Thoroughbred Times Auction News

Tattersalls October yearling sale off to strong start

2008-10-07T17:12:51Z

Share prices may have plunged in Great Britain on Monday, but 24 hours later book one of the Tattersalls Timeform Millions October yearling sale proved surprisingly buoyant. Read More......(read more)

Miss Listo tops first OBSC open session

2008-10-07T16:36:49Z

Miss Listo, a stakes-winning eight-year-old Southern Halo mare, topped the second session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. fall mixed sale on Tuesday. Read More......(read more)

Across-the-board declines at OBSC fall mixed sale

2008-10-06T18:19:53Z

With more than 100 horses withdrawn from the first session and the buy-back rate at 53.2%, economic indicators declined across the board on day one of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. fall mixed sale. Read More......(read more)

OBSC fall mixed sale begins amid economic strife

2008-10-05T11:47:52Z

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. fall mixed sale begins Monday with 1,000 horses consigned to the three-day sale, which kicks off with a consignor preferred session. Read More......(read more)

Golden Eagle Farm purchases Stormin Fever

2008-10-02T15:36:59Z

Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-producing sire Stormin Fever has been purchased by the Mabee family’s Golden Eagle Farm from Edward P. Evans and Brereton Jones and will stand the 2009 season in Ramona, California for $7,500. Read More......(read more)

Holy Bull colt tops Eastern fall yearling sale

2008-10-01T17:43:57Z

Pennsylvania homebuilder Ed Stevenson outbid perennial top buyer Jay Em Ess Stable to buy a Holy Bull colt for $320,000 on Wednesday, the final day of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale. Read More......(read more)

Pinhooker Bowling forms All In Sales

2008-10-01T17:16:57Z

When Ocala-based pinhooker Tony Bowling says he is all in for the two-year-old sales of 2009, he means it on more than one level. Read More......(read more)

Total receipts soar at Louisiana yearling sale

2008-10-01T16:26:00Z

The Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana yearling sale overcame the slumping economy to post double-digit increases in gross receipts and average, reversing a downward trend experienced in other recent yearling auctions. Read More......(read more)

Goffs Million sale concludes with declines

2008-10-01T15:32:57Z

The three-day Goffs Million yearling sale concluded Wednesday with declines in total receipts and average price.Goffs reported 592 of 655 yearlings as sold for $45,481,830 (32,353,000 euros) in total receipts, a 39.9% decline from the 2007 Goffs Million Read More......(read more)

Market malaise continues at California yearling sale

2008-09-30T20:13:58Z

A filly by champion sprinter and freshman sire Speightstown commanded a $135,000 bid to top the fourth annual Barretts/CTBA California fall selected yearling sale, which posted across-the-board declines on Tuesday in the Hinds Pavilion at Fairplex Park Read More......(read more)

Downward trends continue at Timonium

2008-09-30T17:13:01Z

A Tiznow colt sold for $170,000 to top the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale, but total sales, average price, and the buy-back rate continued to lag significantly behind previous years. Read More......(read more)

Danehill Dancer filly brings seven figures at Goffs

2008-09-30T14:05:59Z

A Danehill Dancer filly was the first yearling to reach seven figures at the Goffs Million yearling sale when bloodstock agent Demi O’Byrne went to $1,408,099 (1-million euros) to top Tuesday’s second session. Read More......(read more)

Genuine Devotion to be sold at Fasig-Tipton November

2008-09-30T13:24:59Z

James Barry's Grade 3 winner Genuine Devotion (Ire) will be offered for sale at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected fall mixed sale on November 2. Read More......(read more)

Total sales, average plummet at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic

2008-09-29T17:27:03Z

On the same day the Dow Jones industrial average dropped a record 777 points, the picture was no brighter at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale, which saw total sales drop 34.8% compared with the opening session last year. Read More......(read more)

Participants guarded entering California yearling sale

2008-09-29T16:22:01Z

Amid an unstable national economy and declining results at other North American Thoroughbred auctions, officials of the Barretts/CTBA California fall selected yearling sale remain cautiously optimistic that the state’s commercial market can weather potential Read More......(read more)