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GI Florida Derby winner Audible was the most popular new sire in WinStar's history in 2020. This year, his first yearlings take on the sales ring.

Yearlings from the first crop of champion Vino Rosso sold for top dollar at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale. In just a few weeks, the next round of progeny by the Breeders' Cup Champion will head to Saratoga.

A Curlin half-brother to graded stakes winner Gronkowski topped the Fasig-Tipton July Sale, selling to DJ Stable for $600,000.

A filly by the late Arrogate from the Wynnstay consignment brought $400,000 at the Fasig-Tipton July sale.

A son of Gun Runner out of stakes winner Perfect Wife sells for $430,000 to de Meric Sales at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale.

Hip 90, a daughter of first-year sire Omaha Beach out of GIIISW Gas Station Sushi, sold for $410,000 at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale. We talk to Spendthrift's Ned Toffey here.

Buyers and sellers on site at Fasig-Tipton's Newtown Paddocks this week may have noticed signage for a rising company called EquiTrace. Launched in 2019, the EquiTrace App not only identifies horses with the use of a microchip scanner, but also provides management and traceability solutions for horse farms and equine organizations.

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...