The Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie have announced that the Texas Summer Yearling Sale will be held Monday, August 30, at the Dallas-area track. Entries are now being accepted with a deadline of June 21. Click here for the entry form.
Despite the current health pandemic, last year’s Texas
Summer Yearling Sale resulted in an increase in gross sale receipts of more
than 166% with approximately twice the number of horses consigned compared to
the previous year. Even with the larger catalog, last year’s sale posted an
increase in average and median as buyers reacted positively to rising purses
and breeders awards in Texas thanks to new legislation.
“Last year’s sale showed how strong the Southwest market
is with Texas on the rise and Oklahoma and Louisiana continuing to have solid
racing and breeding programs,” said Tim Boyce, sales director. “We fully expect
that upward trend to continue with our upcoming 2-year-olds in training sale
followed by this yearling sale.”
Last year the TTA introduced a consignor rebate program
that rebates up to 50% of the consignment fee using funding from the passage of
HB 2463, and that offer will again be in effect for this sale.
As previously announced, the TTA and Lone Star
Park will hold the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale on April 7. The breeze
show will be held April 5.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park at
Grand Prairie have announced that the 2021 Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale
will be held on Wednesday, April 7, at the Dallas-area track. The breeze show
will be held Monday, April 5.
The sale will be held about two weeks before Lone Star Park kicks off its expanded Thoroughbred meet with 48 days of racing starting on April 22. The track has announced an enhanced stakes schedule worth more than $2.2 million and the revival of Lone Star Million Day. As usual, the Texas Thoroughbred Sales Futurity, for TTA Sales graduates and those made eligible through a consignor berth, will be held at Lone Star with two divisions at $100,000-estimated apiece.
“With daily purses at Lone Star expected to be around $250,000 and maiden races at $36,000, this sale will offer buyers the chance to get an almost immediate return on their investment,” said Tim Boyce, sales director. “In addition to the Sales Futurity in July, Lone Star will be running two divisions of the Clarence Scharbauer Jr. Texas Stallion Stakes for 2-year-olds in June, so that’s another opportunity for Texas-sired horses.”
The entry deadline for the 2-year-old sale is January 15, 2021. Click here to download the consignment form.
The TTA would like to thank all the buyers and consignors at the Texas Winter Mixed Sale on December 6 at Lone Star Park.
Click here to download a PDF of the results. Or click here to view the sortable results.
Pictured is the sale-topper, a Texas-bred weanling colt by Valor Farm stallion Bradester. He sold for $16,000 from Benchmark Training Center, Inc., agent, to Highlander Training Center. Good luck to all with their purchases!
Registration is now open for those interested in placing bids online for the Texas Winter Mixed Sale on Sunday, December 6, at Lone Star Park. The auction will feature a catalog of 135 weanlings, yearlings, horses of racing age and broodmares. The sale begins at 1 p.m. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
This auction will feature an upgraded online bidding experience compared to the Texas Summer Yearling Sale, which was the first Texas sale to offer online bidding. Live video will be available both for online bidders and those just wanting to watch the sale. The online catalog features photos and videos of many of the horses in the sale. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CATALOG.
Bidders may also attend the sale in-person at the Texas Thoroughbred Sale Pavilion at Lone Star. Masks will be required, and Lone Star Park’s COVID-19 protocols will be in effect.
“This is the first Texas Winter Mixed Sale in nearly 10 years, and it offers some high-quality bloodstock and future racing prospects,” said Tim Boyce, sales director. “We were quite pleased with how many entries we received, and we’ve had interest from buyers around the region and around the country due to the rising purses and breeding incentives in Texas and the overall health of the industry in the Southwest region.”
For more information about online bidding, including the credit reference form required, click here.
The first standalone Texas Winter Mixed Sale in nearly a decade has attracted more than 125 consignments. To view the online catalog, CLICK HERE.
The auction, held jointly by the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, will be held on Sunday, December 6, at 1 p.m. Central at the Texas Thoroughbred Sale Pavilion on the backside of the Dallas-area track.
Although there have been mixed sessions as part of the
Texas Summer Yearling Sale in recent years, this will mark the first Texas
Winter Mixed Sale since 2011.
