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Buyers will have plenty of opportunity to get a good look at the first crop from Maximus Mischief at next week's Fasig-Tipton July Sale. With a dozen yearlings currently slated to go through the ring for Maximus Mischief, Spendthrift's Mark Toothaker said the young sire is generating quite the commercial buzz.

As the 2-year-old sales season begins, we spoke with consignors about the overall health of the market in 2022.

With the OBS March Sale Undertack Show underway and just a few weeks until the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale, we asked consignors to show us a few of their sales horses who have high-class pedigrees and have looked like they could be stars in the making from day one.

In this episode of our 'Thoughts from Ocala' series, we asked consignors to point out a few first-crop sires who might be flying under the radar now, but could very well be making headlines when their 2-year-olds take to the sales ring and the racetrack. The responses we received were all across the board, but all the freshman sires noted stand for under $15,000 this year and could eventually wind up creating valuable opportunities for both breeders and buyers alike.

With the start of the 2-year-old in training sales just around the corner, a visit to Ocala proved to be informative as we checked in with consignors who are going through fine-tuning process with their sales horses. In this edition, we spoke with Niall Brennan, Ciaran Dunne and Jimbo Gladwell about the freshman sires whose 2-year-olds have impressed them most throughout the breaking and training process, and we asked them to show us a few of those sires' most promising progeny that we will see at the sales in the...

In this first episode of our new series with 2-year-old consignors in Ocala , we spoke with Eddie Woods, Nick de Meric and Susan Montanye about the freshman sires whose 2-year-olds have impressed them most throughout the breaking and training process, and we asked them to show us a few of those sires' most promising progeny that we will see at the sales in the coming weeks.

Nurlan Bizakov has recently added Haras de Montfort et Preaux and Haras du Mezeray to his European empire, uniting them under the Sumbe banner. Now, the Sumbe team sends out their first-ever sales consignment at Arqana December. Kelsey Riley talks to them.

The TDN Europe Team is on sight at the 2021 Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale.

Agent David Ingordo has had great luck purchasing yearlings bred by Dixiana Farm with successful graded stakes winners Express Train and Midcourt. He went back to the well this year at the Keeneland September Sale for a $1.15 million colt by Quality Road.

Rosilyn Polan, the breeder of GIII-winning TDN Rising Star Wit, had a Keeneland September Sale to remember when her City of Light colt sold for $1.7 million. We visit her Sunday Morning Farm consignment here.

City of Light's first yearlings have been in high demand at the Keeneland September Sale with his leading progeny selling as the current topper, going for $1.7 million in Book 2. We took a look at some of his youngsters slated for Book 3.

The 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale got off to a hot start when 11 youngsters sold for seven figures during Book 1 of the annual auction. We checked in with Keeneland's Shannon Arvin and Tony Lacy, as well as a few top buyers and consignors.