The juvenile auction season starts especially late in 2018, and lasts all the way to the last full week of July. As usual, the bulk of the 2-year-old trade is based in central Florida with the three Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. auctions and Fasig-Tipton's boutique sale at Gulfstream Park, but Barretts will have noteworthy activity on the West Coast after shuffling its schedule.
The catalog for the 2018 Barretts spring sale of 2-year-olds in training is now available online, featuring 157 horses on offer.
The catalog for the 2018 Texas Thoroughbred Association sale of 2-year-olds in training is now available online, with 126 horses entered.
The catalog for the inaugural Big Sky select breeders futurity sale is available online, featuring 16 Thoroughbred juveniles and 14 Quarter Horse juveniles. The auction will take place Saturday at the Montana Expo Park in Great Falls beginning at 1 p.m. Mountain. Horses will be available to view that morning at 10.
The catalog for the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale of selected 2-year-olds in training is now available online, featuring 158 entries.
When it came time to name his business, Dublin, Ireland native Daniel Cunniffe looked toward his homeland. At Fasig-Tipton's recent Kentucky sale, he consigned for the first time under his own HomePride Farm banner.
Business picked up during the second and final session of the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale, with increased activity at the top of the market helping pull the figures past last year’s edition in the final handful of offerings, topped by the last horse in the ring, the $310,000 mare Girl Talk.
The catalog for the 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. March sale of 2-year-olds in training is now online, featuring 573 juveniles.
A mixed marketplace that made great strides in 2017-18 comes to a close at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale, which serves as a final chance for buyers to secure mares before the breeding season.
A bustling renewal of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. winter mixed sale came to a close on Thursday with an open session that continued the trend of across-the-board gains started on Wednesday, led by a $150,000 yearling Malibu Moon filly, and helped clinch massive improvements over the 2017 edition.
