Granite Rocks A Weak <\/SPAN><\/B> Auction 3882:<\/SPAN><\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Things were down this week at the sale barn as more people are having a hard time making ends meet.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Eight horses sold for more than a million dollars but of the six hundred plus horses entered this week, only two hundred sold for more than a dollar and the Computer Stable made out like a bandit and took home 193.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The senior citizens also had a rough go of it and only six of the 28 eight year-olds and older sold for more than a dollar.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The top seller of this bunch was the 8YO mare Cartay ‘Aus’<\/B> #23789, by Artax.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was a stable transfer between Shag2<\/I><\/B> and Stcshag<\/I><\/B> and it cost him $500,000.00 to get the job done.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> Auction Stats: Total Sales – $24,895,021.00 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week $43,575,145.00) Average <\/SPAN><\/B> Leading Buyer – Computer Stable -193 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week 143) \u00a0<\/SPAN> Horses Entered – 615 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 481) Horses Sold For More Than $1.00 – 211 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 207) <\/B> Horses Not Sold or RNA (Reserve Not Attained) – 38 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 36) Horses Sold For $1.00 – 173 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 95) Two Year-olds – Entered – 19 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week 10) <\/B> Two Year-olds – Sold – 18 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 10) Two year-olds – Not Sold or RNA – 1 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 0) The Millionaires: There might have been eight horses that sold for big bucks but the top price was some two million less than last week’s top price.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>They were all very close in the matter of price.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Since the top seller was a stable transfer here are the top five that weren’t.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Leading the way was #136491 Playmateofjanuary<\/B> a good looking 2 YO daughter of Jeremy out of the <\/SPAN> Royal Kitty<\/SPAN><\/B> #140575 sold for $1,755,000.00 to Noonstable.<\/I><\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 4YO bay filly is by AP Indy and out of Magic Cat Again (Cat Thief).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won one of her eight starts and may be an off track specialist.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her dam, Magic Cat Again was a winner in eight of her 33 career starts and was stakes placed.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the dam of three foals to race, two of them are winners.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Bigdog<\/I><\/B> consigned this lightly raced well-bred filly. Hihosilver<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B> may have liked the id number #128 on the Red Ransom filly Sienna<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Or maybe it was the fact that the 4YO blood bay filly is ultra consistent.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Out of a Gone West mare, from 14 starts, she has only one win to her credit\u2026 but she has gotten a check in her last six.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lethargic<\/I><\/B> sold this solid allowance filly for $1,587,966. I can’t believe this horse sold for so little!\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Consigned by Paceman2<\/I><\/B> (Theatrical), Danisha<\/B> #7671, is out of the fabulous race mare <\/SPAN> \u00a0<\/SPAN>Alex’s Review<\/B> #131443 rounds out the top five for this week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Part of the ongoing Trotter<\/I><\/B> downsizing, the 5YO bay mare is by Afleet Alex and out of the Nureyev mare, Neurotic Ruffian.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won two of her 19 starts, her last being three back, but she has been 12\/19 in the money Angellic2<\/I><\/B> paid $1,333,271.00 for this lovely lady and is hoping to return this mare to a the winner’s circle before probably sending her on to the breeding shed. The Auction Seen:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>