Arqana August yearling sale posts record average
The three-day Arqana August yearling sale, held in Deauville, France, concluded Monday with records set in average price and buyback rate.
DRF Breeding StaffAug 19, 2014
The three-day Arqana August yearling sale, held in Deauville, France, concluded Monday with records set in average price and buyback rate.
The Breeders Sales Co., of Louisiana has cataloged 197 horses to its annual yearling sale that will be held at the Ike Hamilton Center in West Monroe, La., on Sept. 23.
A Forestry colt whose 2-year-old half-brother is a contender for the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 3 sold for a record $75,000 at Tuesday’s Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale at Pleasanton, Calif., a sale that had dramatically higher economic figures than past years.
A yearling colt by champion Big Brown brought $26,000 to top the Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders Association’s Silver Cup auction last Saturday at Arapahoe Park.
The Minnesota Thoroughbred Association hosted a banner renewal of its yearling and mixed sale on Monday, posting new records in gross and average sale price.
Long after Tuesday’s Northern California sale of yearlings and horses of racing age at Pleasanton is over, one consignor could receive quite a bonus.
Prices for New York-breds continued to ramp up at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred preferred yearling sale, with average and median up significantly even though fewer horses found buyers.
Average and median were up once again at the first session of this year's Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale, held Saturday night at the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, as buyers continued to pay higher prices for horses that are eligible for rich subsidies flowing from the downstate casino adjacent to Aqueduct racetrack.
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