You do have to get used to all the abbreviations for the different sales. This was really like day 13 of the Keeneland sale. The average was $24,000 and the median was $15,000. The topper was a $160,000 son of Cupid. The buyback+withdrawal rate was still 40%.
I have 10 horses I am interested in on the second day, let’s see how many get to the ring.
Only 1 of the 50 top partnerships participated. You have to love the folks at Pewter Stables, they just keep plugging away with cheaper horses. They bought 3 for a total of $55,000. One was a Violence I will think about.
The Sackatoga guys bought two nice NY-breds. They bought a Fast Anna for $92,000, and a Central Banker for $70,000. Both had solid stamina oriented female families. I really like Jack Knowlton’s taste in horses.
Buying A Race Horse 