With Arqana running today through Tuesday, and Fasig Maryland's mixed sale on Monday, those sales will wrap up the 2014 North American and European commercial auction marketplace. Whereas last year saw gains in the neighborhood of 30%, this year has been more about consolidation; in most respects, the market is more or less level with [...]

Over eight days of selling during the last two weeks at Goffs and Tattersalls, a total of 1,521 weanlings have changed hands, for gross revenues of $87,348,860 when converted to U.S. dollars, and an average of $57,428. About 30% of those sales were from the first crops of 19 stallions which each had 10 or [...]

When stallion managers set their prices they are trying to appeal to two constituencies: owner-breeders and commercial breeders. Maybe there aren't as many owner-breeders as there used to be, but they can still have a significant impact on stallion prices and availability. Dubawi, now Darley's kingpin stallion, is a good, dramatic example of this: the [...]

Sometimes, things just crystallize right before your eyes: the light goes on. Often this unshakeable conviction unravels at the eighth pole, but occasionally inspiration strikes when you're trying to divine the secrets of the Thoroughbred marketplace. https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/members/columnist_frame.cfm?id=9583 [...]

It's an odd thing about sales companies: they are the first to respond to market changes by altering the formats of their sales, yet, both in America and Europe, they're fiercely competitive in what they have to say about the sales–or, rather, what they say about their sales. I'm quite grateful because, really, from the [...]

When we combine Fasig-Tipton's sale Monday with Keeneland November Book 1 on Tuesday-Wednesday, we're looking at the three key sessions of the Kentucky November Mixed Sales. There were a total of 647 horses (including late additions) catalogued on the three days, of which 381 (58.9%) were sold. Gross receipts over the three days were $159,530,000, [...]

by Bill Oppenheim There were a total of 45 North American and European stallions with first foals 2012 (F2012), which had nine or more yearlings sell in their first crops at the 2013 yearling sales, and which now are the 2014 class of freshman sires. Now that the Winter Mixed sales are finishing–Goffs today and [...]

There will be a lot of handicapping going on over the next few days, in the first instance for the ultra-competitive Breeders= Cup cards Friday and Saturday. Last year the stars aligned for once and I hit the jackpot wheeling the ill-fated Chriselliam (Iffraaj) in the GI Juvenile Fillies Turf, which ironically (since it was [...]

The major yearling sales season ended this week with another 1,272 yearlings sold in the October Yearling Sales at Fasig Kentucky (837) and Arqana (435), both sales averaging, as you can see from the accompanying Weekly Sales Ticker, Ain the thirties@ ($35,850 at Fasig; i36,427 at Arqana). We'll have complete tallies for the sale season [...]

Last week it was Dubawi week at Tattersalls' October Book 1 yearling sale, as the Maktoum family and friends bought all 10 which sold during Book 1 for an average of nearly $1.1-million, topping even the mighty Galileo at the sales. This week his son, Poet's Voice, consolidated his own lead among 2014 first-crop yearling [...]

By Bill Oppenheim When stallion managers set their prices they are trying to appeal to two constituencies: owner-breeders and commercial breeders. Maybe there aren't as many owner-breeders as there used to be, but they can still have a significant impact on stallion prices and availability. Dubawi, now Darley's kingpin stallion, is a good, dramatic example of [...]

As things turned out, the difference between Tuesday's opening session of this week's Tattersalls October 1 yearling sale and the subsequent two sessions could be summarized by the following statistic: Galileo (Ire) and Dubawi (Ire), between them, had 42 yearlings catalogued to the sale. On Tuesday, only six of those 42 were catalogued; the remaining [...]