The opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale produced a solid day of trade, with gains in comparable figures led by the $475,000 broodmare prospect Super Majesty.
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. March sale of 2-year-olds in training is now available online, with 674 horses filling the book.
One of the highlights of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale catalog is the dispersal of Robert Zoellner's Rockin' Z Ranch, which puts 32 horses on offer ranging from yearlings, to graded-stakes-winning broodmares, to a 3-year-old with Kentucky Derby points.
Hips to watch at the Fasig-Tip February sale.
As the last major stop on the North American mixed auction calendar, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale will face the same challenges its sister sales saw during this cycle. However this auction has a few things going for it that its predecessors did not.
Machmer Hall has purchased the most expensive weanling or newly turned yearling in each of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic mixed sale's past three renewals, and it bought the second-highest weanling four editions ago.
True to form for many regional-level mixed auctions, the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale struggled to connect beyond the top offerings, producing lower average returns and a higher buyback rate.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. winter mixed sale took the brunt of a market becoming less forgiving toward lower-level entries, punctuated by significant across-the-board declines in monetary figures and a higher buyback rate.
The catalog for the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream selected 2-year-olds in training sale is now available online, featuring 162 entries.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale in Maryland has always been a melting pot of the region's breeding programs, and those programs' recent growth suggests the ingredients might become of increasingly higher quality.
