LEXINGTON, Ky. - The select yearling auction season opened Tuesday with Fasig-Tipton’s July sale in Lexington, where the sale-topper was a $310,000 Harlan’s Holiday colt bought by the late Jess Jackson’s widow, Barbara Banke, and George Bolton, Stonestreet’s former partner in Horse of the Year Curlin. Bolton also races Astrology in partnership with Banke.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Watch throughout the day for updates on Fasig-Tipton's July select yearling sale from DRF's Glenye Cain Oakford in Kentucky. Full recap »
Horsemen have nominated 107 horses to the Breeders' Cup through a program the organization implemented last year allowing owners to nominate ineligible horses through a special one-time fee, the Breeders' Cup said on Friday at the close of the program.
The Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket, England, ended Friday with gains across the board and a $294,000 top price for a 4-year-old winner by Cape Cross.
Shortened from four days to three this year, the July auction sold 457 horses of various ages for a gross of about $9,743,954, resulting in an average price of about $21,322 and an $11,540 median. Compared year-to-year in the local auction currency of guineas, gross inched upward by just over 1 percent, but average increased 5 percent, and median jumped by 17 percent.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The late Edward P. Evans estate’s complete dispersal, which will take place at Keeneland during the September yearling and November breeding stock sales, will include 244 horses, according to the catalog Keeneland issued Friday.
The catalog is available online at http://apps.keeneland.com/evans/ev-catalog.asp.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − The season’s first significant group of select yearlings has gathered at Fasig-Tipton’s Newtown Paddocks headquarters, where the bellwether July selected yearling auction will take place Tuesday. As buyers look over the wares, Fasig-Tipton executives and consignors are looking for signs that 2011’s select yearling season will be better than 2010’s and that bloodstock prices will begin to show signs of recovery after several years of contraction.
With two stakes wins and a perfect record after three starts, City Route has become the star 2-year-old in Northern California this summer, a circuit she may be close to outgrowing.
On July 2, City Route won the Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton by four lengths, leading throughout. She is expected to start in the $50,000 Wine Country Debutante at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa on Aug. 6. “Then, I’d consider taking her to Southern California,” said trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, who bred and co-owns the filly.
