In a show of combined sire power, a colt by reigning North American leading sire Tapit and out of a daughter of international titan Galileo sold for $2 million to El Capi Racing Stable during Monday night’s opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.
A colt by reigning leading sire Tapit and out of a Grade 1 winner capitalized on his royal lineage to become the first seven-figure horse of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, going for $1.2 million to the partnership of Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, and Robert LaPenta.
The yearling sale business in California is nearing its busiest week of the year.
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 With the 2015 yearling season kicking into gear, “cautious optimism” has often been replaced by the phrase “it’s tough to buy the good ones.”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.
