The Texas Thoroughbred Affiliation will host its annual summer time yearling sale Aug. 26 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie. The sale begins at 10 a.m. CT.
This 12 months’s catalog contains 207 yearlings, accessible for inspection Aug. 24-25, that embody 10 horses in a Three Feathers Farm dispersal together with 48 Texas-breds, 91 Louisiana-breds, 32 Arkansas-breds, and 18 Oklahoma-breds.
A few of the gross sales notable entries are:Â
- Hip 7, a colt by El Deal out of Flashy Prize, making the colt a half brother to a number of grade 1-placed stakes winner and millionaire Free Like a Lady . Paul Pruett’s Oakridge Farm consigns the colt.Â
- Hip 13 is a colt by freshman sire Unstable  out of the Malibu Moon mare Humorous Moon , who gained the 2009 Teaching Membership American Oaks (G1) and earned $530,900. The colt is consigned by Channon Farm.
- Hip 181 is a filly Aurelius Maximus , who is also consigned by Channon Farm. The filly is out of the stakes-placed Metropolis Zip winner Metropolis Gone Wild. Aurelius Maximus is the sire of Secret Religion , who offered for $75,000 throughout the 2023 TTA Summer season Yearling Sale and has gained two black-type stakes this 12 months.
“We’ve got a well-balanced catalog this 12 months,” stated gross sales director Foster Bridewell. “A runner can come from anyplace, and potential consumers have a wide range of stallions and mares who’re high quality producers within the upcoming sale.”
Bridewell credit the Texas TTA board of administrators for supporting this sale by creating stakes alternatives on the market graduates. These races embody the $150,000 Texas Thoroughbred Affiliation Futurity, with divisions for fillies and for colts and geldings; and for the previous two years, 3-year-old sale graduates have been eligible to compete within the $100,000 TTA Derby or Oaks. Secret Religion gained the TTA Futurity July 13 and banked $90,000 for the victory.
Jeff Hooper, chairman and CEO at Highlander Coaching Heart in Sulphur Springs, Texas, stated the TTA yearling sale has turn out to be a constant supply of profitable racehorses and pinhook prospects. The farm has 23 yearlings entered on this 12 months’s sale.
“We’ve got offered yearlings from $15,000 to $100,000 and can have a number of within the upcoming sale by confirmed stallions, together with Mr Speaker and Aggressive Edge,” Hooper stated. “The TTA sale continues to supply high quality yearlings that go on to prominence in Texas and different areas. Plus, pinhookers have taken discover of the Texas sale and have accomplished properly right here. Graduates have some glorious stakes alternatives right here in Texas paired with many restricted stakes choices in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.”
Highlander offered this sale’s prime vendor in 2022, a $100,000 Too A lot Bling filly named Too A lot Kiki , who has gained 5 of 10 begins and earned almost $258,000 for proprietor Mansfield Racing and coach Bret Calhoun. She gained final 12 months’s Texas Stallion Pan Zareta Division Stakes at Lone Star Park and this 12 months has gained or positioned in six of seven begins.
