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2000 WTBA Winter Mixed Sale
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Emerald Downs Up 5%
Auburn, WA -- The Washington Thoroughbred Breeders Association held their Winter Mixed Sale at the Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavillion at Emerald Downs on Sunday, December 3, selling 257 Thoroughbreds for $1,122,650, averaging $4,368, up 5% from last year’s auction.
Topping the 9-hour session was Kist By the Sun, a yearling filly by Son of Briartic-Orphan Kist sold by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pabst's Blue Ribbon Farm to Rodger Lam of Burnaby, British Columbia, for $40,000. The filly is by seven-time leading Washington sire out of a $631,997 stakes winner. The highest priced colt was a yearling by Basket Weave-Alota Glitter sold by Ron and Nina Hagen's El Dorado Farms to northern California trainer Jeff Bonde for $37,000. Yearlings averaged $6,121, up 10% from last year.
The sale offered weanlings, broodmares, horses of racing age and stallions as well as the popular yearlings.
| Winter Mixed
Sale Comparison 1999 - 2000 |
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| 1999 | 2000 | ||||||
| No. Sold | Avg. | Gross | No. Sold | Avg. | Gross | % Chg. | |
| Horses of Racing Age | 9 | $3,311 | $29,800 | 24 | $3,392 | $81,400 | 2% |
| Yearlings | 121 | $5,562 | $673,050 | 111 | $6,121 | $679,400 | 10% |
| Stallions | 1 | $3,000 | $3,000 | 3 | $4,467 | $13,400 | 49% |
| Stallion Shares | 8 | $925 | $7,400 | 4 | $2,125 | $8,500 | 130% |
| Weanlings | 24 | $3,225 | $77,400 | 25 | $4,508 | $112,700 | 40% |
| Broodmares | 84 | $2,765 | $232,250 | 90 | $2,525 | $227,250 | -9% |
| TOTAL | 247 | $4,141 | $1,022,900 | 257 | $4,368 | $1,122,650 | 5% |
| Median (All) | $2,800 | $2,200 | -21% | ||||
| Outs | 38 (12% of total) | 44 (13% of total) | NA | ||||
| RNAs | 33 (10% of total) | 51% (14% of total) | NA | ||||