Eclipse Award champion Runhappy won the 2015 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Keeneland. Five years later, the freshman stallion's first crop is set to hit the racetrack – perhaps at Keeneland, which cards the season's first prominent maiden special weight races for juveniles.
Exaggerator, who counted the 2016 Preakness Stakes among his multiple Grade 1 victories, quietly garnered an outstanding first book of mares when he entered stud at WinStar Farm. The young stallion's resulting first foals are now juveniles who will be seen in the commercial arena and on the racetrack.
Uncle Mo’s first sons at stud will have their first juveniles in the sales ring and on the track this year, looking to continue on the family pattern of a fast start at stud. They’ll have to contend on the freshman list with some of the latest sons of Tapit, who also has emerged as a sire of sires. Those two storylines collide this year for the international Darley operation’s stallion roster, which has multiple Grade 1-winning sons of both stallions in Nyquist and Frosted in this freshman class.
In advance of the 2020 juvenile sale season, Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, and the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. have jointly announced changes to medication policies and the use of riding crops for under-tack preview shows.
After a season of change in 2019, the calendar for this year's North American juvenile sales season, running from March until June, remains stable, with the continent's major auction companies looking to build on their recent results.
The young broodmare Flashly sold for $310,000 to Sallusto and Albina, agent, at the Fasig-Tipton February sale, highlighting a half-dozen offerings from Zayat Stables. The horses were supplemental entries into the sale after the embattled stable was placed under receivership, with a third-party manager taking the wheel on the operation as it attempts to settle a long line of debt following a recent lawsuit.
A strong second and final session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale featured one of the most expensive horses sold in the recent history of this auction, leading to a gain in average from the comparable session of the 2019 renewal.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale got off to a soft start on Monday, with declines in several economic indicators during its first of two sessions, and will look to tomorrow's catalog standouts to finish up well.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale offers one final chance to pick up a broodmare at public auction as breeding sheds in Kentucky open this week. It also offers the final chance, in a competitive market, to pick up a foal of 2019 as a pinhook prospect ahead of the formal yearling sale season, which opens in July.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s winter mixed sale, the penultimate sale of the mixed auction season, wrapped up its two-day run on Wednesday continuing to prove out several trends of the season. A selective upper market continued to show demand for certain offerings, particularly for young horses, leading to a gain in average, while the median also rose, displaying a healthy middle market.
