 of 5 starts, all on synthetic surfaces.
Grade 1 winner Friends Lake and Grade 2 winner Beethoven will stand in Saudi Arabia in 2011 after undisclosed Saudi interests purchased the two central Kentucky horses.
KNC Investments, a group involving Jerry Jamgotchian that has offered to purchase interests in Lane’s End stallions Lemon Drop Kid and Kingmambo, has filed a motion in Kentucky’s Woodford County Circuit Court in hopes of clearing the way for the horses’ syndicate members to consider their offer.