Louisiana-bred leads Lone Star yearling sale
A Louisiana-bred colt by Aurelius Maximus brought $95,000 on Tuesday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park.
Mary RampelliniAug 27, 2025
A Louisiana-bred colt by Aurelius Maximus brought $95,000 on Tuesday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park.
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Led by an 8-year-old mare sold for $200,000, a digital reduction sale of racing and breeding stock owned by Harris Farms ended on Tuesday with 75 horses selling for $1,045,000, according to auction host Fasig-Tipton.
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Robert Norman hit the jackpot at the Texas summer yearling sale in 2023, when he came away with both Coal Battle and Secret Faith. The auction will be renewed Tuesday at Lone Star Park, and Norman said Lonnie Briley, who trains Coal Battle, and Jayde Gelner, who trains Secret Faith, will both be on the lookout for yearlings for his operation.
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Leonard and Jon Green’s D.J. Stable will offer a curated selection from its bloodstock holdings at this fall’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, which begins Nov. 4.
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With a $525,000 Early Voting filly and a Practical Joke colt of the same value leading strong activity at the top of the market, the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale finished with records for gross revenue as well as average and median sales prices as it concluded Monday evening in Saratoga Springs.
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A filly from the first crop of Early Voting led the way at $525,000 as the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale opened with strong demand at the top of the marketplace Sunday evening in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
A diverse buying bench at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga became even more dynamic with the addition of some new faces to the ranks of those buying high-ticket horses, including Randy and Jenny Boyd of Tennessee, who struck at $2.6 million for a Gun Runner filly out of Grade 1 winner Paradise Woods.
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Unbeaten Horse of the Year Flightline had a strong takeoff with his first yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.
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Bucchero stood his first five seasons in Florida before moving to New York beginning with the 2024 breeding season. Thus, his first state-conceived foals will not be yearlings until next year, but there's a taste of things to come at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale that takes place Sunday and Monday.
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Led by a $4.1 million Into Mischief colt, the upper marketplace confirmed that it is still alive and thriving as the 104th Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale smashed its records across the board.