horses of racing age

24 horses, featuring 2-year-olds and horses of racing age, have been catalogued for the OBSOnline January auction which will take place Jan. 23-30. The catalogue is currently available for viewing on the OBSOnline website. Bidding will begin Jan. 23 at noon ET and will close at noon ET Jan. 30. The OBSOnline January sale will be held in conjunction with the live January Winter Mixed Sale taking place Jan. 28. A total of 20 sale entrants participated in the optional under tack show held at OBS on Jan. 17. Consignors...

Stakes-winning Tuscan Sky (Vino Rosso) (hip 7), winner of last year's listed Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park, topped the Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale Tuesday when selling for $450,000 to West Bloodstock. The January Digital Sale, which saw an average of $28,073 and a clearance rate of 79% for its catalogue of horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares and short yearlings, closed Tuesday evening with 107 horses sold for $3,003,900. The 4-year-old Tuscan Sky, last raced in the GIII Harlan's Holiday Stakes Dec. 21, was offered as a horse of...

Through three sessions of next week's Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, over 1,300 broodmares, short yearlings, racing and stallion prospects will cross through the ring en route to new beginnings. And while it may be a fresh start for many of them, the sale marks the end of a process that dates back to September for Keeneland's new Sales Recruitment Manager Josie Mattmiller. "We consider the January sale an extension of the November sale and there are some real advantages to January because there is a lot of...

Twenty-three horses have been catalogued for the OBSOnline 2024 December auction which begins Thursday, Dec. 12 at noon Eastern time and runs through Tuesday, Dec. 17, closing at noon ET. The catalogue includes 2-year-olds in training, horses with current winning form, broodmare prospects, in-foal mares and one weanling. The OBSOnline December catalogue includes mares in foal to Girvin, Roadster, Rogueish and First Dude. Also on offer are 2-year-olds by Classic Empire, Street Sense, Neolithic, Mendelssohn, Volatile, Audible, Authentic, Vekoma, Catalina Cruiser and Khozan, 3-year-old fillies by Collected, Flameaway, and Girvin...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 670 entries for its December Digital Sale, which opened Thursday and will close in stages beginning on Tuesday, Dec. 10, the auction house said in a Thursday press release. On offer (hips 1-305) are horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, solely broodmare prospects, weanlings, and yearlings, which cuts off on Tuesday, Dec. 10, beginning at Noon ET. A selection of broodmares, (hips 306-end) will conclude Wednesday, Dec. 11, beginning at Noon ET. "This is the largest digital catalogue ever compiled worldwide," said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton director of...

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS) Ontario Digital Mixed Auction is now live and the catalog may be accessed by clicking here. Bidding on 69 lots began Thursday and runs through Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 5 p.m. ET. The catalog features weanlings and yearlings by Canadian-based stallions, horses of racing age and broodmares in and out of foal. The digital auction also includes  a season to the Speightstown stallion Big Screen, a 5% ownership interest in the sire Reload (Hard Spun) and the full ownership of the stallion Seattle Serenade...

The Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will host their 2024 Fall Mixed Sale October 12 at Horseshoe Indianapolis. The three-part sale will feature a live yearling auction, a paddock sale, and a mixed digital sale (held Nov. 14-19). The yearling sale, which will begin at 1pm at the Horseshoe Indy Receiving Barn, welcomes a catalog of 87 Indiana-bred and sired yearlings while the paddock sale spotlights horses of racing age currently stabled at Horseshoe Indy. The digital sale, held here, has a diverse catalog of weanlings, broodmares, horses of...

Owners of horses of racing age currently not nominated to the Breeders' Cup program can nominate their runners at discounted rates on or before Monday, July 15 for competition in this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships, the organization said in a press release on Thursday. All horses must be nominated, either as a foal or as a racehorse, in order to compete in any of the 14 Breeders' Cup World Championship races with annual purses and awards totaling more than $34 million. In addition, a Breeders' Cup nominated horse is...

The 12th edition of the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale kicks off Monday with a single session consisting of 117 cataloged entries set to go under the hammer beginning at 3 p.m at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, KY. And despite several impactful withdrawals over the last week, the sale was reinforced with the addition of multiple quality supplements as late as Friday and looks to provide the perfect springboard into summer racing. In fact, Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning needed just two words to describe its appeal: "Instant...

No matter the time of year or the venue, ELiTE Sales knows how to bring a good horse to auction. Names like dual champion Monomoy Girl (Tapizar), who topped the 2020 FTKNOV sale at a cool $9,500,000, or another dual champion in Tepin (Bernstein) who posted the second-highest price of the 2017 FTKNOV sale behind only Songbird (Medaglia d'Oro) at $8,000,000, have passed through their consignments in recent years. Still racing are the likes of MGSW Newgrange (Violence) along with 2023 July grads and stakes winners Power In Numbers (Girvin)...

A total of 994 horses--980 2-year-olds and 14 horses of racing age--have been catalogued for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds In Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale, to be held Wednesday through Friday, June 12-14. The under-tack show and sale itself have both been moved forward by one day to facilitate inspection and travel time for those horsepeople attending the Belmont S. at Saratoga the week prior. Hips 1-350 are set to go under the hammer during the opening session and a similar number of horses will...

The catalogue for the Fasig-Tipton May Digital sale is now online at digital.fasigtipton.com and bidding is now open for the 110 horses of all ages that are on offer. The sale will close on Tuesday, May 14, beginning at 2 p.m. ET. The catalogue includes breeding stock in addition to horses of racing age, 2-year-olds and yearlings. Among the offerings are the first mares in foal to champions Elite Power (Curlin), Forte (Violence) and Up To The Mark (Not This Time), as well as Gunite (Gun Runner) Mage (Good Magic)...