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.
Fasig-Tipton’s new July horses of racing age sale got a big boost Wednesday with word that Grade 1 winner Starship Truffles is now in the catalog.
The second and final session of the Japan Racing Horse Association’s select sale ended on Tuesday with double-digit gains in gross receipts and average. The session, comprised entirely of foals of 2013, followed Monday’s yearling session, and once again trade at the top was dominated by progeny of two-time Japanese Horse of the Year and leading sire Deep Impact.
The Japan Horse Racing Association’s select sale kicked off its two-day run Monday with the yearling session, which posted record gross receipts and was headlined by an almost $1.8 million Deep Impact colt out of a Grade 2-winning mare.
The Tattersalls July sale, which runs July 10-12 in Newmarket, England, gets a boost this year from Group 2-placed Address Unknown as well as drafts from such famed operations as Juddmonte, Darley, and Shadwell, among others.
The select yearling auction season kicks off at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky headquarters July 15, and this year there’s a bonus. Immediately following the yearling session, Fasig-Tipton will offer a new auction: the summer sale of selected horses of racing age.
Catalogs for the California Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Northern California yearling sale, scheduled for Aug. 13 at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., are now available.
