Vertical Limit Leads All Sales

Vertical Limit Leads All Sales

Auction – 3511:  Well, hold on to your hats as the roller coaster ride continues.  Fifteen horses sold for more than a million with the top three horses being stable transfers.  The Dawg Pound took the honors in this category, transferring several.  Now that the wedding is over he’s back at work organizing his stables for the coming year.  There were less horses for sale, more two year olds being offered and best of all, less horses ending up in the computer pen.  That will about sum up this week’s action.  The senior citizens did well with eight horses, nine and up, selling for over a $1.00 and one even sold for $10,000.   

Auction Stats:

Horses Entered – 680   (last week – 700) –

Horses Sold For More Than $1.00 – 324   (last week – 300) +

Horses Not Sold or RNA (Reserve Not Attained) – 39   (last week – 32) +

Horses Sold For $1.00 – 138   (last week – 169) –

Two Year-olds – Entered – 28   (last week – 15) +

Two Year-olds – Sold – 25 (last week – 12) +

Two year-olds – Not Sold or RNA – 3   (last week – 3) No Change

Total Sales – $51,212,754.00 (last week- $45,121,399.00) +

Average Sale Price – $110,850.12 (Last week -$96,207.67) +

Leading Buyer – Computer Stable -179 horses   (last week – 199) –

Sale Topper – #145970 – Vertical Limit – $5,005,000.00 (last week’s top bid – $5,600,003.00) –

Action Seen:  Ok, Ok – I am not going to talk about the weather here in Kentucky as it is spring by the calendar if not by the vernal equinox.  By definition that means that the weather will be all over the place as winter tries to hang on and one can see summer in the future.  My table was waiting, the fire was lit and there was a big bouquet of red roses on it.  I thought it must be some mistake and looked around for Barndog and Ladysierra but while B’dog was here they weren’t for him and I don’t think they were left over from the wedding.  Hmmmm, I must have a secret admirer.  I wonder who it could be.  I am expecting a package from Pazjazz but it will be full of sno-globes and not roses.  Well, no matter.  I like roses and they were quite cheery – besides I received numerous compliments.  Theoldguy stopped by with Mysonjoe and Brothertom and we had a nice visit.  They asked when my mares were due to foal and I told them next week as all three are due within days of each other.  Hope I can make it here next week.  Dodoben stopped by to tell us there was a Doublbogey down by where Tees was set up.  The trouble seemed to be because Mcflurrie was making noise and the slurping noise was bothering everyone around him.  Badfish came by but thankfully didn’t stay long as Reek came along with him.  I wonder if Bad is any relation to Red and Blue?  There were the usual bunch of animals, Wolves and Bears, over by the bar hounding Squirrel and Pigeon but they all seemed to b e having a good time.

Bung was selling 2 YO’s and got some good prices for them and Irehold was seen bidding on a quite a few of the unraced young ones.  They will probably be given away after they get home to Ireland.  Not a bad idea for residencies everywhere.  Spend money instead of breeding points!  I was glad to see Novanadia and Chilcoat and we discussed some Nag business.  We really need to give some more horses away!  Speaking of nags – Realhorse came by with a Healthy but Lamepony and they were one step ahead of Reaper.  Woof was begging for a horse of his own and Planetred was seen at a far table with Heavenly.  I finally caught up with Elkchase and gave him a copy of the catalogue that he had been looking for and told him to read it through Everyday for the best Results.   That’s about it from here so let’s move on to the….

The Millionaires:  Although 15 horses sold for over a million dollars I am only going to cover the top five that I believe, were not stable transfers.  So by skipping the top 3 we start with –

Feakle – #343331 takes top honors this week among the non-transfers, selling for $3,200,001.00.  Consigned by Fitzgerald, Feakle is a ten time winner from 43 starts.  The 8 YO chestnut stallion was very rank coming into the ring and maybe that is why he hasn’t won in over a year.  On his plus side, he comes with lots of conditions.  He was a stakes winner as a 2 YO and stakes placed as a 3 YO but hasn’t shown the same brilliance lately.  New owner Ezywin is hoping to find the key to this rangy son of Rahy.

Sera, part of the Dawg Pound Group, consigned a nice looking dark bay colt by Seeking The Gold out of AP Clone by AP Indy.  Golden Clone #137108, is a winner of one from 10 starts but will need to improve to warrant the $3,001,002.000 that Boogie paid for him.  One good thing is that the horse is young, has conditions and is relatively lightly raced.  Boogie hopes to be able to work with that.

There is something about grey that is eye catching – at least as a horse color.  Wexford Nipper #138151, is no different and the handsome 3 YO grey colt drew some solid bidding.  In the end it was Brit2 winning the honors and will get to lead the horse away.  By Kitten’s Joy out of Lest We Forget (Kingmambo), Wexford Nipper has won two of his seven starts and has been in the money in four of those seven.  He was a winner last time out and has improving speed figures.  This might be the buy of the millionaires and consignor Marmac will pocket the $2,448,888.00 price tag.

E Dubai is the sire of Death Of Me #82083 a slightly built 3 YO blood bay filly out of Wylde Again (Awesome Again) and she must have been aptly named for Sdmf3 sent her to the sales ring after only eight starts.  She is still a maiden but has finished in the money in four of those starts.  On her plus side, she has been racing in the highly competitive owner restricted DelPenn races and earning checks.  That was good enough for Pm to sign the ticket for $1,652,000.

 A second maiden, Never High #144106, rounds out the top five.  Tg paid $1,203,902.00 to Hawk7 and led the 3 YO bay colt by Swain away to a new stable.  Never High has only hit the board once in six starts but is still very green and should improve.  His speed figures made a 10 point jump last time out at a longer distance so Tg is hoping the colt will continue to improve.

The Stc:  Not a lot of action among the Sim Challenge Trainers.  They bought a total of 14 horses for $33,670.00 and that averaged out to $2,405.oo per horse.  That average was pushed up by the sale of Shapes Of Play a 5 YO horse by Monolith.  Sandown consigned the lightly raced horse who has won one of seven starts.  He’s four for seven in the money though, and Stcr12 was willing to pay $13,268.00 for what could be a promising animal.  Stcvbear was the leading buyer this week taking home five for a total of $1,218.00.

That’s it for this week.  Good Luck with all your auction purchases.