A filly from the first crop of Desert Party set the new standard at the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale, selling for $460,000 to Canadian businessman Nat Rea’s Regis Farms to take over the sale lead through noon Monday at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.
A colt from the first crop of current freshman sire Pioneerof the Nile set the bar high early at the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., selling for $260,000 to Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm.
Yearlings to watch at the Fasig-Tipton July sale, to be held Monday at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.
The catalog for the Barretts paddock sale of race-ready horses at Del Mar is now online, currently featuring 27 horses with the potential for more as the sale draws closer.
Tattersalls ended its three-day July auction Friday with across-the-board gains and a Juddmonte Farms session-topper on the final day.
A pair of late additions have joined the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky summer selected horses of racing age sale, both with graded stakes résumés, and a Grade 1 winner has been declared from the catalog.
Durand, a winning 3-year-old who broke his maiden in course-record time, will point for the Qatar Derby after topping Thursday’s selling at the Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket, England.
Following are some horses to watch at the Fasig-Tipton July sale of selected yearlings and summer selected horses of racing age sale. The list is based on strength of pedigree for the yearlings and racing performance for the older horses.
When Fasig-Tipton Kentucky’s July select yearling sale begins at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington on Monday, consignors and buyers will be looking for sale figures to rise from the 2012 levels that they felt were generally healthy. And while many are expecting buyers to remain highly selective, the broad feeling among sale participants is that decreased supply, plus rising confidence, will lift the tide for many select yearling consignors.
The three-day Tattersalls July horses in training sale began Wednesday with strong trade resulting in increases in gross, average, and median, topped by Group 1 performer Miblish.
