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The catalog for the 2022 Minnesota Thoroughbred Association Yearling Sale is now online, featuring 33 entries.

The sale will take place Sunday, Aug. 21 at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn., at 6 p.m. Central, shortly following that afternoon's races.

Among the offerings are yearlings by Minnesota-based stallions Classy Gent, Eye of the Leopard, Timber Legend, and Westover Wildcat.

Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the catalog include Coal Front, Force the Pass, and Preservationist.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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Ready-made racehorses were in demand Monday at the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of All Ages sale held at the auction company's Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky. With more horses offered and sold than any of the sale's other nine editions, Monday's trade set sale records for gross and median.

Kuchar (Hip 547), a 3-year-old colt by Uncle Mo, topped sale when sold for $500,000 to Steven W. Young, agent, from the consignment of WinStar Racing, agent (video).

Placed at two, Kuchar is a two-time winner to date this year and twice stakes placed; the colt finished second in the black type American Derby at Churchill Downs on July 2 and second in the listed Oaklawn Stakes at Oaklawn Park on April 23. To date, Kuchar has a record of two wins, two seconds, and a third in six career starts with earnings of $201,750. He was campaigned through the American Derby by owners WinStar Farm and Siena Farm and trainer Rodolphe Brisset.

“Tremendous sale tonight,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “I think it was even stronger than we anticipated. We've seen great demand for active horses on the racetrack with good current form, and we saw an unbelievable depth of bidding activity tonight.”

RRR Racing went to $430,000 to secure Chilean-bred First Constitution (Hip 587), the second highest priced offering of the day (video).

WinStar Racing, agent, consigned the 5-year-old son of Constitution. A Group 1 winner at three in Chile, First Constitution is a two-stakes winner this year in North America, having captured the blacktype Jazil Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 22 and the listed Flat Out Stakes at Belmont on May 6. To date, First Constitution has won five of 12 career starts, with two seconds and three thirds and earnings of $253,019. He was campaigned in North America by Don Alberto Stable, WinStar Farm, and Twin Creek Racing Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher.

Rounding out the top five prices were:

– Diamond Hands (Hip 495), a 3-year-old daughter of Frosted purchased for $375,000 by Steven W. Young, agent, from the consignment of Denali Stud, agent. A winner at two, Diamond Hands finished second to Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Pizza Bianca in the Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico on May 20 of this year. To date, she has a record of one win, two seconds, and a third from five starts and earnings of $103,180. She has been campaigned by owners Robert Masiello and Steven Rocco and trainer Christophe Clement.

– Song Parody (Hip 609), a 2-year-old filly by Practical Joke purchased for $360,000 by Magna Certa Bloodstock from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. Song Bred was a 5 ½-length winner in her only start to date, a maiden special weight for New York-breds June 25 at Belmont, earning $41,250 for her efforts. She has been campaigned by owners Emcee Stable, Fortune Farm, and Robert Hahn and trainer Kelly Breen.

– Electability (Hip 499), a 3-year-old gelded son of Quality Road purchased for $330,000 by BBA Ireland Limited from the consignment of ELiTE, agent. A two-time winner third year, Electability was second in the listed Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on June 18 and third in the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont on May 14. To date, he has record two wins, one second, and one third from five starts with earnings of $144,100. He has been campaigned by Klaravich Stables and trainer Chad Brown.

In addition to the racehorses and breeding stock offered was a lifetime breeding right to Grade 1 winner and hot freshman sire Girvin, which sold for $150,000 to Champion Equine LLC, Catherine Hudson, agent. Winner of the G1 Haskell Invitational Stakes, Girvin is already the sire of five winners from his first crop, including Astoria Stakes winner Devious Dame and 12 ½-furlong debut maiden special weight winner Damon's Mound.

“It was very encouraging,” added Browning. “A very strong marketplace overall.”

In total, 129 horses sold for $10,814,000, up 83.1 percent over $5,905,500 grossed for 79 sold last year. (Previously a horses of racing age sale exclusively, this year's sale included eight broodmares sold for a total of $157,000.) The overall average rose 12.1 percent to $83,829 from $74,753 last year. The median rose 16 percent to $58,000 from $50,000. The RNA rate was 18.9 percent.

Full results are available online.

Sales action continues tomorrow, July 12, at 10 a.m. with The July Sale of selected yearlings. The catalog can be viewed online.

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In a bloodstock landscape built on generations-old businesses and relationships, who you know on the sale grounds can almost be as important as the horse you're selling.

So how does a new consignment stand out without that deeply-rooted brand recognition?

Erin O'Keefe pondered this question on social media ahead of Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearling Sale, where she and her partners will offer their first horse under the BTE Stables shingle.

She had just attended the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association's panel discussion on auction radiographs, and one of the major themes O'Keefe took away from the discussion was the importance of the established relationship between the buyer and seller when it comes to risk assessment.

