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One of the last chances for Florida breeders to get in on the horse comes with two Battalion Runner yearlings cataloged at this week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. October yearling sale. The two-session auction, on Oct. 8-9, has 583 lots cataloged, including supplemental entries as of Oct. 3.
A Maryland-bred filly by City of Light sold for $165,000 to top Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale as the auction posted a relatively steady average and improved median.
When Ohio-bred Harlan’s Holiday was going to post as the favorite in the 2002 Kentucky Derby, on the national broadcast trainer Kenny McPeek was asked about his colt’s place of birth. “He’s from Ohio, not Mars! The only thing that separates the states is a river.” Years before, McPeek began his training career at River Downs where he could look up in the mornings and see the hills of Kentucky across the Ohio River.
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Stuart S. Janney III, who is chairman of The Jockey Club and a lifelong Thoroughbred breeder and owner, will offer a complete dispersal of his breeding stock at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
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Maryland-bred Studlydoright was set to return to his home state for Saturday's $150,000 Laurel Futurity. The colt has career bankroll of $152,180 entering the race and has already more than earned back his $110,000 purchase price from last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale, showcasing the quality of the sale's graduates. Just a few days after Studlydoright goes for his latest stakes win, Fasig-Tipton will conduct this year's Midlantic sale on Tuesday.
Average prices fell more than 5 percent at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton California fall yearling sale in Pomona, an auction in which eight horses were listed as sold for $100,000 or more.
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Curlin and Gun Runner have much in common – both were Horse of the Year honorees while trained by Steve Asmussen, are now in the Hall of Fame, and have emerged as classic sires. They were in lockstep this month as they emerged as the leading sires of the Keeneland September yearling sale.
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They represented nearly one-quarter of the North American Thoroughbred foal crop, according to The Jockey Club’s projections. They shipped across town to Keeneland from some of the best nurseries in the heart of Kentucky horse country, and they fetched the prices that their blue-blooded ancestries demanded – such as the $5 million son of Hall of Famer Curlin.
The Fasig-Tipton California fall yearling sale, the state's premier annual auction, arrives Tuesday at Fairplex in Pomona with a slightly different format this year and after mixed results in 2023.
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The 2024 Keeneland September yearling sale has already become the highest-grossing edition of this sale in history, with two days of trade still remaining – and is poised to make a run at its other records as it heads toward the finish line this weekend.
