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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:25 pm
by LB
magic code wrote:Looks like an absolute bloodbath. High is $85k for #152. Only counted 8 horses over $40k.
This sale has never been the strongest of the season--which is probably why F-T cancelled it before bowing to seller demand and reinstating it.
As HYP pointed out, the average is down only slightly and the median is up from last year--which goes against the trend of most recent sales. Hardly a bloodbath.
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:30 pm
by Sysonby
This has always been a cull sale with the occasional diamonds in the rough.
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:18 am
by madelyn
Quite a lot of very good horses have come out of the F-T October sale. I don't think of it as a cull sale, like the Jan and Feb sales are. Certainly, there are some awfully good quality horses in the October sale that aren't really "culls"...
Typically there are some RNA's from September Keeneland in this October sale - giving the seller another chance to move the horse at a more realistic price. But for the most part, I think, this sale has become THE sale for yearlings from less expensive or less fashionable stallions. Selling at Keeneland on a stud fee below $15K is almost a shutout.
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:11 pm
by dray33
Anyone see hip 911? Pure Prize colt?
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:08 pm
by winds
Gotta be someplace for us poor breeders to sell, some of us can't afford the really expensive stallions but know how to breed a racehorse.
winds
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:47 am
by zinn21
The sale rebounded. Buy backs way down..
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:11 am
by madelyn
It is quite interesting how things can spin out. I think the buy backs were down because there were So Many Horses without reserves. You could have filled a racing stable with yearlings under $3K. Yet the median was up a bit..
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:57 am
by Fireslam
Funny how an average up $430 and a median up $500 can be called a rebound.