Hip 59 sold for a record price of $350,000. Photo by Olivia Friesen/Texas Thoroughbred Association
A Kentucky-bred filly from the second crop of Grade 1 winner Yaupon sold for $350,000 on Wednesday to set an all-time record price for the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale operated by the Texas Thoroughbred Association. Held on the grounds of Lone Star Park, the auction reported 43 of 66 horses sold for a total of $1,604,500 with an average of $37,314 and a median of $21,000. Last year’s auction featured a bigger catalogue with 60 head bringing $1,689,100. This year’s average was an increase of 32.5% from last year’s $28,152 and the median increased by 16.7% from $18,000.
“It’s great to see a big price like that at our sale, and she appears to be an exceptional filly,” said Sales Director Foster Bridewell. “While that was obviously the highlight, we also had strong demand at every level and both the average and median were up, so we are very pleased with the results. This bodes well for the yearling sale this summer.”
Named Gee Money and consigned by Danny and Sabina Pish’s Texas-based 1880 Bloodstock, the sale-topping filly worked an eighth-mile in :10 2/5 on Monday to tie for the second-fastest clocking. The filly was purchased by Gee Family Partnership. She is out of the unraced Bodemeister mare Lilacs and Lilies, who has produced two winners from three starters. Lilacs and Lilies is a half sister to Ashland Stakes (G1) winner Lilacs and Lace, who is the dam of multiple Group 1 winner and Japanese champion 2-year-old filly Lucky Lilac.
The highest priced male horse was a colt from the second crop of Known Agenda who sold for $95,000 to Shane Wilson, agent for Jeff Joffrion, from the consignment of Bryan Ford Training Stable. The Kentucky-bred is out of the stakes-placed and stakes-producing Freud mare Skinner Box, and he tied with two others for the fastest time of :10 1/5 in the under tack show.
Next up on the Texas sale calendar is the Texas Summer Yearling Sale set for August 25 at Lone Star Park.
To view a PDF of the sale results, click here. To view complete results in the interactive catalog, click here.