Average price has risen three consecutive years at the Barretts March select sale of 2-year-olds in training – and may be going higher on Monday. The Barretts sale is the first of the year for the 2-year-old market, and can serve as a barometer for the nation.
A trio of colts tied for the fastest furlong breeze at the Barretts March selected sale of 2-year-olds in training pre-sale under-tack show on Thursday, each covering the distance in :09 4/5 seconds at Fairplex Park in Pomona, Calif.
Keeneland announced Thursday that the catalog for its April 2-year-olds in training sale will feature 125 horses.
The training preview for the Barretts March select sale of 2-year-olds in training has been pushed forward 24 hours to Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific because of expected wet weather Friday, the sale company announced Sunday.
Equine Sales Company of Louisiana announced that its 2014 consignor-select yearling sale will be held Wednesday, Sept. 3, at its sales facility in Opelousas, La.
The catalog for the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Texas 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale is now online, featuring 135 entries.
The catalog for the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Florida selected sale of 2-year-olds in training is now online, featuring 157 juveniles.
While the numbers may not show it in black and white, the 2014 edition of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale – the last mixed auction on the calendar – indicated that the bloodstock market remained stable after recovering during 2012-2013.
Given the differences in format and content between last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale and the this year’s edition, the figures for Sunday’s opening session were expected to look very different, and for the most part they did.
A year after the dispersal of Eugene Melnyk’s Winding Oaks Farm helped drive the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale to big gains, the sales company will follow up with an expanded catalog in 2014. The Kentucky winter sale will serve as the final major auction of the mixed sale season, beginning Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern at Fasig-Tipton’s Newtown Paddocks in Lexington. A second session will follow Monday at 10 a.m. The two-day format will mark a return to normal for the Kentucky winter mixed sale, which regularly featured two sessions through 2008, after which the sale was reduced to a single day.
