Among the catalogued horses is Cashing Tickets (Indian Charlie), dam of GSW Leggs Galore (Bayern). The 12-year-old gray was covered by Into Mischief Mar. 2 and has been checked in foal.

Visit EquiRing.com for more information, including a preview of the catalogue and instructions on how to register as a buyer.

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EquiRing, in conjunction with Adrian Gonzalez of Checkmate Thoroughbreds, will join forces to create a sales venue for the California market. The first sale, which will be held in April, will have a focus on 2-year-olds, horses in training, and proven horses with notable updates. The sale will also be open to breeding stock.

“California is a vibrant market with great owners and breeders,” said Adrian Gonzalez. “We are hungry for a consistent and efficient way to trade horses. We have worked with EquiRing and enjoyed success with our stallion season auctions, and we look forward to building on that success with this venture.”

President of EquiRing Jamie LaMonica added, “Adrian is a rising star in the business and is knowledgeable in all aspects of the game. We could not be more delighted and enthusiastic to be working together on this project. California has some of the best racing and breeding in the world and we look forward to servicing them with our platform.”

A calendar of upcoming sales will be released soon.

To nominate a horse for the upcoming California Sale, please click here.

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The highest-priced filly in the sale was by Vronsky, out of the Cyclotron mare Eden Mirelle, was bred by Ron Rand and Courtney Rand, consigned by Harris Farms, agent, and purchased by Andy Mathis for $45,000.

Next highest price was a Sir Prancealot filly sold for $40,000 to Harris Farms. Out of the Frankel mare Frankly J'ray, she was bred by consignor Checkmate Thoroughbreds.

There were 107 yearlings and 15 horses of racing age sold, with yearlings grossing $909,100 for an average of $8,496 and median of $4,500. The horses of racing age averaged $3,533 with a median of $3,000. Compared to 2021, when 30 of 123 horses failed to meet their reserve, only 12 of 134 horses did not sell during Wednesday session.

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Racing for Harrell Ventures and trainer Todd Pletcher, Halladay also won the 2019 Tropical Park Derby and 2020 Sunshine Forever S. On the board in 12 of 17 starts, the 6-year-old won six times and earned $565,245.

“Halladay was a very talented colt,” Pletcher said. “He was precocious with elite cruising speed. He never had a bad day on the track and was a pleasure to train. He has the best qualities of his sire and broodmare sire and makes for an extremely exciting stallion prospect.”

Gonzalez said, “Halladay is a Grade I winner by War Front out of a graded stakes-winning Tapit mare. War Front is North America's leading sire by percentage of stakes winners and Grade I winners to foals. Tapit has led the general sire list three times and has been a top five sire for nine of the last 10

seasons. He is a gorgeous, well-balanced horse standing 16.1 hands. It is a rare opportunity to launch a stallion with this genetic makeup that is a Grade I winner in California, and we are thrilled to present him.”

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Halladay's introductory fee is $7,500 live foal stands and nurse guarantee, with shares available.

Campaigned by Harrell Ventures and trained by Todd Pletcher, Halladay won six races including three stakes, earning $565,245. His greatest victory occurred in the 2020 Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga, where he defeated Grade 1 winners Uni (GB), Got Stormy, Raging Bull (FR), Casa Creed, Without Parole (GB) and Valid Point while leading gate to wire, stopping the clock for one mile on turf in 1:33 1/5. In his next race, Halladay set the pace in the G1 Breeder's Cup Mile until deep stretch and was beaten only 2 ½ lengths.

“Halladay was a very talented colt,” Todd Pletcher said. “He was precocious with elite cruising speed. He never had a bad day on the track and was a pleasure to train. He has the best qualities of his sire and broodmare sire and makes for an extremely exciting stallion prospect.”

“Halladay is a Grade 1 winner by War Front out of a graded stakes winning Tapit mare,” said Gonzalez. “War Front is North America's leading sire by percentage of stakes winners and Grade 1 winners to foals. Tapit has led the general sire list three times and has been a top five sire for nine of the last 10 seasons. He is a gorgeous, well-balanced horse standing 16.1 hands. It is a rare opportunity to launch a stallion with this genetic makeup that is a Grade 1 winner in California, and we we are thrilled to present him.”

War Front is the sire of eight champions, 23 Grade 1 winners and at least 100 stakes winners. He is the leading sire in North America by percentage of stakes winners, percentage of graded stakes winners and percentage of Grade 1 stakes winners from racing age foals through 2021. In North America, War Front is the sire of the stallion The Factor (G1), as well as soon to hit market top stallion prospects Omaha Beach (G1) and Classic winner War of Will (G1).

Halladay was bred in Kentucky by Gainesway Thoroughbreds and Winchell Thoroughbreds and is out of the Tapit mare Hightap, herself a multiple graded stakes winner including the Grade 3 Dogwood at Churchill Downs and the Grade 3 Iowa Oaks.

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“The catalogue is very strong,” said Fasig-Tipton's California representative Mike Machowsky. “There are some good-pedigreed horses and some good stallions on top of that, with Kentucky-sired Cal-breds, as well as our local sires.”

Shoppers were out in force on the sales grounds Monday, according to consignor Adrian Gonzalez of Checkmate Thoroughbreds.

“We have been very busy, more than usual I would say, so we are very optimistic that hopefully some of the Keeneland momentum from last week will carry into this week,” Gonzalez said. “There were probably a lot of California connections who didn't get the horses they wanted to get at Keeneland and so now they are kind of forced to shop here if they still need something. I am hoping that's the case.”

The California sale comes just on the heels of Keeneland's marathon yearling sale and has made for long hours between Kentucky and back.

