Random Thief Sells! Auction 3469<\/SPAN><\/B> – This week there was a lot of action surrounding 2 YO’s and seven of the twelve\u00a0entered into the auction, sold and sold well, one of them being the top price of the sale.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trainers continued this week, to clear their barns of horses that were not living up to their promise or just not doing their job.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>No one minds feeding a horse if he is useful but once that usefulness comes into question; you might as well get rid of them now as later.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Total sales were up, the average was up and the number of horses taken home by the Computer stable was up.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Best of all Random Thief<\/B> found a home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN> Auction Stats: Horses Entered – 682\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 601) + Horses Sold For More Than $1.00 – 235\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 269) –<\/B> Horses Not Sold or RNA (Reserve Not Attained) -96\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>\u00a0<\/SPAN>(last week – 35) + Horses Sold For $1.00 – 141\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 167) – Two Year-olds – Entered – 12\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 7) + Two Year-olds – Sold – 7\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – <\/B>6) + Two year-olds – Not Sold or RNA – 5\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 1) + Total Sales – $43,332,630.00 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week- $33,906,686.00) +<\/B> Average <\/SPAN><\/B> Leading Buyer – Computer Stable – 210 horses\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 132) + Auction Seen:\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/B>Many of the big players were around this cold and wet auction day and it was fun to see the place so busy.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Luckily, someone had the fire built up and my corner was toasty warm.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Wee, Woo<\/I><\/B> and Win<\/I><\/B> were standing in front of the fire drinking hot cocoas and were doing a good job of blocking the heat.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>However, I had just come in from outside so the whole place felt really warm.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The next table over held some noisy\u00a0basketball fans, Mrshoops, Mysonjoe<\/I><\/B> and Hoopsdad<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I had to ask but much to my dismay,\u00a0they were not cheering on the Arizona Wildcats.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I saw Tsunami <\/STRONG><\/EM>who was very busy looking at the catalog with the help of Jackbauer<\/I><\/B> who was only in for a quick 24 hours.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Redhatcat<\/I><\/B> stopped by for a short visit with Kittycats<\/I><\/B> and I saw Parrothead<\/I><\/B> searching for quarters at the jukebox.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The Cheat<\/I><\/B> boys were busy but there were no Bears<\/I><\/B> this week although there were plenty of Hawkz<\/I><\/B> and Wolves<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Borderburg<\/I><\/B> was looking for a fence builder but all he found was Used<\/I><\/B> and Bung <\/I><\/B>was touting some contest he was running to Haymaker<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Many people seemed to be cleaning house to make way for the upcoming 2 YO’s.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Among those liquidating a lot of stock were Texasace, Stoners<\/I><\/B> and Lenny<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Texasace<\/I><\/B> finally got someone to buy that poor Random Thief<\/B> after about a million weeks of being entered in the auction.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Shamran5<\/I><\/B> paid $40,001.00 to rescue the unraced 4 YO colt by Var. \u00a0\u00a0<\/SPAN>The most fun of the afternoon was having a visit with Irisharse<\/I><\/B> as he always has something to say.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It was fun to catch up on what Dom and Emily were up to among other things.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Irish has a ton of stories, most are amusing, and all are instructive.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I am sure he will forget more about horses than most of us will ever know.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ah, well.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>So much for the seen and on to the millionaires. The Millionaires: Ten horses sold for a million dollars or more but six of them were stable transfers.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The sale topper was a lovely chestnut colt by Bluegrass Cat out of a Seeking The Gold mare – #155976 Seeking The Green<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 2 YO has been training forwardly on the farm and he looked as good as the $5,596,003.00 he sold for.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Korn<\/I><\/B> consigned this well-made colt and Stoner’s<\/I><\/B> signed the ticket to lead him away. Cadmus<\/SPAN><\/B>, #112968, was consigned by Unitedfarm<\/I><\/B> a division of Murray1<\/I><\/B>farm and sold for $ 5,499,999.00.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A bay, 4YO son of Rahy, he has been in the money in 11 of his 19 starts and has won six of them.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In fact, he has won three of his last six and has posted speed figures of over 100.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He comes with a lovely starter tag of $2,500 that Catahoula<\/I><\/B> (Texasace<\/I><\/B>) will certainly take advantage of. Winnett<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B> sold a nice looking colt,\u00a0<\/SPAN>hip # 147242 by Storm Cat, to fellow GSR member Freeky2<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 3 YO chestnut will hopefully improve off of his 2 YO season.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>EZ Warrior<\/B> has been sent out recently in very\u00a0small fields and has only managed to beat a total of seven in his last three races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That wasn’t good enough for Winnett<\/I><\/B> and off to the auction he went.