A trio of juveniles posted the fastest time of the Barretts select sale of 2-year-olds in training pre-sale under-tack show on Friday, covering the distance in 9 4/5 seconds.
About 90 minutes after the start of Monday’s Barretts select sale of 2-year-olds in training, three prospects will go through the ring in succession and likely provide an early indication of the status of the juvenile market.
The catalog for the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Texas 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale is now available online, with 121 offerings.
The catalog for the Stars of Tomorrow 2-year-olds in training sale, hosted by Evangeline Downs and the Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana, is now available online with 93 entries.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. will begin implementing the Association of Racing Commissioners International guidelines for the use of controlled therapeutic medications on juveniles entered in its sales. The sale company also adjusted its policies to restrict the use of whips, beginning with the under-tack show for the March sale of 2-year-olds in training.
Baryshnikov, a Grade 2-placed stakes-winning stallion, was purchased by Blaine Davidson for $7,000 on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale to stand privately at his Terre Haute, Ind., farm.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale continued to come down from the highs of the Eugene Melnyk dispersal in 2013, trending downward across the board.
The opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale saw varied returns Sunday evening in Lexington, Ky.
Registered white Thoroughbreds are a highly uncommon sight at public auction, but Polar Foxx is an even more exclusive vintage among that select group. The 2-year-old daughter of Silver Mountain will be just the third white filly offered at a North American auction since 1999 when she goes through the ring on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale.
Heritage Place, a premiere Quarter Horse auction house in Oklahoma City that introduced a Thoroughbred sale three years ago, is making some changes to that auction. The Thoroughbred sale will be expanded to include a yearling session for 2015, while the auction will be held more than two months earlier than usual, on Oct. 4.
