Tattersalls: Autumn horses in training sale posts steady returns
The Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale wrapped on Thursday with results closely in line with last year’s edition.
DRF Breeding StaffNov 01, 2013
The Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale wrapped on Thursday with results closely in line with last year’s edition.
A pair of broodmares in foal to Grade 1-winning stallions topped Monday’s inaugural open yearling and mixed auction put on by the Equine Sales Company in Opelousas, La. Cat Eyes, believed to be in foal to Songandaprayer, topped the sale at $17,000. She was sold with a My Pal Charlie filly by her side. Capote’s Halo, checked in foal to Paddy O’Prado, brought $15,000 as the second-leading lot Monday.
A 2-year-old filly by Killenaule led the way during the Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s Indiana fall mixed sale, held Oct. 19 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.
The 2012 edition of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale was a banner renewal, posting new records in overall gross, average and median prices. A year later, those high-water marks are a distant memory. After three days of selling at the 2013 renewal, a total of 818 horses changed hands for an all-time October sale-high gross of $27,908,000. That figure was a 21 percent increase from the $22,991,600 generated from 880 yearlings sold in 2012.
The early offerings in the final session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale produced a new sale-topper when a Smart Strike filly went to Borges Torrealba Holdings for $800,000, the second-highest price paid for a yearling at the October sale through 1980.
The second day of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale belonged to trainer Mark Casse who signed the tickets as agent on five of the top 10 horses, helping drive the highest single-day gross in the sale’s history.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Ontario Division has cancelled its 2013 December mixed sale due to a lack of entries. In the coming days, the CTHS will distribute details regarding an online auction for the horses that would have been available during the sale.
It did not take long for the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale to set a hot pace on Tuesday, with a Distorted Humor colt selling to Ernie Semersky’s Conquest Stables for $500,000 as the fifth horse through the ring.
The upward momentum of the yearling market carried through to the first day of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale, with solid gains during Monday’s session.
Horses to watch on the third day of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale.