Records fall at Fasig-Tipton mixed sale
Yearling sale season in North America, which is still underway, has been smashing records in a generally strong marketplace.
While that sale season concludes later this month, the breeding stock and mixed sale season is underway regionally – and looks to continue strength in a number of sectors. The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale on Tuesday established records for gross, top price, average, and median.
Fasig-Tipton reported 206 horses sold on Tuesday for $6.15 million. The average price was $47,674, up 80 percent from the 2024 figure, while the median spiked 72 percent to $25,000.
The buyback rate was 35 percent. With the yearling marketplace as strong as it is, breeders can be choosy about letting mares, who can produce more yearlings to sell, go, and about selling weanlings who may fetch more in a year.
The sale topper was Showmethemagic, who sold for $260,000 to Thorndale Farm from consignor Garrencasey Sales as agent. The stakes-placed Power Broker mare, who is from the family of Kentucky Oaks winner and champion Proud Spell, sold carrying a foal from the first crop of crack turf sprinter Cogburn.
Showmethemagic's first foal of racing age is the winning 2-year-old Believe in Magic, by Cogburn's sire Not This Time.
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