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There weren't any real surprises - either good or bad -- at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling sale. The results just hammered home, yet again, what we already knew. Buyers are selective and very careful about how they spend their money. The progeny from stallions' first crops, once wildly popular, are declining in their appeal as ...

It won't be the best of times, and it won't be the worst of times. It's going to be somewhere in between.   That is how I look at the 2010 yearling selling season, which kicks off with its first important auction, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling sale, July 13 and 14 in Lexington.   There has been some improvement in ...

As the president and CEO of WinStar Farm, Doug Cauthen oversees a venture that sells some of the young horses it breeds and also shops at public auction for yearlings. Asked to talk about his expectations for the upcoming yearling sales he said the following: ''Like a lot of people, Im hoping the market is better. I feel like the last three or ...

  Bill Casner and Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm enjoyed a classic double this year when homebred Super Saver scored in the Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I) and Drosselmeyer captured the Belmont Stakes (gr. I). Also enjoying a classic double was Taylor Made Sales Agency. Drosselmeyer was a graduate of Taylor Made's sales program ...

Some sale toppers become successful racehorses. Others are never heard from again even though their conformation and pedigrees suggested they could become elite athletes. The jury is still out on Cocalero, but he made his career debut May 8 and broke his maiden by 1 ¾ lengths at seven furlongs at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Last year, he was the most ...

Pinhookers' rate of return on investement (ROR) fell to a measly 30% during 2009's five major select sales of 2-year-olds in training, which were conducted by Barretts, Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, and the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. This year, the ROR for the same auctions rebounded to 70%. But that wasn't the only interesting change in pinhooking ...

Many 2-year-olds in training are still scheduled to go through the sale ring this year, but the five major select juvenile auctions ended their 2010 run in early April at Keeneland after kicking off in February with the first of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s two elite sales. In general, the results were much more encouraging than 2009's ...

The stallion Giant's Causeway is nicknamed ''The Iron Horse,'' but there's another Thoroughbred out there who deserves the nickname and he's only a 2-year-old.   Wilburn, the top-priced horse at $625,000 in the Keeneland April sale of 2-year-olds in training worked like clockwork at Keeneland and Turfway Park before the ...

  As the bloodstock adviser to wine mogul Jess Jackson, Kentucky bloodstock agent John Moynihan played a major role in the purchase of the sale-topping, $2.3 million Distorted Humor colt (now named Brock) at the Fasig-Tipton Florida select juvenile auction earlier this year. But, Moynihan said, he has gotten just as many questions and heard ...

The Thoroughbred auction business finally got what it wanted and needed with the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March select sale of 2-year-olds in training. Like  previous juvenile auctions this year, the sale showed increased strength at the top of the market, but it also delivered what the others didn't - enthusiastic buyer demand at all levels ...