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White Abarrio is the cover boy for the OBS March catalog as the juvenile sales season begins with a stable calendar and a marketplace showing promising signs. Robust purse structures have led to a demand for young stock, as seen at last year's yearling sales when pinhookers stocked up for this season.
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Horse of the Year Authentic was a breakout horse for dominant stallion Into Mischief, becoming his sire's first classic winner and never finishing worse than second in eight starts while earning more than $7.2 million. He looks to extend his sire's influence as a highly anticipated freshman sire of 2024.
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Mitole, Maximus Mischief, Vino Rosso, and Omaha Beach, all standing at Spendthrift Farm, finished in the top four places on the 2023 freshman sire earnings list. All four have second-crop offerings at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co's March sale of 2-year-olds in training.
After some adjustments in recent years, the major-market 2-year-olds in training sale season in North America for 2024 looks similar to 2023.
One-hundred-twenty-four horses are catalogued for the 2024 Texas Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale in April.
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Zetta Z, the dam of unbeaten Nysos, sold for a record $2 million as the final horse through the ring, and Grade 1 winner Bell's the One sold for $1.3 million to lead a dispersal for the late Robert Lothenbach, with those two topping the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale, which concluded Tuesday evening with major year-to-year gains.
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.
