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The 2023 Minnesota Thoroughbred Association Yearling Sale closed with declines in gross and average sale price, but an increased median, led by a $49,000 Maximus Mischief colt.

Held on Sun, Aug. 27, the auction saw 31 yearlings change hands for revenues of $301,000, which marked a 21 percent decrease from last year's sale when 25 horses brought $385,600.

All but two of the offerings that sold were Minnesota-breds, which traded for an average sale price of $13,477, down 12 percent from $15,424. However, the median sale price for Minnesota-breds rose 16 percent to $7,000 from $6,000.

John Mentz purchased the sale-topper, Hip 31, a colt by Maximus Mischief, for $49,000.

The bay colt is out of the winning Added Edge mare Smarty Prance, who is the dam of two winners from four foals to race. He hails from the family of Grade 1 winners Circle of Life and Circular Quay, along with Minnesota champion Ice Rocket.

Richard Bremer and Cheryl Sprick consigned the sale-topper.

Dove Hill Farms finished the sale as the leading consignor by both number sold and gross revenues, with five horses sold for a total of $72,000. The most expensive offering of the bunch was Hip 32, a Tapiture filly who sold to Xtreme Racing Stables for $35,000.

Mentz was the sale's leading buyer by gross, with two purchases totaling $57,500.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 392 yearlings for its Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale, to be held Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 2 and 3, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.

Hips 1-124 will be offered during the Monday session, which will begin at 3 p.m.

Hips 125 through 392 will be offered during the Tuesday session, which will begin at 11 a.m.

“This year's catalog features nearly 400 yearlings representing a wide variety of national and regional sires and state-bred programs,” said Midlantic director of sales Paget Bennett. “Each year, the Midlantic Fall Yearling sale attracts new buyers based on recent graduate successes, which includes Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes winner Leave No Trace among more than 200 stakes wins and placings in 2022 and 2023. This is a sale not to be missed.”

The catalog may now be viewed online and will also be available via the equineline sales catalogue app. Print catalogs will be available by Sept. 5.

Phone bidding and online bidding services will also be available.

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Case Clay Thoroughbred Management will consign Puca, who is carrying a full sibling to 2023 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve winner Mage, and Grade 1 winner and millionaire Dalika (GER), in foal to Horse of the Year Flightline for her first offspring, in a two-mare consignment at Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale on Wednesday, Nov. 8.

“It's an honor to bring Puca and Dalika to the market and to be associated with such quality mares and quality pregnancies,” said Clay. “I am associated with these two particular mares already, so it's a natural extension of my business in an area in which I have been lucky enough to have experience in selling top mares. I'm looking forward to showing them to potential buyers in November.”

Puca is an 11-year-old, stakes-winning daughter of Big Brown. Out of the stakes-placed Silver Ghost mare Boat's Ghost, she is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and millionaire Finnegans Wake.

Mage, who also was second in the Grade 1 TVG.com Haskell and G1 Curlin Florida Derby and third in the Preakness, is to make his next start in the $1.25 million G1 Travers to be run Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.

The Kentucky Derby winner is the second foal out of Puca. She also produced stakes-placed winner Gunning as well as current 2-year-old Dornoch, who is entered in the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

Dalika, who is carrying a foal from the first crop of Flightline, set two course records, in the 1 1/8-mile G1 Beverly D. at Churchill Downs in 2022 and in the 1 mile, 70 yard-One Dreamer Stakes at Kentucky Downs in 2020. She won races from 5 1/2 to 11 furlongs; captured seven stakes, including the 2022 G3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf and G3 Cardinal at Churchill along with the 2021 G3 Robert G. Dick Memorial at Delaware Park; and earned nearly $1.5 million while competing in France, Germany and the U.S.

The daughter of Pastorius, a Group 1 winner in his native Germany, is out of Drawn To Run, an Irish-bred winner in Germany who is by Hurricane Run (IRE).

“Keeneland is excited that Case has chosen us to offer these two exceptional broodmares in Book 1 of the November Breeding Stock Sale – and mark the debut of Case Clay Thoroughbred Management,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “While at Three Chimneys Farm, when it was owned by his family, Case oversaw the sale of a large number of million-dollar-plus broodmares over many years, including the great Take Charge Lady here at Keeneland in 2004. Along with this experience at the top end, he has an extraordinary amount of connections and relationships with domestic and international buyers.”

The November Breeding Stock Sale catalog is scheduled to be posted online Tuesday, Oct. 3.

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Summer means an increased focus on 2-year-olds, most notably at some of the country's most prominent meets.

Each week, we'll look at a race of interest to those looking for horse racing's next rising stars.

In this episode, Emily White examines Friday's fourth race at Del Mar, a six-and-a-half furlong contest on the main track.

It's a field full of stars at the sales – none of the five that went to auction sold for less than $100,000 – but it also features a homebred for Don Alberto Stable that's the first foal to race for dual champion Unique Bella.

Watch this week's 2-Year-Old Spotlight video below:

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