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Catalog For CTBA Northern California Sale Now Online

The catalog for the 2021 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Northern California Yearling And Horses Of Racing Age Sale is now online, featuring 138 entries.

The auction will take place Tuesday, Aug. 10 at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., beginning at noon, Pacific.

This year's catalog features 131 yearlings, five juveniles, and a pair of 4-year-olds. The vast majority of the catalog consists of California-breds, with additional entries born in British Columbia and Kentucky.

A $500 travel allowance will be offered by the CTBA to trainers from out of state or Southern California who travel to the sale, show proof of that travel, and make a minimum purchase of $3,500.

Stallions whose first foals are represented in this year's catalog include Conquest Farenheit, Dosificado, Funtastic, Point Piper, Prospect Park, Ransom the Moon, Smokem.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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Catalogs For Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses Of Racing Age, July Breeding Stock Sales Now Online

Catalogs for Fasig-Tipton's July Breeding Stock and July Selected Horses of Racing Age sales may now be viewed online.

Both auctions will be held on Monday, July 12 in Lexington, Ky., and precede Fasig-Tipton's July Sale of selected yearlings to be conducted the following day on Tuesday, July 13.

The July 12 sale day will begin with July Breeding Stock at 2 p.m., which includes the Far From Over/Fountain of Youth dispersal. The catalog currently features 51 initial entries and is comprised of broodmares – many of which will be sold alongside their 2021 foals at foot – and broodmare prospects. Covering sires represented are Catalina Cruiser, Catholic Boy, Connect, Country House, Dialed In, Echo Town, Far From Over, Goldencents, Gun Runner, higher Power, Honor Code, Lord Nelson, Maclean's Music, Midnight Storm, Mshawish, Mucho Macho Man, Omaha Beach, Sky Mesa, Tom's d'Etat, Vekoma, Vino Rosso, and Violence.

The catalog may be viewed here.

Once the July Breeding Stock sale has concluded, Fasig-Tipton will then immediately begin the July Selected Horses of Racing Age sale. The nation's leading source of horses of racing age, Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 163 initial entries for this year's sale.

Since first established in 2013, the auction has produced nearly 100 stakes wins, 27 percent stakes horses, and more than $51 million in earnings by its graduates. This year's catalog cover features the sale's most recent graded stakes winners in Fast Boat, winner of the 2021 Grade 2 Twin Spires Turf Sprint, and Fearless, winner of the 2021 G2 Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes. Also featured are 2020 graded stakes winners Biddy Duke, Cool Arrow, and Cross Border.

Entries may now be viewed via the sale's user-friendly enhanced online catalog, which offers pedigrees, race replays, statistical links, Ragozin “sheet” numbers, and continuously updated Daily Racing Form and Thoroughmanager past performances.

Prospective buyers may also sign up for email alerts by clicking here, or by texting FASIGHORA to 22828 to receive pedigree and race-record updates, as well as notifications of new sale entries.

“We are very excited with how these initial catalogs have come together for July Breeding Stock and Selected Horses of Racing Age,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “With these two auctions on July 12, followed by the July Sale of Selected Yearlings on July 13, we're offering buyers in every segment of the market a bonanza of mid-summer opportunities.”

The July Breeding Stock and Selected Horses of Racing Age catalogs will also be available via the equineline sales catalogue app. Print catalogs will be available on the sales grounds by July 9.

Fasig-Tipton will continue to accept approved entries for both the July Breeding Stock and July Selected Horses of Racing Age sales up until sale time.

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Foundation Byerley Turk Sire Line Drying Up In Australia And Beyond

The diluting of the Thoroughbred gene pool is not a concern restricted just to the U.S., with the foundation Byerley Turk sire line in danger of vanishing in Australia, TDN Australia/New Zealand reports.

The Byerley Turk is one of the three foundation sires of the Thoroughbred breed, to which all modern Thoroughbreds can directly trace back to through their sire lines, joined by the Godolphin Arabian and Darley Arabian. Like most horses born in the mid-1600s, formal records on the Byerley Turk can be spotty and contradictory, but history has generally settled on the horse being born in Serbia in 1682 before shipping to Turkey, England, and Ireland as a battalion horse, and eventually becoming a stallion for Capt. Robert Byerley.

