It Was All A License To Steal
It Was All A License To Steal
Auction 3542 – This week’s auction saw mixed results and continues to follow the wild ride of the stock market. Some areas were up and some were down. There were only four horses that went for over a million dollars compared with 14 last week. Twenty seven senior citizens were offered but only five of the eight and up horses sold for more than a dollar. The top price was paid for hip # 37941, an 8 YO stallion named Onion Ways. Jhenry paid $12,500.00 for this grand looking old guy. Here are this week’s auction stats.
Auction Stats
Horses Entered – 578 (last week – 502) +
Horses Sold For More Than $1.00 – 188 (last week – 195) –
Horses Not Sold or RNA (Reserve Not Attained) – 91 (last week -34) +
Horses Sold For $1.00 – 139 (last week – 118) +
Two Year-olds – Entered – 147 (last week 130) +
Two Year-olds – Sold – 125 (last week – 79) +
Two year-olds – Not Sold or RNA – 22 (last week – 5) +
Total Sales – $18,148,423 (last week $38,312,763) –
Average
Leading Buyer – Computer Stable – 160 (last week – 155) +
The Millionaires:
License To Steal was the sale topper this week making consignor Lenny2, $5,200,101.00 richer. Some of the elite bad boys from DelPenn, Arse2007 hardly noticed the withdrawal from their bank account. The 4 YO, plain brown filly, has won five of her 22 starts and has run in the money 14 times. She is a stake’s winner but that was her last win and that was almost a year ago. License to Steal, hip # 132046, is a royally bred filly, by Mineshaft out of the Storm Cat mare Flanders Pride who has been a better broodmare than she ever was a racehorse. Flanders Pride, a winner of two races, is the dam of three foals to race and all three are winners, two of them stakes winners.
Reserve status went to #168979, a 3 YO dark bay or brown colt named Nationwide. He brought a bid of $1,500,001.00 and is by Bernardini out of a Kingmambo mare. Although he is still a maiden he has shown some nice early speed. Nationwide is still very green and new owner/trainer Pigeon9 will try and get him to relax and finish up better. Chilimac consigned this nice colt.
Fairhaven2 sold Ends In Ski, hip number #27050, to Kissnsocal for $1,100,001. Ends In Ski is a big, 5 YO chestnut horse by Numerous out of a Polish Numbers mare. He has won 10 of his 28 starts including the Grade II Warsaw Sprint. He also finished second in the Grade I Because I Said So Stakes. He will hopefully find that spark again before the wear and tear factor sets in.
Also selling for $1,000,001.00 was maybe the buy of the day and it was Babygirlz (a division of the Winnette group) that led him away. Dreaming Eyes is a typy, copper chestnut, 5 YO horse by Black Sam Belamy out of a Law Society mare. He has won 10 of his 35 starts and although he started life off as a sprinter he soon found himself in claiming races and could have been had for as little as $4,000 at one point. He was finally haltered last December for $15,000 by consigner Ottohaack who promptly stretched him out and the horse loved it. This solid marathoner has not finished worse than second this past year winning his last five in a row and nine of his last 11 starts. Ottohaack thought it was time to let someone else have some fun with him. Pretty darn nice!
The Auction Seen:
After being late last week I thought I ought to get there early this week and I did and of course, with not a lot to do before show time, I couldn’t stay away from the barn area. I ended up walking away with two new horses that I really didn’t need….but there is just something about a horse sale. Leaving the barn area, I returned to the sales barn and I noticed there was lots of action ring side. I quickly got a Pepsi, nodded to Roscoe who was Davesgirl and Steff who was shooting a game of pool with Jake, Danz and Dylanthoma. I made it down to the ring in plenty of time, even stopping for a short visit with Dumbblonde who was talking with Nappyroots about Antssammy and Thekids.
I finally got close enough to see what was going on over Pastyear. Rollsally and Goofball had the Travelocity gnome and were passing it amongst
I had a nice chat with Lenny who was selling a lot of horses. I was beginning to think he had a gambling problem as he is always selling something. But no, he just has very little patience and breeds a lot of horses, more than he can possibly run. I guess I will have to hit him up for a few next time the Nag stable needs some stock. Well, that’s it for this week.
Good Luck with all your auction purchases.