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.
Returns in the first half of the year can help forecast the health of both the juvenile and pinhooking markets. With that in mind, there is an air of trepidation when buyers and sellers discuss the pinhook-buying market during the 2016 yearling season.
Following are horses to watch at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling 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.
A solid and sizeable group of first-year yearling sires in North America includes three classic winners – one an Eclipse Award champion – a juvenile champion, a sprint champion, a Breeders' Cup Classic winner, and a Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner. The ontrack earnings of these seven horses alone total more than $21.2 million. And that's not even factoring in about two dozen other Grade/Group 1 winners who will be represented nationwide in the next three months.
The sales in Saratoga are the latest stops on the major North American yearling auction calendar, which hits both coasts and rolls through late October. Here is a look at North America's major yearling sales of 2016, in chronological order, following the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred sale.
