Randy Bradshaw and Paris, Ky.-based Hidden Brook Farm have jointly acquired Scanlon Training Center in Williston, Fla. Mark Roberts, director of Hidden Brook South, and Bradshaw will relocate their respective operations from the Adena Springs South facility in Williston.
The Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana has catalogued 220 yearlings for its Sept. 29 auction at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, La. The sale is put on by the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association. The auction will begin at 11 a.m. Central.
In advance of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected sale of yearlings on Aug. 10-11, the first boutique sale of the season in North America, take a closer look at the market outlook with DRF Breeding's extensive coverage in a special section.
As the commercial breeding industry was climbing out of its recent recession, the phrase “cautious optimism” was used to describe the state of the yearling market as frequently as a good horse was deemed to have “ticked all the boxes.” With the 2015 yearling season kicking into gear, “cautious optimism” has often been replaced by the phrase “it’s tough to buy the good ones.” The focus is not on the past today but on what many buyers and sales officials suggest is a solid market fueled by demand that may continue to move higher.
Young stallions Bodemeister and Union Rags have sailed through each milestone of their nascent stud careers, proving popular as covering sires and weanling sires. They now approach another major test as the curtain rises on the selected yearling sale season with the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, the first boutique sale in the category this year. Waiting in the wings to contend as prominent yearling sires this commercial season are a number of others who emerged with solid results at last month’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale, the first barometer of the market.
The lights will barely get a chance to dim in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., before the yearling calendar picks right up again. Just four days after playing host to the Saratoga select yearling sale – the category’s first boutique auction of the season – Fasig-Tipton will conduct its annual New York-bred yearling sale, beginning Aug. 15. The same evening on the opposite coast, Barretts will hold its inaugural summer yearling sale at its new Del Mar location. The action continues from there. Here is a look at North America’s major yearling sales of 2015, in chronological order, following the Fasig-Tipton August selected yearling sale.
Following are horses to watch at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale based on their pedigrees and past auction performance of notable family members.
The yearling sale season begins in earnest next week with the 95th Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of select yearlings, featuring 10 yearlings cataloged by 2014 and 2015 leading general sire Tapit. There also are five yearlings in the sale by 2013 leading sire Kitten’s Joy, three by 2009, 2010, and 2012 leading sire Giant’s Causeway, two by 2011 leading sire Distorted Humor, four by 2007 and 2008 leading sire Smart Strike, and two by 2004 leading sire Elusive Quality.
The catalog for the 2015 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s British Columbia Division yearling and mixed sale is now available online, with 91 offerings entered.
LIVE VIDEO: 2015 Fasig Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale August 10-11.
