The Texas Summer Yearling Sale was held Tuesday at Lone Star Park with the largest catalog of horses since the Texas Thoroughbred Association took over operation of the auction in 2016. This year’s yearling session had 234 head go through the ring with 182 selling for a total of $2,918,100. The average came in at $16,034 and the median was $7,500, which both declined from last year’s smaller catalog of 187. Last year’s total sales were $2,685,200 with an average of $18,910 and median of $13,000.

“We expected the average and median to slip with a bigger catalog this year, so overall we are pleased with the results,” said Foster Bridewell, sales director. “We also had two six-figure horses last year to help boost the numbers as well. We had a big crowd on hand today and the middle and higher end market were strong, and our total sales were up.”

The high seller was hip 130, a Louisiana-bred colt by young stallion Aurelius Maximus that went for $95,000. The April 17 foal sold to Terry Stephens from the consignment of Scott Mallory, agent.

Aurelius Maximus, the leading second-crop sire in the Southwest region, is represented by one of the top horses to come out of the Texas Summer Yearling Sale in recent years in Secret Faith. That 3-year-old Louisiana-bred filly, who sold two years ago for $75,000 to Jayde Gelner from the Red River Farms consignment, is now a seven-time stakes winner with earnings approaching $500,000.

The sale-topping colt this year is out of the stakes-placed Too Much Bling mare Too Much to Bear, who has produced two winners including $99,790-earner Mo Bling.

The high-selling filly was hip 188, an Arkansas-bred filly by Grade 1 winner Yaupon. She is the first foal out of Cara’s Dreamer, a multiple stakes-placed mare by The Factor who earned $259,820. The filly sold to OCL (Abul-Keer Okab) for $87,000 from the consignment of Colin Brennan Bloodstock at Highlander Training Center, agent.

Following the yearling session, a short mixed session was held, topped by the Texas-bred gelding Shanghai Bobby, a 7-year-old with earnings of more than $325,000, selling for $10,000.

Click here for hip-by-hip results, or get PDF yearling results or PDF mixed results.

On the occasion of Mary Ruyle’s retirement after 37 years with the Texas Thoroughbred Association, buyers and consigners will notice a few changes at the upcoming TTA Yearling Sale.

First and most significant, the sales pavilion has been renamed The Mary Ruyle Sales Pavilion at Lone Star Park. The TTA board of directors unanimously agreed that this was the best way to honor her years of service to the Thoroughbred industry.

With Mary’s retirement, she will no longer be at the sale, and this has necessitated the need for some changes in our office procedures. These changes are aimed at making the purchase and check out process as efficient as possible. With the number of horses at the upcoming sale we want to minimize waiting times for everyone.

The forms needed to be a buyer are now available on this website under forms or by clicking here. There you will find the buyer application form, the credit reference form and the authorized agent form if you a planning to use an agent. The forms can either be printed out or filled out online and emailed to the TTA.

We request that all buyers (even if the buyer has purchased previously from a TTA sale) check in at the office prior to making a purchase. This will allow us time to answer any questions and to be sure that we have all the paperwork we need so your purchase can be processed quickly and efficiently. It will be easiest if buyers check in upon arrival at the sale.

At this sale, as we did for the Two-Year-Old In Training sale we will have college interns helping out in various areas of the sale. They will be wearing name tags identifying them as interns. If you have the opportunity to meet them, please welcome them. Young people are the future of our industry.

The Texas Summer Yearling Sale will showcase a record number of offerings on August 26 starting at 10 a.m. Central at the Mary Ruyle Thoroughbred Sales Pavilion on the grounds of Lone Star Park near Dallas. A total of 261 yearlings have been consigned, smashing the record number since the TTA took over operation of the sale in 2016. An additional 22 horses have been entered for the mixed session for a total headcount of 283.

“We went from 207 yearlings in 2024 to 261 this year, so we are very thankful for the support shown by consignors all around the Southwest,” said Sales Director Foster Bridewell. “The mixed session is also quite strong this year with several stakes-level racehorses and excellent breeding stock available.

“Our 2023 yearling sale produced graded stakes-winning millionaire and Kentucky Derby (G1) starter Coal Battle, and I think this year’s catalog has many horses of similar quality,” Bridewell added.

All of the states in the region are well represented, topped by Louisiana-breds with a total of 115 yearlings entered. There are 63 Texas-breds, 30 Arkansas-breds and 11 Oklahoma-breds, along with yearlings bred in California, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

Among the leading Southwest sires with yearlings entered are Coal Front, Star Guitar, Competitive Edge, Creative Cause, El Deal and Aurelius Maximus. Numerous accomplished Kentucky stallions are represented, along with first-crop yearlings by Corniche, Early Voting, Mo Donegal, Cyberknife and Mandaloun.

The catalog is now online by clicking here, and streaming video and online bidding will be available on sale day. The catalog will also be available on the Equineline Sales Catalog iPad app.

Watch the 2025 Texas Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale Breeze Show on a continuous loop below. To watch individual breeze videos, view the interactive catalog.