Heritage Place in Oklahoma City experienced a slight uptick in average during its second annual mixed Thoroughbred sale, led by a yearling son of C’Mon Tiger who brought $10,000. The auction, held Saturday Dec. 14, featured both breeding stock and horses of racing age.
There was no shortage of positive takeaways from November’s Kentucky mixed sales season, but the active market’s long-term effects likely will not be known for many years.
The catalog for the 2014 Barretts January mixed sale is now online, with a book of 306 horses entered for the one-day auction.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale finished the North American auction calendar on a positive note Monday, with continued signs of market recovery on national and regional levels.
The last major auction during what has been a largely positive year in the North American bloodstock market will come on Dec. 9 when the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale is held in Timonium, Md.
The nine-day Tattersalls December sale ended on Thursday with the final of four breeding stock sessions showcasing broodmares, and when overall results were tabulated the auction reported sizable gains in gross, average, and median compared with last year’s auction.
Immortal Verse sold to BBA Ireland for 4.7 million guineas, or about $8,093,400 in U.S. funds at current conversion rates, to establish a new European record for a broodmare at the Tattersalls December breeding stock sale.
The catalog for the 2014 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale is now online, featuring 1,590 offerings.
The stallion Dance Master and more than 70 broodmares will be offered during the second annual Thoroughbred mixed sale at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City on Dec. 14. The catalog of 135 head includes not only breeding prospects and yearlings, but also horses of racing age. The auction will begin at 11 a.m. Central.
Tattersalls concluded its four-day December foal auction on Nov. 30, and a strong and consistent presence from some of the European bloodstock market’s biggest players – led by Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum – propelled the auction to records in gross, average, and median.
