With a global pandemic disrupting racing and sales in Europe, the auction companies Arqana, based in France, and Goffs UK will join forces to hold a 2-year-old sale in Ireland on June 29 and 30.
The online auction company ThoroughbredAuctions.com will conduct a digital spring mixed sale from May 20 to 27, which has the potential to be the company’s biggest foray yet into the Thoroughbred bloodstock world.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association has announced both the addition of a horses of racing age session to its annual yearling auction Aug. 24 at Lone Star Park and consignor incentives for the sale.
Fasig-Tipton is expanding its opportunities for buyers to bid on horses remotely, announcing that it will offer online bidding at all its live auctions.
The Ontario division of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society has announced that it’s planning on conducting the 2020 Canadian Premier yearling sale as scheduled on Thursday, Sept. 3, at Woodbine.
As the Thoroughbred racing and bloodstock industry faces an uncertain spring and summer calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Keeneland announced that it plans to run its September yearling sale on schedule.
A $1.8 million Snitzel colt became the highest-priced horse ever sold in an online auction as the high-profile Inglis Easter yearling sale in Australia, conducted digitally due to the global coronavirus pandemic, recorded relatively solid results as it was keenly watched by the global bloodstock community.
Fasig-Tipton, which annually opens the yearling sale season in North America, could be delayed due to the evolving coronavirus pandemic.
American Pharoah has extended that popularity to the Southern Hemisphere, with his first crop of yearlings bred at Coolmore Australia being well-met in the auction ring. However, not even America's long-awaited Triple Crown hero is exempt from the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic, and his next yearlings to hit the auction ring in Australia will do so under unique circumstances, in a digital format.
Fasig-Tipton has announced the postponement of its Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in response to the evolving coronavirus pandemic. The move puts the juvenile sale season in North America on hiatus for the next two months, with no activity scheduled until June, at the earliest.