“My crew were literally taking horses to the ring at Keeneland on that last session [Friday] and got on an airplane and got here because we were shipping in horses the next day,” Gonzalez said of the turnaround time between sales. “They have not had a single day off.”

The timing of the auctions may also impact potential buyers.

“So far, it's been mostly trainers,” Gonzalez said of the make-up of shoppers on the grounds. “Very few pinhookers. I think part of the timing of this sale didn't really help us with the Florida guys. I know they were probably super busy at Keeneland and probably just got home to check on whatever they bought. And it's probably hard for them to get back on a plane and leave again. I know there are a few agents here who will probably represent some of the Florida pinhookers. Unfortunately, Eddie Woods and Becky Thomas and those people aren't here and they do usually attend our California sales.”

Checkmate Thoroughbreds will offer nine horses in the horses of all ages sale and Gonzalez said it was a welcome addition to the yearling auction.

“I am hopeful that we can sort of start a new trend here,” Gonzalez said. “It seems like in California all we really have is a mixed sale in January that has sort of turned into a place to sell your lesser quality stock that you don't want to carry on another year with. We don't really have another avenue to sell anything we are really excited about it. Fasig was game and gave us this opportunity to put some stuff that we did like into the sale and get a crack at it and just see if there is a market. I believe there is. It seems like right now one of my weanlings is probably my most popular horse in the barn, even more popular than a lot of my yearlings. I hope that translates into bidding activity, but certainly, in terms of looks, we are getting a lot of traffic on the weanlings.”

Fasig-Tipton had its first sale in California in 2019 and has struggled to gain traction in the market due to circumstances well beyond its control. Before its first 2-year-olds in training sale, it came up against safety concerns at Santa Anita and then last year it was forced to juggle its schedule in the face of the global pandemic.

Gonzalez thinks the strength of the catalogue for Tuesday's auction might help the company gain momentum going into next year's 2-year-old sale.

“I think that the catalogue is quite deep, probably deeper than any yearling catalogue I can remember for a long, long time,” Gonzalez said. “The breeders are showing up with their good stock and are offering them up for sale. For a number of years, the purses were high enough and the sales were low enough, that if anybody had something good, they didn't really want to sell it. I think now, if you bring a good one to the sale, you can get good value for it. I think that has turned into a stronger catalogue and any time there is a stronger catalogue, it forces the buyers to come out and see what's here. Hopefully this will turn the tide for Fasig out here and we can have a strong sale.”

Local connections will have plenty of incentive to buy Tuesday, according to Machowsky.

“I trained for 30 years out here, so I know how important it is to have Cal-breds in your barn to win races and create a good racing stable for yourself,” Machowsky said. “And if you want to have a nice Cal-bred, the yearling sales are where you need to buy. If you race in California and you want to race Cal-breds, you need to be here and shopping. A lot of the better Cal-breds that are going to be running next year are here on the grounds.”

Last year's California Fall Yearlings sale, held at Los Alamitos Race Course due to the pandemic, was topped by a $200,000 son of Stay Thirsty, one of three offerings to reach six figures. In all, 166 yearlings sold for $3,735,700 for an average of $22,504 and a median of $10,000.

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The $70,000 sale topper, Hip 57, was signed for by Brian Koriner, agent, for Samantha Siegel's Jay Em Ess Stable. The handsome chestnut was from the Critter Creek Farm consignment, as agent for PT Syndicate #1 LLC. Koriner was the initial trainer for Smiling Tiger's Grade 1-winning daughter Spiced Perfection. Hip 57 is the second foal out of the $172,010 stakes-placed Swiss Yodeler mare Grand Yodeler.

The 2017 sale topper, Baja Sur, also by Smiling Tiger, was named Washington's Horse of the Year in 2019.

Smiling Tiger, one of the fastest runners of his generation and the multiple Grade 1 winner was himself a 2008 WTBOA sale graduate. The stallion holds court at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif. Of the three other Smiling Tiger yearlings consigned to this year's sale, two others brought prices of $30,000 and $25,000 while the other was a $39,000 RNA.

Koriner also purchased the second highest-selling colt, Hip 77, for Siegel. Also sold by agent Critter Creek Farm, this time as agent for Premier Thoroughbreds LLC and Alan Klein, the colt hails from the first crop of triple Grade 1 winner Lord Nelson and is out of the good producing Indian Charlie matron Lottawampum.

Former Washingtonian and now successful California trainer Mark Glatt, as agent, purchased the third highest-selling colt from the same consignor as the sale topper. The Monrovia-based conditioner went to $42,000 to acquire Hip 62, a colt from the first crop of Grade 2 winner Danzing Candy and out of $137,206 stakes winner Ilikcandy, by Malibu Moon.

Two fillies brought a $30,000 bid, the Smiling Tiger—Princess Hillary filly (Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC, Agent for Sale Mahlum) who was noted above, and Hip 91. From the first crop of Grade  1 winner Cupid, by Tapit, the young distaffer is the first offspring of $109,265 earner My Palmilla, a daughter of Tribal Rule who hails from the family of Washington champions Rings a Chime and Bella Mia, all of whom were bred and offered through the WTBOA Sales program by Griffin Place LLC.

After 14 yearlings were withdrawn and 25 were RNAs, the 75 yearlings that were listed as sold averaged $12,652 with a $7,500 median. Sixteen yearlings brought a bid of $20,000 or more.

Among the 18 broodmare/broodmare prospects consigned, Hip 204, Cecileabration, a daughter of Graeme Hall who was offered bred to Smiling Tiger, was signed for by Checkmate Thoroughbreds, agent, for $12,500.  The mare also was a member of the Critter Creek Farm consignment for PT Syndicate #1 LLC.

To view the sale's hip-by-hip results, click here.

To view a statistical summary of the sale, click here.

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