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There was a flurry of activity at the end of Book 1, which ended up with more than a handful of million-dollar yearlings. With four of the day's nine million-dollar-plus horses selling in the final dozen or so hips to be offered, the second and final session of Book 1 of the Keeneland September yearling sale finished strong. The session topper and likely sale topper was hip 435, a son of Tapit out of the GISW and 'TDN Rising Star' Tara's Tango (Unbridled's Song) offered by Eaton Sales on behalf...

There was strong trade at the top end of the market at Keeneland September, with five yearlings selling for a million or more on day 1. While stringent COVID-19 protocols put in place to allow the world's largest yearling sale to be held at all may have dulled some of the electricity typically felt in the building when high-dollar horses are changing hands, competition for the top lots remained intense, with five transactions reaching the seven-figure mark and 23 offerings selling for $500,000 or more. In total, 109 head changed...

Fasig-Tipton's two-day Selected Yearlings Showcase concluded Thursday with solid enough trade-especially on flashier offerings-given the global uncertainty leading up to the first major yearling sale in the year of COVID-19. The auction, necessitated by the cancellation of the July, Saratoga and New York-bred sales, featured 348 transactions for gross receipts of $61,765,000 at an average of $177,486 and median of $120,000. The buy-back rate was 33.7%. The sale topper came on Wednesday when Robbie Medina, bidding on behalf of Joe Allen, went to $1.5 million to acquire a regally bred...

The long-anticipated and delayed start to the 2020 yearling season is underway, and day 1 of the Fasig-Tipton Selected Session featured a $1.5 million Quality Road filly. T he Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase, a hybrid of the company's July yearling sale, Saratoga sale and New York-bred yearling sale brought about by COVID-19- induced rescheduling, kicked off the 2020 yearling sales season Wednesday with signs of life for the market. The sale began with a section of 164 New York-breds, and that group seemed to struggle a bit more than the...

With five weeks until the Keeneland September Sale, we sat down with President-elect Shannon Arvin to learn about some of the protocols that will be in place and some of Arvin's expectations going into the sale. On July 29, Arvin issued a racing and sales update that offered a glimpse into some of the protocols that would be in place next month once the yearlings enter the sales ground. She explained that Keeneland has been working closely with state and federal government officials, including representatives from Senator Mitch McConnell and...

In part two of our breeze-up video series with Johnny Hassett of The Bloodstock Connection, the pinhooker and sales consignor assesses the delayed season with just one sale left to come.

The first in-person sale in Kentucky since February is in the books. The TDN's Katie Ritz was on hand to gauge the reaction. Fasig-Tipton's Boyd Browning reflects on the sale, "Hopefully the main thing that we've done is we've restored some confidence in the marketplace. I think that a month ago or six weeks ago, you didn't know what were the sales going to look like? And if you had sales, what were they going to feel like? I mean, were they going to be disastrous? Were they going to...

The Fasig-Tipton July Horses of Racing Age Sale is the first in-person sale in Kentucky since February. We visited the sales ground and spoke with several consignors on some of their top lots, and their expectations going into the sale. Katelyn Jackson of ELiTE Sales is embracing the sale, "I'm really impressed by Boyd and his team and all the precautions that they've put in place with the COVID screenings. And I think everyone's really excited to get back to normal and start having sales again. We missed out on...

It's happening, the nation's #1 horses of racing age sale. Monday, July 13, 2020 in Lexington, Kentucky. Where will you be?

Johnny Hassett of the Bloodstock Connection chats to Emma Berry about the disruption to the European breeze-up sales season. Europe's belated breeze-up season at last gets underway on Thursday in Newmarket, with the combined Tattersalls Craven and Ascot Breeze-Up Sales (for which the breeze took place on Monday) setting the scene ahead of the joint Goffs UK and Arqana Breeze-Up in Doncaster six days later on July 1. Osarus staged its juvenile sale online on May 27, but these will be the continent's first live, in-person (and, crucially, in-horse) bloodstock...

"You will find diamonds in the rough there." says Billy Koch of Little Red Feather. The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale will take place June 29-30 in Timonium, Maryland. Where will you be?

Trainer Keith Desormeaux knows what he is getting when he goes to the Midltantic Sale. The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale takes place June 29-30, 2020 in Timonium, Maryland. Where will you be?