The Fasig-Tipton Texas yearling sale will take place Monday at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tex., with a smaller catalog than last year.
The 2009 catalog has 370 horses, down from last year's 506, and will take place in one day instead of two. In 2008, the two-session auction grossed $3,369,700 for 281 yearlings, with an average price of $11,992 and a median of $4,500. The gross climbed 3 percent, but average and median fell 12 percent and 27 percent.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Yearling-to-juvenile resellers BC3 Thoroughbreds has deepened its involvement in the international Thoroughbred marketplace this year, with the ultimate goal of attracting global pinhooking investors and expanding 2-year-old in training sales' popularity.
BC3 held its first Future Stars preview day and sale Aug. 23 at Sutton Grange training farm in Victoria, Australia. The event attracted well-known trainers, including Gai Waterhouse, and agents from Australia and Asia.
Unusual Heat led California's stallions in progeny earnings in 2008, and he retook the lead in those rankings for 2009 with Mama Rosa's win in a maiden race on turf at Del Mar on Thursday.
Through Thursday, Unusual Heat has 2009 progeny earnings of $3,533,133, edging in front of Silic ($3,495,108), who led the sire standings since March when Gladiatorus won the $5 million Dubai Duty Free on the Dubai World Cup undercard.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's August yearling sale ended Thursday with double-digit declines that signal continuing difficulties for this season's yearling sellers.
Thursday's session-topper was Hip No. 907, a $38,000 Congrats filly out of Red Hot Star, by Tabasco Cat. Vinery Stables purchased the dark bay or brown filly from Lisa McGreevy's Abbie Road Farm agency.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's August yearling auction continued Wednesday after two days of dramatic declines at its select and first open session.
Wednesday's session leader at 3:50 p.m. was a $45,000 Stormy Atlantic-La Defense colt that Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck's Summerfield agency sold. The buyer was listed as MC Bros. The colt is a half-brother to 2006 stakes winner Quelle Surprise.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Bootleg Annie has had 10 trainers. She has been claimed five times and has raced at six tracks in Arizona and California.
Those circumstances sound like the career path of an older cheap claimer. Bootleg Annie is not one of those. She is getting older - she's 5 this year - but the story is getting more interesting by the month, and her record is getting better.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund passed a resolution at a board meeting on Thursday morning that will allow the fund to freeze any monetary distributions to a breeder who has been charged with animal cruelty, according to officials of the fund.
The resolution was adopted as a response to the arrest in April of Ernie Paragallo, an upstate
Multiple graded winner Icy Atlantic will enter stud in Panama after being purchased privately by Raul Gonzales-Abreu, owner of British Mist Stud Farm.
An 8-year-old Stormy Atlantic horse, Icy Atlantic last ran on May 23, when he finished ninth in the Elkwood Stakes at Monmouth Park. He currently is in Venezuela, where Gonzales-Abreu plans to run him in the Venezuelan Grade 1 X Clasico Internacional Propietarios La Rinconda in Caracas on Aug. 30. Icy Atlantic will then retire.
Fox Hill Farms's two-time graded winner Old Fashioned will enter stud alongside his sire Unbridled's Song at Taylor Made Farm near Lexington, Ky.
Fox Hill's owner, Rick Porter, and Taylor Made announced Monday that they had reached an agreement to put Old Fashioned on the same stallion roster with Unbridled's Song, who stood this year for an advertised fee of $112,500 if paid on Nov. 1 and $125,000 under stands-and-nurses terms.
Arqana's Deauville yearling sale in Deauville, France, ended Monday afternoon with improvements in average and median prices, fueling optimism that the select sales are returning to
stability after losses last year and earlier this season.
The four-day auction sold 343 yearlings, slightly down from last year's 360, and saw a slight loss in gross, from 39,967,000 euros last year to 39,369,000, or about $55,510,290, this season. But the average price of about $161,837 was 3 percent higher than last year's, and the median, approximately $105,750, was up 7 percent.