WhoooWeee hip 37 sold for $2.7M
Sold to Winchell Thoroughbreds
A few people really wanted hip #37! 2.6M Hammer. ETA (or 2.7M?)
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Hip 42 is one I really liked. Hammer at $400k went to Repole
Hip 34 (first Flightline in the sale) went for $1.1M to West Point TB
Hip 36 (Good Magic-Alpha Zulu) $1.6M to Hoolie Racing
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So many lovelies, as always. I get a kick when the “lower priced” yearlings in the sale go on to good racing careers.
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The ones that usually catch my eye are those that tend to end up on “lower priced” side of things.
It may be because I look at the photos & walk videos before even looking at the pedigree, so often times I don’t even know what they’re bred on, whereas many actually buyers look at pedigree first???
It’s still fun to make picks & see where they end up.
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Hip 66 was a nice looking colt by Not This Time, out of Classic Strike. $1.4M to KJell Anderson
Repole is scooping up quite a lot so far.
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#76 was a stunner.
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Hip 109 closes day one out, going for $1m
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Book 2 is about to begin 
Anyone want to take a guess on which will be the highest seller today?
There’s plenty of good ones coming up, including the following.
STG 1/2 sister. Hip 209 $1.025M to Repole
Muth’s brother. Hip 117 went for $1M to Grandview Equine.
Filly out of SheDaresThe Devil by Gun Runner. Hip 200. $1.475M Erdenheim Farm
Colt out of I’m A Chatterbox by Into Mischief. Hip163
Hammer at $2.6M to Spendthrift
Hip 130 Gun Runner/Justly (Justify/Take Charge Brandi) filly went for $875k.
Hip 165 Into Mischief/Mopotism RNA at $3.9M 
Hip 175 hammer at $2.6M to Boyd Racing
Hip 218 Into Mischief/Stellar Sound $4.1M to Coolmore & White Birch
I was sort of vaguely aware that Bobby Flay was involved in owning race horses, but I didn’t know he also bred them.
So how does it work at the barns? A potential buyer is interested in a horse, and he/she is taken out and shown? Standing still or walked? See quote about Hip #13 (went for 1.3 million):
“We knew she was going to be a special filly tonight,” said Hunter Simms, partner and director of bloodstock services at Warrendale. “She saw a lot of action from all the right people. She showed over 240 times over the last four days, so we knew she was well received.”
So this filly was pulled out of her stall an average of 60 times per day?
And how does one qualify to be someone who asks to see the horse? Are there credentials?
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Flay has been buying well bred fillies at the sales for many years. He races them and then retires them to breed.
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@LaurieB can answer that.
There sure were a lot of gorgeous horses.
3.9M RNA was the next to last of Mopotisms’s produce. She coliced and died in July and left a weanling by Flightline.
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A potential buyer will have looked at the catalog ahead of time and know which horses they are interested in. You go to the consignor’s barn and tell them which horses you want to see. You are given a “show ring” (a flat peastone surface in front of the barn) and the horses are brought out to you one by one. First they stand still. Then they walk (sometimes numerous times.) Typically buyers watch the horses both from the side and also going down-and-back.
A filly that’s showing 60 times a day probably doesn’t spend much time in her stall. 
She will, however, be given breaks (in her stall) to let her rest and keep her fresh. With very popular horses, the consignor will sometimes ask if several people mind looking at her at the same time–which is easy to do and few people (I could name them, LOL) will say no. Some of those shows will also be shorter second and third looks.
In order to bid on a horse, you have to have established credit with the sales company ahead of time. But to look at a horse, all you have to do is ask. Aside from the famous buyers, the consignors/sellers don’t know who is a potential buyer and who isn’t. So they do their best to show the horses to everyone who is interested.
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Thank you for that explanation.
And I guess you can get an idea of the horse’s temperament when he/she is being pulled out repeatedly.
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Yes, you often do. Buyers will sometimes make a point of showing up when the barns open to see how the horse behaves when it’s “fresh”–or coming at the end of the day to see how it behaves after a long day of shows.
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