California owner and breeder Terry Lovingier is reducing his racing and broodmare holdings through a digital sale conducted by Fasig-Tipton. The online auction, which began on Thursday and continues through Tuesday, includes 37 horses owned by Lovingier, primarily broodmares.
Grade 1 winner Angela Renee is the dam of a colt sold for $1.75 million to rank among the top prices at the record-setting Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale earlier this month. That might look like a bargain if her son Gilded Age can best a strong lineup in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes later this week at Saratoga.
Average prices for yearlings declined at Wednesday’s Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton.
Central Banker is continuing to ring up success this year as he looks to continue on to New York's leading sire title.
A colt by the late Arrogate got a timely update to his page in the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale catalog when his full brother, Cave Rock, was a dazzling debut winner Saturday at Del Mar. With that colt selling for $700,000 to rank among the New York-bred sale’s all-time highest prices, Fasig-Tipton closed this year’s run in Saratoga in strong fashion.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas saddled his fifth Kentucky Oaks winner with Secret Oath this spring, and on Saturday is expected to send out that filly classic winner in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Meanwhile, the legendary trainer is looking ahead to his 2023 and 2024 3-year-old crops.
The Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale, which will be held Wednesday at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, has become a more expensive auction in recent years.
The opening session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale set the stage for Monday's action with an improved average price, led by a $600,000 Hard Spun colt. Here are some of the horses to watch in Monday's session, largely based on their pages and recent developments on the racetrack.
Led by a $600,000 Hard Spun colt, the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale got off to a solid start on Sunday evening in Saratoga, posting an improved average compared to last year.
The Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale, at which industry participants have expressed optimism for continued momentum, is set to begin 7 p.m. Sunday, following the day’s racing at Saratoga. The Monday session, on a dark day, begins at noon and offers the bulk of the catalog.
