Heir Kitty, the winner of the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita last December, is bound for Japan after selling for $750,000 at Sunday evening’s paddock sale at Del Mar.
Sunday’s Paddock Sale at Del Mar has a catalog ranging from graded stakes winners Ciao Bella Luna, Handsome Mike, and Heir Kitty to a claimer scheduled to run an hour before the sale.
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale, featuring more than 1,000 yearlings across two sections, is now available via the auction company's website.
The Equine Sales Company of Louisiana has cataloged 233 yearlings for its select sale, to be held at 10 a.m. Central Sept. 3 in Opelousas, La.
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.
