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.
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.