“Because of increased purses and breeding incentives in
Texas, and the overall strength of racing in the Southwest region, we saw the
need to bring this sale back,” said Tim Boyce, sales director. “Even though we
knew there would be demand from consignors and buyers, we didn’t anticipate
this many entries or the interest we’ve already seen from potential buyers.
That’s a good sign for how things are growing in this region.”
The sale will kick off with broodmares followed by weanlings, yearlings and horses of racing age. The Texas Summer Yearling Sale in August was the first Texas sale with live online bidding, and that option will again be available for this sale along with online video. More details about online bidding will be posted soon.
The Texas Summer Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale,
held jointly by the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park, posted a
big gain in gross sales on Monday. The average and median also increased
compared to last year, even with a much larger catalog on tap this year. The
sale was held in the sales pavilion at Lone Star with appropriate safety
measures in place, and online bidding was offered for the first time at the
Texas sale.
Hip 218 – Photo by Denis Blake/Texas Thoroughbred Association
For the yearling session, 106 head from 137 offered sold
for a total of $1,347,700, compared to 42 of 65 sold last year for $506,000.
That represents a 166.34% increase in gross sales. The average this year was
$12,714, up 5.5% from last year’s $12,048, and the median rose to $5,100 from
$5,000 for an increase of 2%. The buyback rate this year was 22.6% compared to
35.3% last year.
The format was altered this year to include a horses of
racing age session, in part because of the cancellation of the 2-year-olds in
training sale earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The session had 15
horses sell from 18 offered for a total of $162,500 and an average of $10,833.
Last year’s summer auction had a traditional mixed
session with 12 sold for $31,100.
“The results of this sale were strong on their own, and
especially against the backdrop of a health pandemic,” said Tim Boyce, sales
director. “With twice as many yearlings as last year, the fact that our average
and median still went up shows that there’s a lot of demand in this region for
quality stock. We were pleased with the response to online bidding as well.”
Al Pike, agent, bought the three highest priced horses,
topped by hip 218, a Louisiana-bred colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner
Klimt. Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent for Coteau Grove Farms LLC, the January
foal is the first out of the unraced Ghostzapper mare Ms. Character and sold
for $120,000.
Pike also signed the ticket on the hip 203, who sold for
$100,000 as the top filly and second-highest overall. Consigned by H & E
Ranch, Roger Daly, agent, the Kentucky-bred daughter is also from the first
crop of a Grade 1 winner in Classic Empire. She is out of Just Like Pop, by
Unbridled’s Song, whose only foal to race is a multiple winner.
Pike also got the third-highest price from H & E
Ranch and Daly with hip 243, a Kentucky-bred Lemon Drop Kid colt for $70,000.
From the horses of racing age session, the top price was
hip 16, an unraced 2-year-old filly by Twirling Candy. Martin Racing Stable LLC
bought her for $27,000 from Eaton Sales, agent.
Eaton Sales, agent, participating in the Texas sale for
the first time, topped the list of consignors with gross sales of $454,800 from
28 sold. Roger Daly, agent, had the top average with eight sold for an average
of $31,800.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association is pleased to announce that registration is now open for online bidding on the August 24 Texas Summer Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale at Lone Star Park. Buyers must register in advance and submit a credit reference form in order to bid online. Registrations are now being accepted. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND BID.
“We are very excited to offer the option to bid online, and we encourage all interested bidders to register well in advance of the sale,” said Tim Boyce, sales director. “We are also taking all the recommended safety precautions to allow buyers to attend the sale in person at the sales pavilion at Lone Star Park.”
The TTA also announced the return of the Texas Winter Mixed Sale, which will be held December 6, 2020, at Lone Star. This will be the first standalone mixed sale to be held in several years and now gives the TTA three annual auctions as this sale joins the 2-year-old sale in the spring and the yearling sale in the summer.
“Despite the challenges during this health pandemic, Lone Star Park just completed a successful Thoroughbred meet and this upcoming sale attracted double the number of yearlings compared to last year, so we think this is the right time to bring back the Texas Winter Mixed Sale,” said Mary Ruyle, executive director of the TTA. “Purses and breeding incentives in Texas have been boosted significantly thanks to the passage of HB 2463, so we expect there to be a lot of demand for broodmares and racing stock.”
