Going Commando fillies top CTHS Manitoba sale
A pair of fillies by Going Commando topped the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Manitoba Division) yearling sale on Sunday, which closed with steady returns.
Joe NevillsAug 21, 2017
A pair of fillies by Going Commando topped the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Manitoba Division) yearling sale on Sunday, which closed with steady returns.
The Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association's summer yearling and mixed sale has established itself as a competitive auction on the West Coast for its sale prices and graduates, and hopes are that the trend will continue this year.
This year's Texas Thoroughbred Association summer yearling and mixed sale will be Monday, the same day the total solar eclipse will shadow the U.S. If there were ever a time to believe in superstition, TTA Sale Director Tim Boyce said it's now.
Finest City, the champion female sprinter of 2016, will be offered at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.
The California Thoroughbred Breeders Association’s Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale closed on Tuesday with declines across the board, and was topped by a $70,000 Smiling Tiger filly.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Lady Eli will be offered at this year’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, just days after an expected start at the Breeders’ Cup.
First-crop-yearling sire Cairo Prince continued his run as the breakout star of this summer’s sales, with a solid week in Saratoga led by a $500,000 colt who established a record price at Fasig-Tipton’s New York-bred yearling sale.
Young New York stallion Mission Impazible could not have picked a better time to have one of his offspring give him the first graded stakes win of his career.
Expectations were high for the 2017 edition of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale after the grounds saw relentless activity during Friday’s first full day of showing, and the results made good on that potential, posting records in gross, average, and median, and the auction’s highest-priced offering of all-time – a $500,000 Cairo Prince colt
The first session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale took an extra half-hour to get started, after severe weather delayed the races at adjacent Saratoga Race Course and the start of the sale was pushed back accordingly. But the positive returns of the session were worth the wait, led by a $350,000 City Zip colt.