The Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders Association Silver Cup yearling sale saw across-the-board declines on Saturday and a significantly higher buyback rate, with an $18,000 Crafty Shaw gelding finishing as the day’s most expensive horse.
The nascent partnership between Barbara Banke's Stonestreet Farm and the Magnier family's international Coolmore operation continued to make waves at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, striking for the boutique auction's second and third highest-priced horses.
First-year yearling sires Orb and Shanghai Bobby were at the top of the leaderboard in their category, with fillies sold for $450,000 and $380,000, respectively.
A steadier marketplace on Tuesday produced positive momentum compared to the previous day’s session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, but overall figures still saw moderate year-to-year declines, as the boutique auction concluded with a $1.45-million Medaglia d’Oro filly leading the way.
The opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale saw steady, if slightly muted, returns on Monday, with mild declines in gross and average sale price and an increased median in a session led by a $950,000 Pioneerof the Nile colt.
The catalog for the 2016 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Alberta Division sale is now online, with 112 horses on offer.
The 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale, the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction, will feature 4,479 entries over 13 sessions.
The catalog for the 2016 Carter Sales Co. OKC summer sale of Thoroughbred yearlings and horses of racing age is now online, with 101 horses on offer.
Buyers have every reason to be skeptical of young sires when looking for a racing prospect, because it's hard to predict whether a sire will succeed. But that does not prevent buyers from gravitating toward young sires. There's nothing more exciting to a potential racehorse owner than an unproven sire, a blank canvas of potential limited only by the imagination.
Following the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale, here's a closer look ahead at some of the other major regional or statebred yearling sales held throughout North America.
