A yearling colt by Ministers Wild Cat was purchased for $45,000 at Tuesday’s Northern California Sale in Pleasanton, the most expensive hip of an auction with double-digit declines in gross receipts, average, and median prices.
A Pioneerof the Nile colt sold for a sale-record $600,000 as the strong upper end of a polarized market propelled the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale to another record renewal.
A $450,000 filly from the blockbuster first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah topped the opening session as the New York-bred sale, coming off a record renewal in 2017, capitalized on momentum to open with a vastly improved average price.
The California summer sale season begins Tuesday at Pleasanton with the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association’s auction of yearlings and horses of racing age.
Into Mischief, among last year's leading juvenile sires, is again putting together an outstanding season with his 2-year-olds at the marquee summer meets of Del Mar and Saratoga, and he put in a strong showing Monday and Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, Summerfield Sales, and Sunnyfield Farm combined for success with a New York-bred colt testing “open company” Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. The same trio will combine again to sell a filly as statebreds take the spotlight at Fasig-Tipton's New York-bred preferred yearling sale, set for Saturday and Sunday nights at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion.
It was Medaglia d'Oro's world, and everyone else was just living in it Tuesday night at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.
Eighty-one yearlings from the commercially popular first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and a colt who is a half-brother to Triple Crown winner Justify will be among the highlights as the Keeneland September yearling sale celebrates its 75th anniversary next month.
Family was the prevailing theme of the opening night at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. Two yearlings who are well-related, to say the least, being from the first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, fetched seven figures to help boost the average price on a night when memories of the late Fasig-Tipton executive William E. Graves were everywhere.
As the nascent North American yearling sales season travels to Saratoga Springs this month, Daily Racing Form brings you a special section, presented by Stonestreet Farm, providing an in-depth look at the market.
