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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the dust had settled, 33 horses and one share were withdrawn (13.1 percent),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 years $4,170 average. It was a three-way tie
for the sale topper in this category, from which the sales top priced
offerings emerged. The first of the trio to hit the $26,000 mark was a
Mutakddim filly consigned by Rick and Debbie Pabsts 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
Jaans 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 LastNorthern 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
Schneiders 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 Prados Joy, the 12-year-old daughter
of El Prado (Ire)Joys 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 PlanCosmetic Lift (Griffin Place LLC, agent for Foothills
Farm)
Harold J. Barroby $7,700 Hip 23 f., Old TopperGame
for Anything (Griffin Place LLC, agent for Foothills Farm)
Joseph DiPietro
$5,500 Hip 37 f., MajesterianSweetbreads (Griffin Place LLC,
agent for Foothills Farm)
Willow Creek Farm $5,100
Top Selling Yearlings Hip 100
f., MutakddimGreenmountain Girl (Blue Ribbon Farm)
Victory Stable
and David Cooke $26,000 Hip 104 c., Quiet AmericanJaans
Brush (Halvorson Bloodstock LLC, agent)
Sharon Ross, Agent $26,000
Hip 133 f., Free At LastNorthern Whirl (Griffin Place LLC,
agent for Carnation Racing Stable)
Frank L. Gaunt $26,000
Top Selling Broodmares Hip 196
Blue Yodel, 1997, NicholasStray, by Wander Kind (Slewdledo) (Ben-Ben Farm
and West Hills Farm)
Riverbend Farm $12,000 Hip 240
Prados Joy, 1974, El Prado (Ire)Joys Jo Jo, by Don Rickles
(not bred) (Woodstead Farm, agent)
David and Elaine Parks $8,700
COMPLETE
RESULTS
Mixed Sale Summary and Comparison 2005
- 2006 |
|
2005 |
2006 |
|
No. Sold |
Avg. |
Gross |
No. Sold |
Avg. |
% Chg.
(Avg.) |
Gross |
Horses of Racing Age |
3 |
$5,167 |
$15,500 |
6 |
$1,433 |
-72.26% |
$8,600 |
Weanlings |
20 |
$1,660 |
$33,200 |
21 |
$1,857 |
11.88% |
$39,000 |
Yearlings |
111 |
$4,170 |
$462,850 |
102 |
$5,286 |
26.77% |
$539,200 |
Stallions |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Stallion Shares |
2 |
$1,000 |
$2,000 |
7 |
$1,357 |
35.71% |
$9,500 |
Broodmares |
61 |
$1,975 |
$120,450 |
50 |
$1,576 |
-20.20% |
$78,800 |
TOTAL |
197 |
$3,218 |
$634,000 |
186 |
$3,630 |
12.80% |
$675,100 |
Median (All) |
$1,500 |
$2,200 (46.67%)
|
Total Catalogued |
256 |
260 (1.6%) |
Outs |
18 (7.0% of total) |
34 (13.1% of
total) |
RNAs |
41 (16% of total) |
40 (16.0% of
total) |
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