The entry deadline for the Texas Winter Mixed Sale is October 2, and consignment contracts are available by clicking here.
A
catalog of 175 head is now online for the Texas Summer Yearling and Horses of
Racing Age Sale set for August 24 at 12 noon CDT at Lone Star Park at Grand
Prairie. Sponsored by the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park, the
sale will welcome bidders on site with enhanced safety protocols and for the
first time will also offer live online bidding for those who cannot attend in
person. Online Bidders must be registered at one week before the sale, no later
than 12 noon on August 17.
“We
had to cancel our 2-year-old sale due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve been
working since then to ensure we are able to conduct this sale because of its importance
to the region,” said Mary Ruyle, executive director of the TTA. “We normally
wouldn’t have a horses of racing age session at this sale, but we are happy to
offer that this year to fill the needs of consignors and buyers. The HORA
section is quite impressive.”
Ruyle
credited higher purses in Texas and a new consignor incentive program as two of
the reasons that this year’s sale has twice the number of yearlings as last
year.
“In
addition to boosting purses in Texas, the passage of HB 2463 allows the horse
industry to create new ways to grow, so we were able to provide consignors with
a rebate of up to half the consignment fee,” she said. “We saw a great response
to that incentive, which resulted in more consignors bringing their horses to
sell in Texas.”
The
sale will utilize a live online bidding system along with improved online
video.
“We
made an investment in technology to allow buyers to bid from anywhere,” said
Tim Boyce, sales director. “Starting in early August we will allow online
bidders to register in advance, so we encourage anyone who is interested to do that
on our website.”
The
sale will kick off with a horses of racing age session including 2-year-olds in
training by top sires such as Too Much Bling, Texas Red, Astrology and Twirling
Candy. Among the older horses on offer are Herbs Love, a daughter of Etesaal
who in her most recent start won the $75,000 San Jacinto Turf Stakes at Lone
Star Park.
The yearling session will include 151 head by leading regional sires such as Too Much Bling, Star Guitar, Flat Out, Court Vision and My Golden Song. Top national sires including Tonalist, Sky Mesa, Bayern, Honor Code and California Chrome are also represented.
The Texas Thoroughbred Association is pleased to announce a consignor incentive program for the August 24 Texas Summer Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale at Lone Star Park. Thanks to the passage of H.B. 2463, which injects up to $25 million annually into the Texas horse industry, funds are available to rebate up to half of the $400 consignment fee for all horses passing through the ring, including horses not bred in Texas. Entries are due by June 15.
A similar incentive was
previously announced for the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. That auction
was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and all consignment fees were
refunded. Instead of a live auction, horses entered in that sale are currently being
showcased on the TTA Sales website with potential buyers being able to connect directly
with consignors to negotiate private sales with no additional fees.
The Texas Summer Yearling Sale
has traditionally included a mixed session for broodmares and weanlings, but
for this year’s auction only, that format will change to a horses of racing age
session focused on 2-year-olds. If there is sufficient demand, an under tack
show may be added prior to the sale.
“We know that these are challenging times for horsemen, so in order to adapt to the current situation we rolled over the consignment incentive to this sale and changed the format to give consignors an option for selling 2-year-olds and other horses of racing age,” said Mary Ruyle, executive director of the TTA. “We had a record number of entries for the 2-year-old sale, so we expect to have strong participation in this sale as well. We are truly thankful for all the consignors and buyers that have helped make this such an important sale for the Southwest region.”
The
Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park have announced that the
upcoming Texas Summer Yearling Sale on August 24 will now include a horses of
racing age session in lieu of having broodmares and weanlings. For this year
only, the mixed session will only be open to 2-year-olds and older horses of
racing age. The change is due to the cancellation of the Texas 2-Year-Olds in
Training Sale, which could not be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After talking to consignors, we found there was strong demand for a horses of racing age session, especially for 2-year-olds,” said Tim Boyce, sales director. “We realize these are unique times for consignors and buyers, so we are working to support them by being flexible with the format of this sale. For any 2-year-olds who have published works, we will include those on the sale website along with any videos that consignors wish to provide. And if we have enough demand for an under tack show, we will work to make that happen prior to the sale.”