New York's first-crop sires get a chance to put their first yearlings through the ring in their home state at this week's Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale.
The Lane's End Farm consignment had a magical 48 hours at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale to begin this month, and now looks to keep the momentum going through the rest of this summer and fall's auctions.
With a $2.3 million colt by white-hot young sire Gun Runner leading a staggering 14 seven-figure yearlings, the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale brought the curtain down on a record-smashing edition Tuesday night.
The boutique Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, which got off to a smashing start Monday night, concludes with its second and final session Tuesday evening, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Led by a $1.5 million Uncle Mo colt and three other seven-figure horses, Fasig-Tipton opened its boutique Saratoga selected yearlings sale Monday night, the first chance to test the upper portion of the North American Thoroughbred marketplace, in smashing fashion, with double-digit gains across the board.
The North American yearling sale season is set to continue with the boutique Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale next week, an upper-market auction that has produced some of racing's elite, including newly-minted Hall of Famer Tepin. Download our special edition, available now as a PDF, to learn what goes in to preparing a yearling for the Saratoga sale and how the catalog is assembled; look at the recent success on the track and in the sales ring for the New York-bred program, which will also be highlighted in an upcoming sale; analyze this year's class of first-crop sires; and more.
Larry Best has become known as a prominent buyer at auctions across the board over the last five years. But Best, who breeds and races as OXO Equine, is now poised to make an impact as a commercial breeder as well. About one year after selling his first homebred yearling, he will bring one of the most anticipated lots in the catalog to the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale – a colt by reigning leading sire Into Mischief and out of reigning Broodmare of the Year Indian Miss.
After the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale became the first public auction to sell a Thoroughbred via cryptocurrency last year, one of the nation’s leading consignors, Taylor Made Sales, expanded the use of that medium by announcing that it has partnered this summer with Dello, a Montreal fintech company, to offer cryptocurrency payments to its customers.
After a pair of Fasig-Tipton sales at Saratoga in August, the yearling season will continue with sales hosted by a variety of companies and breeders' associations across the United States and Canada. Take a look at the calendar in these quick snapshots, in chronological order.
Every yearling sale owes its fate, at least in part, to the preceding 2-year-old sale season. This year's Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale, in particular, is riding a wave from the juvenile sale season, which showcased the quality of state breeding programs and in which pinhookers investing in New York-breds were rewarded handsomely.
