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2 The Game, October 2008
Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
CTHS Ontario Canadian-Bred Selected Yearling Sale
year’s average of $8,258.
A dark bay colt, Who’s Big Daddy, by Where’s the Ring out of the multiple
The 2008 Canadian-Bred Selected Yearling Sale concluded its one-day session September 4, with a total of
149 yearlings selling for a gross of $5,830,500 and an average of $39,131, down 2.38 percent from last year’s average of $40,088, while buy backs were up 10 percent over last year’s total.
The top buyer for this year’s Selected Session was Danny Dion’s Bear Stables of Alberta, who purchased seven yearlings for a total of $687,000. Dion’s main trainer Reade Baker said he was pleased with the purchases. “We think we bought the cream of the crop,” said Baker, who is based at Woodbine. “We paid in the range of what we thought we would have to.”
winning Tethra mare Cosa Rara, topped the Preferred Session, being bought by local trainer Scott Fairlie for $60,000 from the consignment of Gardiner Farms Limited, Agent. While the top selling lly of Saturday’s session was a dark bay daughter of Grade 2 winner Kafwain, and is out of the With Approval mare Castle Mey. The yearling sold for $35,000 to Mike Lightner, Agent for Mary Surrency, and was consigned by Richard G. Hogan, Agent.
According to Ryan Mahan, lead auctioneer of Ryan Mahan & Associates of Kentucky, this year’s Sale focused speci cally on the quality horses and seemed to mirror the current Thoroughbred market.
A yearling by Storm Cat’s classic Irish winning son Black Minnaloushe topped the British Columbia CTHS Yearling and Mixed Sale held September 9, bringing a winning bid of $57,000 from agent Glenn Todd, the sale’s second leading buyer.
“This Sale was consistent with the results from most sales held this past year,” said Mahan. “While there was a struggle in the lower range, the upper range always seems to take care of itself. There obviously was a good market for quality horses.”
The sale-topper was from the leading consignment of agent Roxanne Sargent, who sold 10 lots for a total of $224,254 during the afternoon for an average of $22,424.
CTHS Ontario Preferred Yearling Sale Concludes
Swift Thoroughbreds, Ltd. was the sale’s leading buyer, purchasing six lots for $130,000, an average of $21,750 including the second highest priced yearling, a half-brother to multiple stakes winners Suva and La Belle Fleur by Stephanotis out of La Belle Creole for $44,000.
With Positive Numbers
Despite improvement in RNA’s, horses not sold and gross sales, the averages suffered a moderate decline from the previous year, following the recent market trend that has been experienced throughout the continent.
The 2008 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale concluded the Preferred Session by sell- ing a total of 153 yearlings for $1,309,200, up 5% from last year’s total of 151 that sold for $1,247,000. As well, this year’s average of $8,557 was up 3.6% from last
For complete sale results and statistics visit www.cthsbc.org.
Sales Recaps & Updates
Topping the Sale was a Tale of the
Cat colt, the rst foal of the winning
Unbridled mare Remsheg, that sold for
$195,000. Bred by Chiefswood Farm,
the gray colt was purchased by Winsong
Farms from Alberta and consigned by Woodlands (Gail Wood), Agent.
Arrangements are now being made for the CTHS Winter Mixed Sale, which takes place Saturday, November 29th at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion at Woodbine Racetrack, in Toronto. Entries close on October 1st. Consisting of broodmares, stallions, stallion shares, weanlings, yearlings and horses of racing age, this Sale promises to have something for everyone. Catalogues are expected out in early November.
CTHS Ontario Sale Topper Hip No. 51 sold for $195,000
Complete results of the Ontario CTHS 2008 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sales are available online at www.cthsont.com
Colt by Black Minnaloushe tops BC Yearling Sale
CTHS Alberta Yearling Sale
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The 2008 CTHS Alberta Summer Yearling Sale took place on August 25 at the Northlands AgriCom in Edmonton with 130 of the 176 yearlings being offered sold for a total of $1,221,750 (46 were RNA).
The average selling price was $9,326 down from $11,016 however 35 more yearlings were offered at this year’s sale (141 yearlings offered in 2007).
The sale topper was Hip No. 171, a gelding by Include - Mockingbird Valley which was consigned by Glen Stouffer and purchased for $57,000 by P. Burrell, agent for Bear Stables Ltd.
Other purchases of note include: Hip No. 132 a lly by Lion Heart - Got the Votes who was purchased by Al Abrahamson/G.Tracy, agent for $45,000 from
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