The boutique Thoroughbred yearling market moves to the seaside town of Deauville, France, this weekend, where Arqana’s important August yearling auction will coincide with the Deauville racing festival’s Group 1 Prix Morny and Prix Jean Romanet.
The catalog for the Goffs Orby yearling sale is now available online, featuring a slightly expanded 425 lots.
Tuesday’s Northern California Sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton had a higher sale topper and an increase in median price from 2012, but a decline in average price.
Dancing Rain, the 2011 Epsom and German Oaks winner, will go to auction this year at the Tattersalls December sale in Newmarket, England. She is in foal to unbeaten champion and first-year sire Frankel.
The Silver Cup yearling auction sponsored by the Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders Association realized significant gains in average, median, and total receipts after a Pleasantly Perfect gelding brought a sales-topping bid of $42,000. The auction was held on Aug. 10 at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo.
Forty-three yearlings sold for $100,000 or more during the two-day Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale on Saturday and Sunday night at the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., propelling the sale’s average up 16 percent to $72,480.
Preliminary results from the Minnesota Thoroughbred Association’s 2013 Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse yearling and mixed Age horse sale, held on Saturday night, had a record 48 yearlings changing hands.
Prices for New York-bred yearlings sold at auction continued to climb during the first session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale, held on Saturday night at the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion just down the street from Saratoga Race Course.
Fasig-Tipton’s New York-bred preferred yearling sale Aug. 10-11, which comes just days after the Saratoga select yearling auction’s solid financial performance, looks to continue the positive momentum. Hopes are high that the New York-bred market will rise again, thanks partly to continuing demand for racing prospects and to the rich New York-bred program.
Joe Nevills examines five standout catalog pages from the Fasig-Tipton New-York preferred yearling sale.
