Hip 562, a Hard Spun colt, brought $34,000.
More Midlantic-breds sold at this week’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training at Timonium but for a lower average price.
In that regard, horses bred in the region mirrored the sale as a whole.
Overall, during the two-day sale, which concluded yesterday, 58 horses bred in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia were sold with a combined value of more than $2.6 million. Both numbers represented big jumps from 2013, when 37 Midlantic-breds changed hands with a combined value of less than $1.9 million.
Likewise, the overall sale numbers — 329 sold for a combined $19.6 million — significantly surpassed the numbers from 2013 (249 and a shade under $16.7 million).
That was the good news.
On the flip side, the average price for Midlantic-breds fell, while the median price held steady.
The average price of a Midlantic-bred fell about 10 percent, to $45,629. The median was $30,000, the same as last year. The decline in average resulted in part from a relative dearth of higher-end horses, at least as a percentage of the group. A year ago, five of 37 horses sold fetched at least $100,000, while this year six of 58 sold did so.
[table id=55 /]SALE TOPPERS BY STATE
Maryland
- Hip 11 – $180,000
- Bay Colt, b. 3/22/12
- More Than Ready-Who’s Cozy, by Cozzen
- Worked an eighth in 10 2/5 seconds
- Consigned by Kings Equine Agent, purchased by Bloom Racing Stable
- Stakes-placed Who’s Cozy is the dam of two to race, both winners, both also stakes-placed
New Jersey
- Hip 337 – $30,000
- Dark bay or brown filly, b. 4/19/12
- Park Avenue Ball-Midnight Train, by Red Ransom
- Worked an eighth in 11 seconds flat
- Consigned by Bird in Hand Stables Agent, purchased by Country Life Farm agent
- Midnight Train’s six winners include stake winner Midnight Express and stakes-placed Midnight Mile
Pennsylvania
- Hip 482 – $115,000
- Dark bay or brown colt, b. 4/20/12
- Ecclesiastic-Shorty’s Epiphany, by Northern Afleet
- Worked an eighth in 10 2/5 seconds
- Consigned by Rod McVey Agent, purchased by Olive Guy Stable
- Unraced Shorty’s Epiphany is a half-sister to stake winner Rodeo Licious
Virginia
- Hip 69 – $170,000
- Bay colt, b. 3/18/12
- El Corredor-Blue Hills, by Cure the Blues
- Worked an eighth in 10 2/5 seconds
- Consigned by Bobby Dodd Agent, purchased by West Point Thoroughbreds
- Stake winner Blue Hills has produced four winners from five to race
West Virginia
- Hip 281 – $55,000
- Kiss the Road, dark bay or brown colt, b. 3/30/12
- Bellamy Road-Kiss the Diva, by Pulpit
- Worked an eighth in 10 4/5 seconds
- Consigned by Kenneth Lejeune, purchased by Calumet Farm
- First foal for unraced Kiss the Diva
