Fasig Tipton Selected Yearlings September 9-10 (includes a colt that is half to Tiz The Law).
Keeneland September Yearling Sale September 13-25
Both sales have new protocols and enhanced online and phone bidding. Neither sale is open to the public.
For those of us who only watch online there are many more walking videos to view than there were before the advent of COVID.
For the Chromies; there are plenty of his get at Keeneland that could be yours! You must register to bid.
Another Fasig Tipton Arrogate http://www.fasigtipton.com/2020/Selected-Yearlings-Showcase#/ecvid/videos/63273?column=sire&filter=arrogate
Nyquist has some lovelies in both sales.
Lord Nelson, though not a 'fashionable" sire, has a couple that look very nice to me.
Honor Code continues to get some nice ones and he certainly passes on the āflashā.
The Gun Runners are stunning. Also, the first California Chrome filly at Fasig -Tipton is quite nice.
Gun Runner gets some really nice ones. :yes:
The C.C. filly wasnāt my favorite. Her movement, especially from the front view, wasnāt as impressive to me as many of the others.
Of course you never can tell. She could end up being a world beater.
WOW. I want that one. As a sport horse for myself. Thatās one hell of a mature looking yearling!
Iām curious, what about Lord Nelson do you find to be unfashionable?
I was looking at his sales numbers.https://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/stallions/169500/lord-nelson/auctions/2020 Granted there arenāt many, perhaps these sales will turn them around.
I think he has some nice get.
I want THIS ONE
https://vimeo.com/453163544
and this one
https://vimeo.com/453163387
and this one possibly the most
https://vimeo.com/453163330
Lots of really, really nice onesā¦ no surpriseā¦ but I want the APs and War Fronts for eventing :lol:
Flashy hooves from Honor Code https://vimeo.com/455101204
Flash from Honor Code https://vimeo.com/450780672
http://www.fasigtipton.com/2020/Seleā¦r=honor%20code
The APs move so wellā¦Maybe there will be some really slow War Fronts that you can buy later.
I worked that sale waaaaay back when ā one of the colts in our consignment that I handled a good bit was Thirty Six Red who went on to win the Wood Memorial and was second in the Belmont and one of the Breeders Cup. He stood at Claiborne or Gainesway or one of the big time studs for awhile. He wound up in NY and died after or during his second colic surgery. He was a Seattle Slew grandson by Slew 'o Gold. It was a great experience but OMG! was I tired at the end of each day!!! I got to show the Northern Dancers and other ones of smaller stature because I am so short they looked bigger. It is grueling!
I can only imagine! I was reading about the American Pharoah yearling that sold to Whisper Hill last year for $8.2 million and the seller said the filly was shown over 100 times.
In these videos, it seems as if a handler can really have an effect on the yearlingās walk. Is that the case, and were you given instructions on how to lead them so they showed their best movement?
No, nothing really. Just told to keep them straight and move out but with them and stop and stand them up as straight as possible while the buyer looked and took notes or conferred with someone. I was not to say anything to them. I was used to my own breeding farm, another breeding/training/sales prep/layup farm and a training center where I had worked. I also stood my own Thoroughbred stallion and was a licensed trainer, exercise rider and owner at the track here, so I was used to babies and colts/stallions and could handle them. I started alot of babies, too. The ones who could show them and lead them up to the sale barn were paid more. I also walked them in the pre-dawn while their stalls were tossed and remember calling TSR, āJawsā as I was constantly putting my elbow up to his face and saying STOP or QUIT etc. because he liked to bite and he was a big boy. He sold for $95K, which was a bargain even then, but obviously paid for himself. He was a handsome colt.
I found only one photo of him online. He was a handsome horse. and a successful runner. :yes:
Thanks for answering my question. I love to read TB sales and racetrack reminiscences.
I have great memories and canāt imagine doing that now as my body has been really abused and also have psoriatic arthritis. But glad for the memories. Always happy to answer anything I can ā
I canāt do what I used to do either and my horses have been gone for so long now.
So , I reminisce.
Iād like to hear your memories, the ones that stand out when you think about your past with TB horsesā¦ I never worked on the track or with racing TBs. only for small, private breeders of TBs for sport (which I loved.and which has kept me interested in TB breeding).
So please, if you will, reminisce about your experiences with the horses, and the people (discreetly of course) that you remember most.:yes:
Our yearling sale was yesterday. Iām heading down there today, to meet up with a friend who sold her yearlings there and deliver a pony for a ride home with her. I watched one yearling sell yesterday on the online feed, until my computer froze. But I canāt imagine that it went well. Racing is in itās death throws here, I fear. Iām glad Iām out of it. 25 years ago, our track was on the borderline of whether it was going to continue to be an A circuit track, or become a bush track, and die. The second option was chosen. The industry is suffering badly here, and worse with covid. Such a shame, for the horses, and for the people who love racing. So many have left our area already for greener pastures.
The first one looks like Arrogate reincarnated as a filly.
The second one, as someone stated above, looks incredibly mature for a yearling. Almost too mature. Looks enormous. I know the handlers are chosen to be on the short side to make the yearlings look big, but my goodness! I would be concerned that there was not much more āgrowā left.
11 RNAs already.
California Chrome filly RNA at 115K.
These so far, are all New York breds that would, in a normal year be sold in a sale of their own.
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