Wednesday, Oct. 26
Lexington, Ky. - The Fasig-Tipton Fall Yearling Sale finished even stronger than it started, with final day producing the topper for the three-day sale.
A colt by Medaglia d'Oro out of Catumbella sold for $380,000 to Adena Springs, owned by Frank Stronach. The colt was consigned by Mill Ridge.
Final figures for the sale were $17,046,800 in gross sales for the 710 yearlings that were sold. The average was $24,010. Last year, 690 horses were sold, for $9,395,000, for an average of $13,616. The median price just from $5,000 in 2010 to $12,000 this year.
"There was a lot of demand for a wide variety of horses, and the sale obviously was very well-attended," Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning told BloodHorse.com. "We even had some international participation, which helps. We had buyers from Korea, Panama, Indonesia, and Japan. And the Canadians were a big influence on this sale again."
For the day, there were 235 horses sold for $5,876,100 an average of $25,005.
Fasig-Tipton will be busy again on Nov. 6, for its one-day evening November Sale. That event features several horses who will ship to Lexington for the sale after running in the Breeders' Cup on Nov. 4-5 in Louisville.
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Tuesday, Oct. 25
Lexington, Ky. - The second day of the Fasig-Tipton Fall Yearling Sale was better than the first, with a higher gross sales total and a higher average over the first day and a huge improvement over a year ago.
A total of 254 horses sold at auction for
$6,358,800, an average of
$25,035. Gross sales were up $1.61 million from the first day of the three-day sale, and $2.7 million over a year ago.
Tuesday's average of
$25,035 was an improvement over Monday's
$21,554 average and much better than the 2010 sale's second-day average of
$14,861.
Tuesday's sale topper, and for the sale overall so far, was $260,000 for a filly sired by Arch and with Royal Sanction as the dam. Steven Young had the top bid with James Herbener at the consignor.
The sale, the last major yearling sale of the year, ends today at Fasig-Tipton's auction facility on Newtown Pike.
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Monday, Oct. 24
Lexington, KY - The Fasig-Tipton Fall Yearling Sale got off to a strong start Monday, with gross sales up more than $1.5 million over the 2010 sale.
There were 220 horses sold at auction for $4,741,900, up from a gross of $3,151,000 for the first day of the sale in 2010, which saw 12 more horses sold than in 2011
The average sale price of $21,554 was up nearly $8,000 from 2010 and the median was $12,000, compared to just $5,000 in 2010, a down year for Thoroughbred sales.
The Fasig-Tipton Fall Yearling Sale is the last major yearling sale of the year. Monday's sales figures are consistent with improvement at other yearling sales in North America in 2011.
A colt sired by Medaglia D'Oro out of Especially Me was the sale topper, going for $200,000. Debbie Easter had the top bid for the horse, consigned by Denali Stud.
The number not sold because they did not meet their minimum reserve price was down from 96 on the first day in 2010 to 75 in 2011.
The three-day sale continues today and Wednesday at Fasig-Tipton's auction facility on Newtown Pike.