Few Horse Foreclosures This Week Auction 3819<\/SPAN><\/B> – After last week’s practically ‘no auction’, this week people were back, consigning almost 200 horses more than last week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It’s the New Year and time to re-evaluate all the horses in one’s possession.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Most people are probably doing spring cleaning and I expect the auction to do a brisk business over the next few months.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Anyone that is strapped for cash can breed about any kind of a 2 YO over the next month or two and it will sell well beyond it’s value as long as it is unraced.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>So breed those 2 YO’s and send them right to the sale barn.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>You will be well rewarded.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Only four horses sold for over a million dollars this week with two of them basically changing stalls.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>There were 56 senior citizens 8 YO’s and up and seventeen of them sold for more than a dollar with sprinters being in demand.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This should guarantee TOMOTM<\/I> series some good racing.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The Tempest<\/B> #58826 was the top bid earner and brought $180,001.00 from Im3xwiser<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has won 13 of 80 starts and is by Forest Wildcat out of the <\/SPAN> Auction Stats: Total Sales – $18,532,144.00 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week $23,293,349.00) Average <\/SPAN><\/B> Leading Buyer – Computer Stable -134 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week 129) \u00a0<\/SPAN> Horses Entered – 602 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 468) Horses Sold For More Than $1.00 – 214 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 155) <\/B> Horses Not Sold or RNA (Reserve Not Attained) – 119 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week -41) Horses Sold For $1.00 – 135 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 112) Two Year-olds – Entered – 0 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week 146) <\/B> Two Year-olds – Sold – 0 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 133) Two year-olds – Not Sold or RNA – 0 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 13) <\/B> The Millionaires: The top selling horse this week was a newly turned 3YO brown filly by First Samurai, # 132422 Pinifarina <\/B>consigned by Bamba<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the first foal out of Hoopstwentyone, a 0\/14 mare by Seeking The Gold.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Pinifarma showed promise right out of the gate winning her very first start and was promptly entered into The Light Locking Stakes<\/I> where she finished third out of four.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She rebounded to finish a good second last time out and Tulloch<\/I><\/B> thought enough of her to sign the ticket at $3,300,000. Echelon<\/SPAN><\/B> #122292 didn’t have any reserve next to his name and it took Bikeboy<\/I><\/B> some work before he finally out stayed everyone and brought the hammer down at $1,996,025.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 5YO dark bay horse is by Woodman out of the Sunday Silence mare, Sunday Silence.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the dam of three foals to race and all are winners.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Echelon himself has only won one race this past year but is a stakes winner and graded placed.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Deadman<\/I><\/B> consigned the good looking stallion. Neither, Deadman<\/I><\/B> or Bikeboy<\/I><\/B> wanted to pay the IRS any money in taxes so Deadman promptly outbid every one else on Last Throes<\/B> # 167174 consigned by Bikeboy.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last Throes is an aptly named horse for Deadman to own and he spent $1,800,000 to make sure he ended up in one of his stable’s stalls.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>By Monsun and out of a Glide mare, this 4 YO old has made two, far from awesome, starts on the dirt and I expect will be immediately switched to the turf in order to improve his performance. Hip #160078 Heavymetalthunder<\/B> was consigned by Jo<\/I><\/B> and after spirited bidding, Yahoo<\/I><\/B> brought the hammer down at $1,500,001.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 3 YO bay colt has a maiden win under his belt and although he took a long break from June to September for a small fracture of the splint bone, he seems to be rounding back into form finishing third last time out with a 20 point speed figure jump.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is by Touch Gold and out of the two-time winner Catbird Thunder.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has had four foals to race and all were winners including one stakes winner. The Auction Seen: I know that it is winter but winter seems to be hitting the <\/SPAN> Last week had been fun with Billgulch<\/I><\/B> and his band providing some of the holiday spirit along with 12pack<\/I><\/B> and a few others.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This week they had had a party for New Years and the sale came up only a few hours after Bugeyes<\/I><\/B> had finally shut down the karaoke machine. It took Yearoft<\/I><\/B> just about that long to organize everyone and get the mess cleared up, but many people continued parting right through Saturday’s sale.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>