Fasig-Tipton Kentucky capitalized on two trends last Monday – a strengthening market for young stock and a healthy demand for racehorses – and got the summer auction season off on a positive note.
A smaller book of 129 horses has been cataloged for this year’s Fasig-Tipton Texas yearling sale, to be held on Monday, August 26.
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. August yearling sale has been released, featuring 841 entries over the selected and open sessions.
Tattersalls will add an additional day to Book 2 of its October yearling sale due to high consignor demand.
More closely resembling an entry in the yearling sale that preceded it, the Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing age sale in Lexington, Ky., entered Monday with plenty of potential, but no back class.
The second-highest-priced horse of Monday evening’s inaugural Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing age sale was Eastwood, a 3-year-old Speightstown colt who has won twice at Belmont Park.
Young horses flashing raw talent early in their careers were a hot commodity Monday at the inaugural Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected horses of racing age sale. The 2-year-old filly Spring Along was among those to capitalize, selling for $370,000 to Off The Hook LLC, as agent, off of her debut win.
A daughter of first-crop sire Desert Party benefitted from some upper-market confidence Monday when she topped Fasig-Tipton’s bellwether Kentucky July select yearling sale on a $460,000 bid from Nat Rea’s Regis Farm. The price easily outpaced last season’s July sale-topping price of $375,000 on a day that kicked off the select yearling auction season with significant gains in average and median prices.
Grade 1-placed Holiday Soiree brought the first big price of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky summer horses of racing age sale, selling to Phase II Thoroughbreds for $370,000.
