Big Buyer Best Starts New Chapter As A Commercial Seller At Fasig-Tipton July Sponsored by:
Larry Best has shaken plenty of hands at Thoroughbred auctions after the hammer falls and sales tickets are signed, but there was something different about the exchange on Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale.
After years at the top of the bloodstock market as a high-dollar buyer through his OXO Equine operation, Best shook the hand of winning bidder James Bernhard for the first time as the breeder and seller of a high-dollar sale horse.
“I just congratulated him,” Best said. “Everybody congratulates me when I buy a horse, and this is the first opportunity I ve had to congratulate someone as the breeder, and now I know how it feels. We got a fair value for the horse, and you hope they do well.”
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Hip 123, an Into Mischief filly, brings $800,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton July Yearlings Sale
The summer yearling sales season kicked off Tuesday at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., with a resurgent edition of Fasig-Tipton s July Sale of selected yearlings. The sale s average and median were well-placed historically, and the highest since the benchmarks set in 2007.
“It was a strong start to the 2021 yearling sales season,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “We were very encouraged when we went to the farms to inspect yearlings by the quality of horses we were seeing, and certainly the two-year-old sales were encouraging, so we had a lot of optimism. I don t think any of us [hoped] to surpass the 2019 numbers… so to be over 2019 is very, very, very encouraging.”
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