From his sire line came names as big as the mighty Eclipse. The Byerley Turk line first set roots in Australia in the mid-1950s with Better Boy, 20 generations on from the taproot stallion, who was a stakes winner on the continent, then became its leading sire on four occasions.

The sire line peaked in Australia with Better Boy's son, Century, who was born in 1969 and won three races that would come to be classified as Group 1 events in the future. He was Australia's leading sire of 1978, and his runners included Rubiton, winner of the Group 1 Cox Plate in 1987.

Though Century was an abundant sire of runners, he died in 1994 without a significant son at stud. That failure to preserve the bloodline has put the Byerley Turk's presence on the continent in jeopardy, to the point where no significant commercial stallions from the line reside in Australia.

Dunaden, winner of the G1 Melbourne Cup, from a separate branch from Century, was another potential contender to pick up the baton, but he died after just four seasons at stud.

Though Australia was the focus of the piece, Suzi Prichard-Jones, author of the book Byerley: The Thoroughbred's Ticking Time Bomb, noted that the disappearance of the Byerley Turk line is a global issue. The line all but dried up in the U.S. by the 1990s, and Prichard-Jones could find only two stallions of any commercial significance residing in Europe: Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Indian Haven, who stands in Ireland, and Group 2 winner Pearl Secret, who resides in England.

Prichard-Jones warns in her book that losing diversity in the breed to the level of an entire foundation line's elimination could have long-term ramifications to the soundness of the Thoroughbred. She theorized that the sunset of the line has been expedited by breeders lacking knowledge of the line's importance to the overall makeup of the Thoroughbred breed, instead chasing the next hot sire to appeal to the auction market.

Tattersalls Ireland September Sale Moved To Newmarket For 2021

The 2021 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale is to be relocated from its base in Fairyhouse to the Tattersalls U.K.-based headquarters in Newmarket.

The sale has been relocated to Tattersalls in Newmarket owing to the continued uncertainty surrounding COVID related issues in Ireland, most notably the difficulty in guaranteeing that international buyers will be able to visit Ireland without having to undergo lengthy periods of quarantine. The three-day sale will now take place a week earlier than originally scheduled, with Part I taking place on Tuesday, Sept. 14 and Wednesday, Sept. 15, and Part II taking place on Thursday, Sept. 16, reflecting a similar move that has been made after an agreement between Tattersalls and Goffs which will see the Orby Sale also taking place at the Tattersalls Park Paddocks site on the earlier than scheduled date of Sept. 24 – 26.

Commenting on the change of location for the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Ireland CEO Simon Kerins said;

“The decision to relocate to Newmarket has not been taken lightly, especially having had to relocate the September Yearling Sale in 2020 but, given the disruption we experienced at the Derby Sale, it is now clear to us that we cannot rely on a 'bubble' which would allow overseas buyers to visit Ireland without onerous quarantine requirements. The September Yearling Sale traditionally attracts large numbers of overseas visitors and at present Britain, while also being the main source of our buyers, is considerably more accessible than Ireland.

Tattersalls is hopeful that this will be the last change to its 2021 sales calendar and have taken the decision at this early stage to provide clarity to loyal vendors prior to entries closing next week. Relocating the sale to Park Paddocks will again allow Tattersalls Ireland to achieve the constant objective of providing a vibrant market by attracting the widest and most diverse group of buyers that we possibly can.

The relocated 2020 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale returned record-breaking figures with a top lot of £325,000 and more horses selling for £150,000 or more than ever before. Vendors have already been supporting the sale this year with their better quality stock and we look forward to another successful renewal of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks in Newmarket.”

All yearlings cataloged for the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale are eligible for the €300,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes at The Curragh in September 2022. Vendors not wishing to sell yearlings at the relocated sale will be accommodated in the Tattersalls Ireland Flat Sale which takes place at Fairyhouse on Nov. 13 and 14.

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