- Hip 26 (Wildheartsneverdie) – $4,000
- Hip 93 (High Wire Act) – $30,000
- Hip 94 (My Aunt Dianne) – RNA
- Hip 95 (Mystic Love) – $100,000
- Hip 186 – $23,000
- Hip 194 (The Great Griffter) – RNA
- Hip 206 – $92,000[/boxify]
Despite the smallest book in recent years, yesterday’s Fasig-Tipton December Mixed Sale provided yet more evidence that, after several fallow years, the Thoroughbred sales market has begun its climb back.
In fact, excluding 2011 — an unusual year in which a significant dispersal bolstered the mixed sale — yesterday’s event was the most productive mixed sale since it shrank from two days to one in 2008. Overall, 133 horses changed hands with a combined value of more than $1.5 million and an average value of $11,404.
While the number sold was down slightly, from 140, the number entered but not sold also declined, to 52 (from 55). The percentage of horses not sold, 28.1 percent, was, again excluding 2011, the lowest since 2004.
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- Weanlings – $13,648
- Horses of racing age – $10,125
- Broodmares – $8,070
- Yearlings – $7,971
- Broodmare prospects – $7,333[/boxify]
Buyers showed the most interest in two types of horses: racing/broodmare prospects (average price: $23,555) and weanlings (average price: $13,648). In fact, three of the five hips to sell for more than $50,000 were weanlings. The former group included the sale topper, two-time stake winner Mystic Love, a three year-old who was both consigned by Bill Reightler and purchased by him for Greenmount Farm. The latter group included the sale’s second most lucrative purchase, a New York-bred Kitten’s Joy colt out of the winning E Dubai mare Right On It consigned by McMahon of Saratoga and purchased by Highclere Inc.
More horses bred in Maryland — 45 — sold than bred in any other mid-Atlantic state, up from just 28 a year ago. Moreover, the average value of the Maryland-breds sold rose from about $4,600 to more than $10,200, a 122 percent increase.
[boxify cols_use =”2″ cols =”4″ position =”right” order =”none” box_spacing =”5″ padding =”3″ border_width =”1″ border_color =”blue” border_style =”solid” ]Number/average value of horses sold from…- Maryland – 45/ $10,213
- Pennsylvania – 24/ $12,225
- Virginia – 5/ $11,840
- West Virginia – 5/ $14,600
- New Jersey – 1/ $2,000[/boxify]
Twenty-four Pennsylvania-breds changed hands, second most among the region’s states, while the average value of the West Virginia-breds — $14,600 — was tops in the region. That average included hip number 150, a weanling filly by High Cotton out of the productive Numerous mare Grey Traffic; she fetched $57,000, the second highest amount brought by a Midlantic-bred at the sale.
(Featured image, of Mystic Love, by Jim McCue, Maryland Jockey Club.)
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