Not sure if anyone will find this terribly interesting, but a full brother to world champion trotting filly Mission Brief sold this week for $800k:
http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/article.aspx?articleid=71847&zoneid=1
And here is his sale video (typically, yearling standardbreds are videoed at liberty in advance of major auctions):
http://www.bestdamnhorsevideos.com/horses/860
He’s a dang nice looking colt, and his sister is a freak. Let’s hope he shows some of her talent!
What a gorgeous colt!
Tactical Landing sold for the second highest price for a Standardbred yearling at public auction.
Detour Hanover, a full brother to Donato Hanover, sold for $825,000 in 2011 at the Harrisburg sale. Detour won 4 races earning $25,375 and a record of 1:54.2 at the Meadowlands in 2013. He stood stud at Delaware Valley University this year for a fee of $2500.
The Lexington Selected Sale is currently up 21.6% over last year and has more one session tonight. So far Muscle Hill is the leading trotting sire and Somebeachsomewhere the leading pacing sire of the sale.
There is a live stream of the sale,starting at 7pm ET, if anyone is interested. http://www.lexingtonselected.com/
It was the music. Just kidding. LOVELY horse!
that is a very nice looking colt and he moves well. Being a full sister to Mission Brief I hope he lives up to that price
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The Lexington Selected Sale is currently up 21.6% over last year and has more one session tonight. So far Muscle Hill is the leading trotting sire and Somebeachsomewhere the leading pacing sire of the sale./[/QUOTE]
Are prices just up in general this year? A friend of mine got $8K for a yearling last weekend at a sale that he was expecting $2-3K for.
Wow, he’s gorgeous.
I don’t know if there has been an official, across the board, declaration from anyone that this year overall has been an up year. I’ve seen opinions from several people that it’s just a case of smaller supply this year.
I’ve noticed that there seems to be fewer colts and geldings available this year, especially on the trotting side. So far this year I’ve followed the results of three sales and the trend of few colts was seen in all three. Two of the three sales, Morrisville and Lexington, had fewer yearlings offered this year than last year. Hoosier Classic and Harrisburg are both a few weeks away yet and they are the last of the yearling sales for this year. It will be interesting to look at the sales rosters for them and to follow the results.
Now that all of the Standardbred yearling sales are over for the year, I thought I’d recap a the two big sales, the two NY sales, and the Hoosier sale. I didn’t follow the sale in Canada that was held around the same time as the NY sales.
Morrisville and Goshen are the NY sales. Morrisville was held September 17 and Goshen September 18. This was just the second year that Goshen has been held, and Morrisville has been around since around 1989.
Morrisville sold 81 yearlings for an average price of $13,656. Last year they sold 62 yearlings for an average price of $15,540. (I couldn’t find an actual sale total for either year, just that both years the total was just under one million dollars.) It looks like Credit Winner was the top trotting sire and Artiscape was the top pacing sire this year.
Goshen sold 153 yearlings for a total of $1,860,200 and and average price of $12,158. Last year they sold 113 yearlings for a total of $1,423,800 and an average of $12,600. This year Chapter Seven was the top trotting sire, Bettor’s Delight was top pacing sire, but only had one yearling in the sale. For pacing sires with more than one sold, American Ideal was the top.
The Lexington Selected Sale was October 4-8. This year 573 yearlings were sold for a total of $32,262,000 and an average of $56,304. Muscle Hill was the top trotting sire, Somebeachsomewhere the top pacing sire. (This sale is where the yearling the OP posted about sold). Last year there were 642 yearlings sold for a total of $29,031,000 and an average of $45,220.
Hoosier was 10/28-10/29 and sold 356 yearling for a total of $5.9 million and an average of $16,630. Last year 342 yearlings sold for a total of $4.975 million and an average of $14,560.
Harrisburg was 11/7-11/9 for yearlings. 868 yearlings sold for a total of $33,511,501 and an average of $38,608. Leading trotting sire was Muscle Hill, leading pacing sire was Somebeachsomewhere. Last year 1010 yearlings were sold for a total of $31,143,500 and an average of $30,835.
Seems I was wrong about the trend of fewer trotting colts, and fewer males in general. Where I could find results broken down by gait and sex, it actually was almost a 50/50 split of males to females in each gait. Morrisville and Lexington sure did seem to have fewer males though.
The two major sales both saw fewer horses sold, but total sales and average prices were up at both.
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