While a smaller catalog affected gross figures, the average price held steady on Sunday at the John Franks Memorial 2-year-olds in training sale at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La.
A $1.8-million Smart Strike colt paced Wednesday’s activity as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. selected sale of 2-year-olds in training concluded with double-digit gains in total sales, average, and median.
Keeneland sales officials have announced a redesign of the format for the 2013 September yearling sale, which will be held Sept. 9-20.
A $480,000 Flatter colt who worked an eighth-mile in :10.20 seconds led selling Tuesday as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training opened its two-day stand in Ocala, Fla., with significant gains.
Staff writer Joe Nevills examines the pedigrees of six horses to watch on Day Two of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training.
Staff writer Joe Nevills examines the pedigrees of six hips to watch during Tuesday's first session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. sale of selected 2-year-olds in training.
After the Barretts March sale got the juvenile portion of the auction calendar started on a positive note, the industry’s focus now shifts to central Florida for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March selected sale of 2-year-olds in training.
The 2013 select juvenile sales will offer a tantalizing early glimpse at some sires’ first crops, from stallions whose current fees range, from just $2,200 to $15,000.
The clear success story of the previous juvenile season has been Executiveprivilege, who sold for $650,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring 2-year-olds in training sale.
A graduate of the Irish National Stud’s prestigious course for young horsemen, Ciaran Dunne headed for the United States in 1987 at age 21. That trip launched a career that has taken Dunne from farm to racetrack and back again – and has made him one of the nation’s most successful yearling-to-juvenile resellers through the Wavertree Stables that Dunne and his wife, Amy, have operated in Ocala, Fla., since 1995.
