TIMONIUM, MD – The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale opened with an abbreviated session Monday evening in Timonium, featuring five six-figure transactions. Leading the way was a Maryland-bred filly by Tapizar, who attracted a final bid of $150,000 from Willie White on behalf of Skeedattle Associates. In all, 102 yearlings sold for $2,680,000. The average [...]

TIMONIUM, MD – The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale opens with an abbreviated session beginning Monday at 4 p.m. at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. Monday's session of the two-day auction will include the first 150 yearlings in the catalogue and hips 151 through 435 will be offered during Tuesday's session, which begins at [...]

The inaugural Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale will be held Thursday at Fairplex in Pomona, with bidding on the first of 285 catalogued yearlings scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. PT. The Fairplex sales grounds, which last saw auction action with the CTBA sale in January, was crowded with shoppers Wednesday morning. “It's been a [...]

The inaugural Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale will be held Thursday at the Fairplex Sales Pavilion in Pomona, with bidding scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. PT. The one-day auction features a catalogue of 285 yearlings, with 25 withdrawn as of Tuesday afternoon. Fasig-Tipton will be hosting its second California auction, following its inaugural Santa [...]

The 13-day Keeneland September Yearling Sale, paced by a record-setting $8.2-million filly, concluded Sunday in Lexington with its fifth-highest gross ever. In all, 2,855 yearlings sold for $360,004,700–just off the 2018 figure of $377,130,400 and the sale's second-highest gross since 2007. It was the third straight year the auction grossed over $300,000,000, following eight years [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland September Yearling Sale concluded its two-day Book 3 section with a day of frenetic bidding Monday in Lexington. A colt by Quality Road became the day's highest-priced offering when selling to bloodstock agent Justin Casse for $625,000. The yearling was one of five to sell for $400,000 or over on [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland September Yearling Sale's Book 3 section opened with a day of competitive bidding Sunday in Lexington as 256 yearlings changed hands for a total of $30,025,000. The sixth session average was $117,285 and the median was $85,000. Of the 366 horses offered, 110 failed to reach their reserves for a [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – There may have been no bidding at Keeneland Thursday, but it was anything but dark at the sales grounds as consignors were kept busy showing horses to perspective buyers on a sweltering day in the Blue Grass. The 13-day September sale opened with a blockbuster, three-session Book 1 and expectations are for [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland September Yearling Sale, traditionally considered a bellwether auction for the industry, opens its 13-day run Monday with the first of three select Book 1 sessions beginning at noon. The 2018 September sale was one for the record books, with an all-time high average and the fourth-highest gross in auction history. [...]

Keeneland has been actively encouraging consignors to submit video scopes of their horses ahead of its September Yearling Sale and the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association has endorsed a uniform protocol, which includes a 10-day window for scopes, as a way to help buyers incorporate the technology in their pre-sale inspections. The TDN reached out [...]

Sierra Farm, in the culmination of a dozen years breeding in Central Kentucky, had its first seven-figure sale when Larry Best bid $1.4-million to acquire an American Pharoah colt from the operation at last year's Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The milestone moment was bittersweet for the team, though, as the farm's co-founder Ed Hudon passed [...]

In July, the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association announced it was endorsing the American Association of Equine Practitioners protocol on pre-sale video scopes as the organization sought to create uniformity and increase buyer confidence with the hope the technology would become more widely utilized at auctions in the U.S. Three weeks ago, Keeneland announced it [...]