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Session I Thoroughbred Yearlings - August 17
$62,000.00
Hip #46 Unnamed Filly (Attila’s Storm – Ritzy Dame)
Consigned by A & A Ranch
Purchased by Norman Allen, Joe Dee Brooks, Scott Bryant & Suzanne Kirby
$50,000.00
Hip #49 Franchise Tagged (Attila’s Storm – Streakin Excess) Consigned by A & A Ranch
Purchased by Dale A. Doby
$45,000.00
Hip #96 Unnamed Filly (Attila’s Storm – Ringback) Consigned by A & A Ranch
Purchased by Jana Trotter
$42,000.00
Hip #55 Flicka My Attila (Attila’s Storm – Sandia’s Flicka) Consigned by Sierra Blanca Equine
Purchased by J & SM Inc.
$41,000.00
Hip #88 Lariat (Southwestern Heat – Charlotte’s Drone) Consigned by Double LL Farms
Purchased by Margaret Bloss
First Requirement, Hip# 253, was the $84,000 high seller at the New Mexico Bred Sale, consigned by Double LL Farms, Agent and purchased by Javier Rodriguez.
Special Phoebe, was the sport’s Champion Aged Mare in 1995, and she produced Grade 3 winner Special Sno Flo, a half-sister to Special Dark Ivory, and stakes winner Flare For Ivory, a full brother to Special Dark Ivory.
James Gang Boss (Hip No. 248) was purchased for $68,000 by Lee Lewis and
Ted Rushing. A sorrel son of Jesse James Jr consigned by Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms, agent, of Veguita, New Mexico, the gelding
is out of Tres Of Alice, a winning daughter of Champion Tres Seis and a half-sister to 2015 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Astica and multiple graded stakes winner Bigg Daddy.
Ted Zrzavy paid $60,000 for Perrys Regard (Hip No. 182), a gray colt by Chicks Regard consigned by Double LL Farms, agent. Perrys Regard is out of Ms Perry Mason, a 17-year-old mare by Champion Mr Jess Perry, and he is
a half-brother to Perrys First Flash, the third- place finisher in the 2015 Mile High Derby at Arapahoe Park near Denver, and Masons Moon, the runner-up in last year’s South Valley Futurity at Laurel Brown Racetrack near Salt Lake City.
The sale’s top-selling Thoroughbred, an unnamed bay filly by Attila’s Storm out of the winning stakes-placed Distorted Humor mare Ritzy Dame (Hip No. 46), was purchased for $62,000 by Norman Allen, Joe Dee Brooks, Scott Bryant, and Suzanne Kirby. Consigned
by Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico, the filly is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Old Forester filly Ritzy Lass.
Another Thoroughbred yearling out of the
A & A Ranch consignment, the Attila’s Storm colt Franchise Tagged (Hip No. 49), sold for $50,000. Dale A. Doby signed the ticket for the bay colt, who is out of the stakes-placed 12-year- old winning and stakes-placed In Excess (IRE) mare Streakin Excess.
Jana Trotter of Hereford, Texas,
paid $42,000 for the sale’s third-highest Thoroughbred seller (Hip No. 96), an unnamed daughter of Attila’s Storm and the winning 11-year-old Gone Hollywood mare Ringback. The bay filly is a half-sister to 2017 New Mexico Cup Juvenile Championship (R) runner-up Hollywood Henry.
During the Thoroughbred portion of the sale (Aug. 17), 67 of the 97 Thoroughbreds consigned sold for a total of $829,000 (average per head, $12,373). This year’s total was up 31 percent over the total of $661,600 for the 2017 sale, when 81 of the 111 head consigned sold. This year’s average represented a 51-percent increase over last year’s average of $8,168, which was down 11 percent from 2016.
During the Quarter Horse portion of the sale (Aug. 17-18), 145 of the 169 yearlings consigned sold for a total of $2,407,400 (average per head, $16,603). This year’s total was up 49 percent over last year’s total of $1,615,500 for 142 yearlings sold. This year’s average was up 46 percent over the 2017 average of $11,377.
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