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Stakes (G2) for 3-year-olds at Fair Grounds Racecourse in New Orleans.
Jana Trotter paid $90,000 for an unnamed daughter of Sporting Chance (Hip No. 48) out of the multiple stakes winning Southwestern Heat mare Bryn’s Fancy Pants. The bay filly’s second dam, the Devon Lane mare Fan’s Cat, won the 2011 Lincoln Handicap (R) for New Mexico- bred fillies and mares at Ruidoso Downs.
Molly Morris paid $50,000 for the fifth- highest Thoroughbred seller, an unnamed daughter of Sporting Chance and the stakes-
winning Sir Cherokee mare Cherry One (Hip No. 14). The bay filly is a half-sister to One
Mark, the winner of last year’s Casino at The Downs Derby (R) for New Mexico-bred
3-year-olds at Albuquerque Downs. Her second dam, the El Gran Senor mare One Accord, won three stakes in Maryland in 1996 and foaled More Accord, a stakes-
winning half-sister to Cherry One. The 226 New Mexico-bred
Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse yearlings who went through the
sales ring brought an average price of $25,157, an increase of 49 percent over the 2021
average of $16,853.
The Ruidoso Horse Sale
Pavilion also hosted the annual Ruidoso Select
Quarter Horse Yearling Sale, September 2-4.
The sale closed with increases in three categories from the 2021 sale, which itself set records. Of the 409 yearlings offered in the 2022 catalog, 360 sold for gross receipts of $26,323,500, up 11 percent over last year, when 359 of the 401 yearlings offered sold for a gross of $23,812,000. This year’s average-per-head price of $73,121 marked a 10-percent increase over the 2021 average of $66,329.
This year’s sale median was $51,500,
up seven percent over last year’s median of $48,000. The 49 yearlings not sold represented a reserve-not-achieved rate of 14 percent.
“We were so fortunate to have such tremendous horses on our grounds,” said longtime Ruidoso Sales assistant Walt Wiggins following the sale.
Last year’s Select Sale top seller, the First Moonflash colt First Texas Flash, sold for $800,000, a record price for a Quarter Horse yearling sold at auction. This year’s top seller, Goodtyme (Hip No. 276), was purchased
by the West Texas Racing Partnership for $460,000. Consigned by Bobby D. Cox, a four-time AQHA Champion Breeder, the son of 2011 World Champion Apollitical Jess is
out of the winning Ivory James mare Havanah Goodtime, an AQHA Dam of Distinction, and the sorrel colt is a half-brother to three Grade 1 winners -- 2017 AQHA Champion 3-year-old colt Duponte, and Heritage Place Futurity (G1) winners Nymeria and Sunnysyde.