372 Yearlings offered in Fasig-Tipton Texas Summer Sale

July 27, 2011 - Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 372 yearlings for its Texas Summer Yearling Sale in a continuous session, beginning at 10:00 a.m., on Tuesday, August 30. The sale will be held at Fasig-Tipton’s sales facility on the grounds of Lone Star Park, mid-way between Dallas and Fort Worth, in Grand Prairie. Immediately following the Texas Summer Yearling Sale will be Phase III of the Heiligbrodt Racing Stable Dispersal. An additional 53 Horses of Racing Age will make the sale the largest Fasig-Tipton has ever slated for one day in Texas.

“Talk about critical mass. This year’s catalogue includes 49 Texas-breds, 214 Louisiana-breds and 52 Oklahoma-breds, ” said local director of sales Tim Boyce. “Our sire power is exciting with about 20 per cent of the sires being first year sires such as Brother Derek, Divine Park, Into Mischief, Midnight Lute, Red Giant, and Tiz Wonderful. All had horses sell for $ 100,000 or more at the recently concluded Fasig-Tipton Summer Select Sale in Kentucky. “

Some high-profile proven stallions such as Exchange Rate, Flatter, Latent Heat, Lemon Drop Kid, Lion Heart, Smoke Glacken, Speightstown, Stormy Atlantic, Successful Appeal, Tale of the Cat and Yes Its True will augment the Southwest contingent of sires represented with Louisiana’s new freshman sire, Private Vow and Texas’s proven leader Valid Expectations.

“With the sale being on Tuesday, it will give buyers an extra day of looking,” added director Boyce “Our consignors see the Heiligbrodt horses of racing age as a new dimension to the day, which they hope will encourage some new faces on the sales grounds. The same format worked well at our recent Kentucky Select Sale and should feed the energy here as well. If you plan to race in the southwest, you need to be at this sale.”

Catalogues can be accessed on line and are available from all Fasig-Tipton offices. The Sunday before the sale, on August 28 at 10:00 a.m., there will be a buying and selling seminar organized by the Texas Thoroughbred Association (mary@texasthoroughbred.com).

For further information:
Tim Boyce
(972) 262-0000