The Fasig-Tipton 2016 Saratoga fall mixed sale showed a marginal year-to-year regression in gross and average, and was topped by the $150,000 sale of broodmare Coronation Street.
Though Barretts has long since settled into its new digs at Del Mar, the auction company's fall sale of yearlings and horses of all ages will have a vintage look for the immediate future. The next two editions of the fall sale will be held at Barretts' former base at Fairplex Park in Pomona, Calif., after the 2015 edition took place at Del Mar.
The continued ascension of the New York-bred program over the past half-decade gives those selling horses at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale plenty of optimism. The auction will take place Monday, Oct. 17 at the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern.
The catalog for the 2016 Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders Association sale is now available online, featuring 98 horses on offer prior to supplemental entries. The auction will take place Thursday, Nov. 17, at Horseshoe Park Equestrian Centre in Queen Creek, Ariz., beginning at 2 p.m. Mountain.
The Keeneland November breeding stock sale is one of the major fall mixed sales held shortly following the Breeders' Cup, and it is notable for top mares who head straight from the races to the sale grounds and horses who earn major catalog updates throughout the month of October. The following are Keeneland November hips to watch with recent catalog updates, selected based on their ontrack performance and pedigrees.
The 2016 Heritage Place Thoroughbred yearling and mixed sale turned in a stellar performance Sunday, showing growth in average sale price led by an $18,000 Astrology colt.
The catalog for the 2016 Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association fall mixed sale is now online, with 46 horses on offer.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 160 initial offerings, including Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, for its Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale was a showcase event for first-year stallions in Maryland and nearby states in front of a local buying base. Seven stallions who debuted at stud in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, or West Virginia during the 2014 breeding season had yearlings from their first crops change hands on Tuesday.
Maryland's all-time leading sire, the late Not For Love, got his final home-state yearling-season hurrah on Tuesday when three yearlings from his final crop sold at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale.
