Yearlings by preeminent Japanese sire Deep Impact dominated the action at Monday’s Japan Racing Horse Association select yearling auction, numbering the four highest prices through the ring. The auction, held at Northern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido, posted a 2 percent decline in gross compared with the 2013 renewal, but a 3 percent increase in average and an 8 percent rise in median.
Joe Nevills discusses six horses with standout catalog pages offered during the Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing age sale.
Horses to watch at Fasig-Tipton July in the yearling and Melnyk dispersal sections.
The unofficial motto for the second edition of the Fasig-Tipton summer sale of select horses of racing age is: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The fledgling sale exceeded expectations during its inaugural run, helped by a tight deadline prior to the auction and efforts to promote the entries, both early and late, through exhaustive online updates and e-mails. Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. said he did not plan to deviate from that blueprint during the upcoming renewal.
Optimism springs eternal as the auction calendar moves from one segment to the next, but this month’s transition into the yearling market arguably does not bring with it the same wave of momentum that preceded the major yearling sales in 2013.
The catalog for the Barretts Paddock Sale at Del Mar of race ready horses is now available online and may be viewed on the auction company’s website.
The Tattersalls July sale finished on Friday in Newmarket, England with across-the-board improvements compared with last year’s renewal.
Noted bloodstock agent Victor Heerman Jr. died July 2 at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., The Blood-Horse reports. He was 89.
Blue Horse Charities, the charitable wing of the Fasig-Tipton Sales Co., announced that grants totaling $117,900 have been awarded to 36 non-profit organizations that work to rehabilitate, retrain, and adopt out off-the-track Thoroughbreds.
