While a softer upper market led to declines in the figures during the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale’s opening session on Monday, five horses sold for prices in excess of $300,000 to lead a relatively solid middle market.
The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale may be the first major-market North American sale of 2020 – but in reality, it actually comes toward the end of the season. Breeding stock sales began in November, and with breeding sheds opening in February, this is the penultimate opportunity to acquire a broodmare at public auction in Kentucky before then.
A 2-year-old filly by Declaration of War was purchased for $60,000 at Tuesday’s January mixed sale in Pomona, Calif., making her the most expensive horse of a sale. The sale ended with a higher gross and average compared to the corresponding event in 2019.
Fresh off earning the distinction as the leading freshman sire in North America for 2019, Triple Crown winner American Pharoah's first Southern Hemisphere yearlings will be offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling sale beginning this week.
California’s only annual mixed sale will be held on Tuesday at Fairplex in Pomona, the second consecutive year the event has been conducted by the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
Multiple stakes winner O Dionysus is headed for a career over hurdles after selling for $135,000 to Irv Naylor at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale.
Golden Lad, who has locked up Maryland's leading freshman sire title, was responsible for the top two prices in a strong edition of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale.
Strong activity at the top of the market, led by the $450,000 sale of stakes-winning juvenile Laddie Liam, led to double-digit gains across the board at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale on Tuesday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium.
Keeneland has cataloged 1,827 horses for its January horses of all ages sale, which runs over five sessions from Jan. 13 to 17.
Maryland welcomes a solid class of new stallions to the state in 2018, and their resulting first weanlings born this year give them a home-base commercial test at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale, set for Tuesday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium.
