Wednesday’s breeze show for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training featured fast times, with three colts tying for the fastest furlong and five tying for the fastest quarter-mile.
A trio of colts tied for the fastest time for an eighth of a mile during Tuesday’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring 2-year-olds in training sale under-tack show, stopping the clock in 9 4/5 seconds.
A pair of entries set the bar at the first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training under-tack show, breezing one furlong Monday in 9 4/5 seconds.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association will host a yearling sale at Lone Star Park in late August on a date to be announced.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association will host a yearling sale at Lone Star Park in late August on a date to be announced.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association proved itself to be an able steward of the Texas 2-year-olds in training sale on Monday at Lone Star Park, after taking over the reins from a departing Fasig-Tipton.
A filly by Texas sire Too Much Bling was the standout performer of the Texas Thoroughbred Association 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale under-tack show, covering an eighth of a mile in 10.20 seconds on Saturday at Lone Star Park.
Last August, Snow Proof was the most expensive hip at the Northern California Yearling Sale, selling for $72,000 to John Brocklebank, agent for Dickman Legacy Ranch. Wednesday, Snow Proof was purchased for $150,000 by Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert at the Barretts March select sale of 2-year-olds in-training at Del Mar.
A pair of juveniles from the final crop of Unbridled's Song – who died suddenly in the summer of 2013 – went through the ring at the Barretts select sale, with less-than-stellar results.
The sale of 2-year-olds in training Monday at Lone Star Park will have a new administrator after Fasig-Tipton left the Texas market following last year’s sale, but the mechanics of the auction will be much the same. The breeze show Saturday will again be held at the Dallas-area track, and the auction itself will be in the pavilion right inside the stable gate at Lone Star.