“One of the big themes that kept coming up was when you can trust the people that are selling the horse to tell you if something on the radiograph is improving, or if the horse has always been sound…If you have a relationship where you can trust the answers, that goes a long way,” O'Keefe said.

If you've been around the barns at a major North American Thoroughbred auction, you've likely seen O'Keefe working for consignments including Darby Dan Farm and Taylor Made Sales. As a partner in Paris, Ky.-based BTE Stables, she has previously offered horses through consignor Buckland Sales, but scheduling conflicts led the operation to make its maiden voyage as a consignment at the July sale.

“We have never had our own consignment, and we haven't been selling our own horses for very long,” she continued. “I've worked for other people and have been around the sales, but nobody's come to a BTE Stables consignment before.”

Knowing the road to buyer trust is not an express lane, O'Keefe said the process starts with Hip 139, a Classic Empire colt they bought last fall as a weanling. Whether it's just one horse or a barn full of them, the formula remains the same: Be transparent, stand up for your horses, and don't play games.

“The slow way is over time: People buy the horses, and we've represented them well,” she said. “We fully stand behind any horse we bring out here. We're not trying to trick anyone, and in this circumstance, with this sale and this horse, I've posted on Facebook that if there's questions, if there's any way I can quantify that answer, I will.”

Part of that openness to the seller is being straight with them about how the horses were brought up. The BTE yearlings are raised in group turnout, and Hip 139 has a few bite marks from his rambunctious pasturemates to show for it.

A poster under the consignment's placard outside Fasig-Tipton's Barn 7 explained the physical and mental benefits of bringing up young horses in a more social setting, even if it creates a few scratches along the way. If trust is a long-term game, the superficial aspects of a yearling are very much in the short-term. It's what inside that counts.

“Please excuse any minor blemishes,” the sign read. “Colts will be colts.”

On the other side of Barn 7, Martin Keogh is the face of another consignment making its debut at the Fasig-Tipton July sale: Robert Slack's Stoneriggs Farm.

Keogh is a veteran of the consignment game, operating for years under his own banner as MJK Bloodstock. Though the Stoneriggs branding might be new to shoppers, Keogh said the association the farm has with his own personal brand of horsemanship gives the new operation a leg-up over someone that buyers might not know as well.

Ultimately, though, he said the brand is all about the horse at the end of the shank.

“I've been around here a little while and done this,” Keogh said. “I think people know me and know how I like to present horses at the sales, but I really do think it's about the horses, and then when they see the people associated with the farm, that it's not such a new thing. They know what they're dealing with, so to speak, and what to expect from their horses.”

Stoneriggs Farm brought a pair of first-crop offerings to the July sale for its debut consignment: Hip 4, a colt by Audible, and Hip 53, a filly by Vino Rosso.

The primary colors for the Stoneriggs consignment are red and white, which was a stark contrast to the blue and white he flew as MJK Bloodstock.

Colors are so important to a consignment's presence on the sale grounds. The hues of the industry's most established sellers serve as guideposts around the barns, and tell people what to expect when they walk up to fill out a card.

With that in mind, was it weird for Keogh to suddenly be donning a new team jersey for this sale?

“Not really,” he said. “That's only such a small part of it. Everyone tells me the red looks good on me.”

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Multiple Grade 3 winner Newgrange will be campaigned by Gary Hartunian's Rockingham Ranch after selling for $325,000 on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of All Ages Sale.

Kim Lloyd, who signed the ticket as agent for Hartunian, said a decision as to who would train the 3-year-old son of Violence would be made later.

Newgrange was previously trained by Bob Baffert for the partnership of SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Robert Masterson, Stonestreet Stables, Jay Schoenfarber, Waves Edge Capital, Catherine Donovan, Golconda Stable, and Siena Farm.

“We plan on taking him out to California and try the turf with him,” Lloyd said. “He's a big, good looking colt, Bob liked him, and he's been a good, sound horse, so we're looking forward to having some fun at Del Mar.”

Newgrange won each of his first three starts, first taking his juvenile debut at Del Mar by 1 1/2 lengths. He kicked off his 3-year-old campaign with a front-running score in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita Park, then he shipped to Oaklawn Park to win the G3 Southwest Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths. His most recent start came in the G2 Rebel Stakes on Feb. 26, where he finished sixth.

The colt was moved to trainer Tim Yakteen following Baffert's 90-day suspension tied to Medina Spirit's drug overage in the 2021 Kentucky Derby, and he has consistently been on the worktab at Santa Anita Park. He was pointed toward a start in the G2 Pat Day Mile on the Kentucky Derby undercard, but he ultimately did not make the gate.

Lloyd cited Newgrange's pedigree as a reason for the move to turf, noting previous successes that Rockingham Ranch has had campaigning runners by Violence on the grass.

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