A Curlin colt with a classic pedigree sold for $600,000 as the final horse through the ring as the Fasig-Tipton July sale posted gains to kick off the North American yearling sale season. The sale-topping colt was purchased by Leonard Green's D. J. Stable from the consignment of Gainesway, as agent.
A Curlin colt sold for $600,000 as the final horse through the ring, ending Tuesday on a high note as the Fasig-Tipton July sale posted gains as it kicked off the North American yearling sale season.
Multiple graded stakes winner Newgrange is headed back to California, but for a different set of connections, after being sold Monday evening at Fasig-Tipton in Kentucky.
Enthusiasm for young racing stock helped the Fasig-Tipton July selected horses of all ages sale post big gains Monday evening, with multiple stakes-placed Kuchar bringing $500,000 to lead the way.
The following are hips to watch, based on their notable pedigrees, at the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale, set for Tuesday at the company’s Newtown Paddocks headquarters in Lexington, Ky.
Last year, Fasig-Tipton began to explore the viability of a sale for breeding stock in the summer. Monday afternoon's Fasig-Tipton July selected horses of all ages sale will offer some horses in that sector, including a big addition with a lifetime breeding right to promising freshman sire Girvin.
After mixed and juvenile sale seasons that displayed enormous market enthusiasm for young racing stock, the one-stop shopping provided by Fasig-Tipton's July sales in Kentucky figure to benefit from that momentum, even as the economic climate remains uncertain in the country at large.
The California Thoroughbred Breeders Association has changed the date of its annual Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale from Aug. 9 to Aug. 17, the organization announced on Thursday.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age brought the formal North American juvenile sale season to a close Thursday night, with most of this spring's sales posting gains in key figures.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale concluded on Thursday night with record figures.
