Off a strong international reception in the sales ring, Caravaggio moves to Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky in a homecoming of sorts as his first foals prepare to race this season.
After a season of upheaval in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the calendar for this year's North American juvenile sales season, formally running from March until June, regains some semblance of normalcy for 2021.
The North American 2-year-old sales season, formally running from March to June, is an anticipated precursor to the season's juvenile races, including star-making Grade 1 action at the boutique summer meetings at Del Mar and Saratoga. This season will hopefully find some equilibrium without a cloud looming over it.
The North American 2-year-old sales season, formally running from March to June, is an anticipated precursor to the season’s juvenile races, including star-making Grade 1 action at the boutique summer meetings at Del Mar and Saratoga.
The promising 3-year-old colt Hello Hot Rod was among the noteworthy late supplements to the Fasig-Tipton February sale as he came in off a win in the Jimmy Winkfield Stakes on Jan. 31 at Aqueduct. He was purchased by George Sharp for $335,000 from the consignment of Elite Sales, as agent.
The broodmare Beloveda sold for $510,000 as the third horse through the ring Tuesday, and multiple stakes winner Saguaro Row sold for $500,000 as the last horse through the ring when the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale concluded its two-day run with gains.
The annual Texas Summer Yearling Sale has been scheduled for Aug. 30 at Lone Star Park, the Dallas-area track and the Texas Thoroughbred Association announced Tuesday.
A yearling colt by Speightstown sold for $165,000 as the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale opened with solid figures, including an improved average and improved buyback rate, on Monday in Lexington, Ky.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale is the last breeding stock auction of the season – the last chance to acquire mares at public auction before the breeding sheds open this month, and the last chance for pinhookers to pick up prospects for the yearling sales later this year. Some of the last horses into the catalog for this particular auction figure to play a prominent role.
Keeneland will conduct a sale of horses of racing age in April as it continues to re-imagine its early-season sale offerings and to grapple with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
