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At a record-breaking Keeneland September Sale, there were very few hidden gems throughout the two weeks of trade and buyers shopping at all levels had to dig deep to land any of the treasures they came to find. 31 different countries were represented on the Keeneland results sheets, but just like some domestic buyers, there were also international buyers that came away without signing a ticket. The way Newmarket-based trainer Dylan Cunha chooses to look at it, leaving empty handed just means you're landing on the right horses. "Our shortlist...

TIMONIUM, MD - Buyers had every right to expect competitive bidding during Monday's first session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale--with normal Maryland shoppers joined by bidders shut out at previous sales--and the arena did not disappoint. By the close of business Monday, 149 yearlings grossed $4,577,300. The average was $30,720 and the median was $20,000. During the sale's first session in 2020, 122 yearlings sold for a total of $2,983,600. The session average was $24,456, the median was $15,000, and the buy-back rate was 24.7%. "It was a...

NEWMARKET, UK--Like a cyclist who has been struggling into a bitter headwind, only to find himself suddenly towed along by the slipstream of a juggernaut, Book 3 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale opened with all the startling momentum achieved, against every temperate expectation, in Book 2. Once again, the masks around the ring concealed gapes of incredulity as a brisk trade maintained all indices almost precisely in step with the returns last year, when the wider world was so very different a place. Aggregate turnover of 5,092,700gns, through the...