Tuesday's WTBOA sale has momentum
With strong results from its graduates, including a recent debut win from last year’s sale-topper, and exciting new stallions in the mix, the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association summer yearling and mixed sale on Tuesday has momentum.
The sale will be held at the Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion on the grounds of Emerald Downs. There are 82 yearlings cataloged for the sale, which begins at 1 p.m. Pacific. There also are 23 older or mixed entries in the catalog.
At last year’s sale, 68 yearlings sold – mixed selections were calculated separately – for gross receipts of $1,219,700. The average price was $17,677, and the median was $12,000, with a healthy buyback rate of 11 percent. All the figures were improvements from the 2021 edition of the sale, which had 80 yearlings sell for $1,134,000, with a $14,175 average, a $10,000 median, and a buyback rate of 13 percent.
Leading last year’s renewal was an $85,000 colt by California resident Sir Prancealot. Now named Impeachalot, he was a 3 3/4-length debut winner Aug. 10 on the Del Mar turf for trainer Brian Koriner and owners Philip Lebherz and Richard Meister.
Another WTBOA graduate to win this summer is Washington-bred Bodenheimer, who sold for $27,000 in 2019. The son of Washington-bred graded stakes winner Atta Boy Roy – a 2006 WTBOA graduate – is 3 for 3 this year at Canterbury Park.
As a 2-year-old, Bodenheimer won the Indian Summer Stakes at Keeneland and the Prairie Gold Juvenile at Prairie Meadows. He was stakes-placed at Churchill Downs last year.
Washington boasts an exciting group of incoming stallions with their first offerings this summer. According to The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares Bred, the two most popular stallions in the state in 2021 were first-season sire Barkley, who won the Grade 3 Longacres Mile, with 29 mares; and graded stakes winner Conveyance, with 25 mares in his first season in Washington after moving from Kentucky.
Barkley, who stands at El Dorado Farms in Enumclaw, has five yearlings in the WTBOA catalog, after early outs. Conveyance, who resides at Blue Ribbon Farm in Buckley, has 12.
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