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2006 WTBA
Winter Mixed Sale

Yearlings, weanlings and stallion shares are up
by double digits, while figures drop for broodmares
and horses of racing age

COMPLETE RESULTS

The Washington Thoroughbred Breeders Association held their annual mixed stock sale on Sunday, December 3, 2006. Though the day was cold, the sun was a welcome relief after the storms just a few days earlier. A total of 260 horses and stallion shares were cataloged, but after the dust had settled, 33 horses and one share were withdrawn (13.1 percent), leaving 219 horses and seven shares to bid on. From that number a total of 186 horses and shares sold for a $3,663 average, up 13.8 percent from the previous year. The median was dramatically up by 46.7 percent, going from $1,500 in 2005 to $2,200 in 2006. Reserve not attained (RNAs) remained virtually even at 16 percent.

Twenty-one weanlings were sold for an average of $1,857, up five percent from the 2005 crop. Three fillies from the Foothills Farm dispersal, through agent Griffin Place LLC, topped that category when Harold J. Barroby of Surrey, British Columbia bid $7,700 for Hip 19, a daughter of Game Plan out of multiple stakes producer Cosmetic Lift; Joseph DiPietro, of Enumclaw, bought Hip 23, a daughter of Old Topper out of a half-sister to Washington champion Commercial Choice, for $5,500; and Willow Creek Farm, of Fall City, purchased a filly by Majesterian out of the stakes-placed, stakes-producing Secretariat matron Sweetbreads for $5,100.

Yearlings tend to dominate the December venue, and this year was no exception as 102 sold for a $5,348 average, up 28.2 percent from the previous year’s $4,170 average. It was a three-way tie for the sale topper in this category, from which the sale’s top priced offerings emerged. The first of the trio to hit the $26,000 mark was a Mutakddim filly consigned by Rick and Debbie Pabst’s Blue Ribbon Farm. Named Fall Forest, the daughter of stakes producer Greenmountain Girl was purchased by Victory Stables and David Cooke of Kent. Leading trainer Sharon Ross, as agent, purchased Hip 104, sired by classic sire Quiet American. Out of Jaan’s Brush, a 100 percent producing half-sister to two stakes winners, the colt was one of the offerings of agent Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC. The final yearling, Hip 133, hitting the $26,000 mark was a full sister to the 2005 winter sale topper and 2006 stakes winner Wild Cycle. The daughter of Free At Last—Northern Whirl who was purchased by Frank L. Gaunt, owner of Wild Cycle, was consigned by Griffin Place LLC, agent for Carnation Racing Stable.

Of the 64 broodmares and broodmare prospects going through the ring, 50 sold for an average of $1,576, down 20.2 percent from the $1,975 average for the older distaff set. Tops among the offerings was Hip 196, the nine-year-old mare Blue Yodel. Consigned by Ben-Ben Farms and West Hills Farm, the stakes-placed daughter of Nicholas out of stakes winner and multiple stakes producer Stray, was purchased by Jerry and Gail Schneider’s Riverbend Farm in Auburn for $12,000. In addition to her pedigree and race record, another attraction to Blue Yodel was the fact that she is carrying a foal from the final crop of four-time leading Washington sire Slewdledo. Multiple stakes producer Prado’s Joy, the 12-year-old daughter of El Prado (Ire)—Joy’s Jo Jo who was the highest selling broodmare at the 2005 Winter Sale, was repurchased by her former owners David and Elaine Parks and their Fell Hill Farm in Enumclaw. The multiple stakes producer, who was consigned by Woodstead Farm, agent, was not bred.

Top Selling Weanlings
Hip 19 f., Game Plan—Cosmetic Lift (Griffin Place LLC, agent for Foothills Farm)…Harold J. Barroby $7,700
Hip 23 f., Old Topper—Game for Anything (Griffin Place LLC, agent for Foothills Farm)…Joseph DiPietro $5,500
Hip 37 f., Majesterian—Sweetbreads (Griffin Place LLC, agent for Foothills Farm)… Willow Creek Farm $5,100

Top Selling Yearlings
Hip 100 f., Mutakddim—Greenmountain Girl (Blue Ribbon Farm)…Victory Stable and David Cooke $26,000
Hip 104 c., Quiet American—Jaan’s Brush (Halvorson Bloodstock LLC, agent)…Sharon Ross, Agent $26,000
Hip 133 f., Free At Last—Northern Whirl (Griffin Place LLC, agent for Carnation Racing Stable)…Frank L. Gaunt $26,000

Top Selling Broodmares
Hip 196 Blue Yodel, 1997, Nicholas—Stray, by Wander Kind (Slewdledo) (Ben-Ben Farm and West Hills Farm)…Riverbend Farm $12,000
Hip 240 Prado’s Joy, 1974, El Prado (Ire)—Joy’s Jo Jo, by Don Rickles (not bred) (Woodstead Farm, agent)…David and Elaine Parks $8,700

COMPLETE RESULTS

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