Ten horses added to Barretts Paddock Sale at Del Mar
The catalog for the Barretts Paddock Sale at Del Mar of race-ready horses continues to grow, as 10 additional horses have been added to the roster.
DRF Breeding StaffJul 16, 2014
The catalog for the Barretts Paddock Sale at Del Mar of race-ready horses continues to grow, as 10 additional horses have been added to the roster.
A colt out of 2002 U.S. Horse of the Year Azeri led the session and a filly by two-time European Horse of the Year Frankel sold for just under $1 million during Tuesday’s Japan Racing Horse Association select foal sale.
Award-winning owner and breeder Eugene Melnyk, who announced his intentions to exit the Thoroughbred business last month, gave the Fasig-Tipton July sale a major boost with the dispersal of his racing and breeding stock.
The second edition of the Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing age featured nearly twice as many horses sold as last year’s inaugural edition, due largely to the dispersal of prominent owner and breeder Eugene Melnyk’s racing stock. Several horses from the Melnyk dispersal drew interest during the evening, including a seven-figure sale-topper, but the auction concluded with declines in both average and median.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July selected yearling sale remained consistent with last year’s form on Monday, posting modest increases in gross sales and average price, and a small decline in median.
Hillaby, a daughter of 2007 Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill, set the bar on Monday evening at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky summer selected horses of racing age sale, selling to Stonestreet Stables for $500,000. Shortly afterward, her half-sister Paradise Alley sold for $320,000 to Bridlewood Farm.
The popularity of sire Harlan’s Holiday continued to show on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July selected yearling sale, with Northwest Stud going to $400,000 to secure a son of the late stallion who became the co-second highest price of the session.
A half brother to graded stakes winners Executiveprivilege and Hoppertunity sold to Northwest Stud for $550,000 to take over as the top price at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July selected yearling sale.
A colt from the penultimate crop of the late Unbridled’s Song sold to Sandford Racing for $400,000 to take over as the top price of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale.
The bar for the high price at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July selected yearling was raised quickly Monday afternoon when Jay Em Ess Stables secured a Candy Ride ridgling for $250,000, quickly surpassing a $235,000 Harlan’s Holiday colt who went to Conquest Stables.