August 24, 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
