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.
The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale has been important for Craig and Holly Bandoroff even before the founding of Denali Stud in 1990.
The following are horses to watch at the Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale, based on their pedigrees and the past auction performance of notable family members. Physical conformation, veterinarian records, and late pedigree updates were not taken into consideration.
After declines in key categories in 2016, the Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale on Tuesday at Pleasanton has a smaller look. In 2016, there were 240 horses in the catalog. This year, there were 151 as of Wednesday.
A handful of New York-breds went through the auction ring against ‘open company' at the elite Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale – and acquitted themselves well.
