Tattersalls October yearling sale Book 1 now online
The catalog for Book 1 of the Tattersalls October yearling sale is now available online, featuring 513 lots.
DRF Breeding StaffAug 08, 2013
The catalog for Book 1 of the Tattersalls October yearling sale is now available online, featuring 513 lots.
Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale ended Tuesday night with fewer crowd-pleasing fireworks, but also on solid financial ground overall.
Citing past successes as partners, Barbara Banke and George Bolton teamed up again, this time on a $750,000 yearling colt by Indian Charlie the pair bought on Tuesday night at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale.
Ramona Bass went to $650,000 early on in the second session of the two-day Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale for a daughter of War Front she called the only horse she wanted out of the sale.
Boosted by Optimizer’s $1,225,000 half-sister, Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale ended its first of two sessions with large gains across the board on Monday.
A filly from the final crop of the late Dynaformer created fireworks late in the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale Monday night, bringing the hammer down at $1,225,000 to Goncalo Torrealba’s Borges Torrealba operation.
A Distorted Humor filly descending from multiple classic producer Better Than Honour sold for $1 million to Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation to pace the action during Monday night’s opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Barry Irwin, the managing partner of the Team Valor racing partnership, went deep on two yearlings early on in the first session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale on Monday night, spending $875,000 on a Medaglia d’Oro colt and $600,000 on an Indian Charlie filly, the second- and third-highest prices at the session at the halfway mark.
Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, looks likely to improve on its 2012 auction figures, thanks largely to a smaller catalog and a healthy demand for ultra-select young stock.
Horses to watch at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.