In a selective marketplace where buyers and agents are looking to add perfect yearlings to their racing and breeding programs, radiographs of young horses have been used to narrow prospective targets. But can a scan of a still-developing horse accurately predict a horse's potential as a racehorse?
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Authentic entered stud for an advertised fee of $75,000 in 2021, making him the most expensive new sire of that season. The early sale prices for Authentic's progeny are making even that hefty tag look like a bargain for breeders.
More than 1,000 yearlings are set to be presented to upper-market buyers during the first four days – or two books – of the Keeneland September yearling sale. With stellar pedigrees one factor in being selected into those books, it would be impossible to highlight every sibling to or yearling out of a Grade 1 winner. However, some may have some extra attention due to the commercial results of close family members, potential residual value as breeding stock, or recent updates to the family.
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The Keeneland September yearling sale is considered the bellwether for the North American marketplace, offering by far the largest number of yearlings of any domestic sale, at a number of price points. The sale is a globally essential marketplace that reveals how the American Thoroughbred is viewed on the international stage.
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Historic Runnymede Farm will be hoping for more Mage magic in its Keeneland September yearling consignment this month.
A colt by Practical Joke brought $110,000 on Monday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park. Al Pike, agent, purchased the Texas-bred, who is from the stakes-winning mare Jan’s Perfect Star.
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Fresh off celebrating this month's King's Plate winner as a graduate, the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's Ontario division hosts the Canadian premier yearling sale on Wednesday. The CTHS will hold the British Columbia yearling and mixed sale the same day.
Yearlings representing breeding programs across the Southwest – as well as Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania – are among the more than 260 prospects that will be on offer during the Texas summer yearling sale Monday at Lone Star Park.
Puca, the dam of Kentucky Derby winner Mage, will be offered at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale by Case Clay Thoroughbred Management, a new operation for a lifelong Thoroughbred professional.
With strong results from its graduates, including a recent debut win from last year's sale-topper, and exciting new stallions in the mix, the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association summer yearling and mixed sale on Tuesday has momentum.
