Practical Joke colt brings $110K at Texas yearling sale
A colt by Practical Joke brought $110,000 on Monday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park. Al Pike, agent, purchased the Texas-bred, who is from the stakes-winning mare Jan’s Perfect Star.
The sales topper was one of 175 horses that sold for a total of $3.24 million, according to figures provided by the Texas Thoroughbred Association. The average was $18,542 and the median, $11,000.
Those average and median were down from the corresponding auction a year ago, when 161 horses sold for $3.41 million in receipts, for an average of $21,000. The median was $14,000. Last year, a Texas-bred filly by Too Much Bling topped the auction at $100,000.
During the sale Monday, there were 77 yearlings that did not sell.
The Practical Joke colt is a half-brother to stakes winner Road Bloc and three other winners. Jan’s Perfect Star, who is by Imperialism, won the Arkansas Breeders’ Stakes at Oaklawn Park during a racing career in which she earned $173,808.
Scott Mallory, as agent, consigned the sales topper and also the second highest-priced seller, a colt from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Vekoma who brought $90,000. The unnamed Louisiana-bred is out of the winning Tale of the Cat mare Winning Saga and he was purchased by Scanlon Training and Sales.
The third-highest lot at the sale was a Competitive Edge colt who sold for $85,000. He was bred in Texas.
There were 63 Texas-breds that sold Monday and 61 Louisiana-breds, according to a statistic provided by the Texas Thoroughbred Association. The annual auction featured horses from breeding programs across the Southwest, and a handful of other states such as Kentucky.
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