Sentences with phrase «yearling sale»
The next summer, thinking he might get $ 1 million for him, Paulson entered the colt in Keeneland's premier yearling sale, but the bidding stalled early, and Paulson bought him back for $ 300,000.
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With 50,000 thoroughbreds born each year in the U.S. — and with a yearling sales market that has fallen in recent years — buyers consider more than just a mare's genes.
When we started to get more horses sold at yearling sales, they got softer.
Cheevers bought the son of Raja Baba - Coz O'Nijinsky for $ 20,500 at Keeneland's 1975 fall yearling sales.
Not exact matches
ECLIPSE Breeding Venture is offering two naturally bred yearlings for this year's Magic Millions sale.
The Keeneland sales that year had 109 yearlings who fetched more than Royal Ski, though Cheevers was ready to go to $ 30,000 to get him.
She evaluated the sale prices of 200 yearlings and compared the outlays with the animals» on - track performance.
Potential purchasers of yearlings and even foals at public sales increasingly ask for endoscopic examinations («scoping») of the larynx and pharynx to be performed in an attempt to assess «soundness of wind».