The young broodmare prospect Home Cooking sold for a solid $500,000 as the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale kicked off Monday with opening-session gains, setting the table for a highly anticipated session Tuesday.
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Multiple stakes-placed gelding Minnesota Ready sold for $380,000 on Friday to lead a digital dispersal of the late Robert Lothenbach’s Lothenbach Stable’s horses of racing age.
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The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale marks the end of the breeding stock sale season in North America, and the end of an era. The sale's catalog has gotten a boost from the addition of dispersal stock from the late Robert Lothenbach's Lothenbach Stable, with his broodmares and yearlings lined up here.
According to statistics released by the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, which conducted the sale, 111 horses sold for a gross of $951,100, or an average of $8,568 and a median price of $6,500. There were 37 horses withdrawn and 25 listed as not sold.
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Amidst a back drop of uncertainty about the future Tuesday's California winter mixed sale will be held at Fairplex Park in Pomona, offering 171 early season yearlings, 2-year-olds, horses of racing age, and broodmares.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s winter mixed sale was topped by a $100,000 Omaha Beach filly as it concluded its two-day run with a relatively steady overall average, and gains in some segments of the marketplace, but overall declines.
A colt by champion and leading freshman sire Mitole sold for $95,000 to lead the first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s winter mixed sale on Tuesday.
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The sale season continues this week with the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s winter mixed sale, which now can boast Breeders' Cup Classic winner White Abarrio among its list of graduates.
A draft of broodmares from Godolphin's powerhouse operation added interest to the second half of the Keeneland January sale. The international outfit sold 17 mares out of its Kentucky broodmare band for a total of $1,103,000.
The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale concluded a four-day run with what officials described as a “fair and stable” marketplace.
