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March OBS 2-Year-Olds in training sale

Makes sense :smiley:
Thanks.

Thereā€™s a story from the Keeneland sales many decades ago wherein a farmer attending the sales thought heā€™d bought a yearling for $1800. The farmer was not prepared to pay the actual sales price of $18,000, so the yearling went back through the ring.

It may be an apocryphal story, or a composite of several tales of the same nature from the days before all buyers were required to establish their credit before being allowed to bid.

A funnier version from Britainā€™s yearling sales had a bank manager warning one of his trainer clients to exercise restraint at the upcoming auction. The trainer couldnā€™t help himself and afterwards sent a cable to the bank manager: ā€œHave bought you ten nice yearlings. Hope you will like them.ā€ According to the storyteller, the bank manager was of a sporting nature and the purchases turned out rather well for him.