Just under 200 Canadian-bred yearlings will be offered for sale at the Woodbine pavilion Wednesday Sept. 2 for the annual Canadian Premier Yearling sale hosted by the CTHS Ontario.
For local horsepeople this will be their only place to pick up a young horse this year. Travel restrictions in the age of COVID-19 mean that traveling to the US is difficult. While many Canadians usually got to the large Keeneland Yearling Sale, that will not be the case this year and visitors there will have to quarantine for two weeks upon their return to Canada.
That should help this year’s sale, the place where recent stakes winners MARJORIE’S DREAM, DRAGON’S BREW and EL BAYERN could have been purchased for a total of $13,000. Marjorie’s Dream was a $2,000 RNA and El Bayern (has a half brother in the sale) cost $8,000. Dragon’s Brew was a $3,000 RNA. Sunday’s Elgin Stakes winner TOLD IT ALL, who has a full sibling in the sale (Big Screen – Tell No One), was bought for $20,000.
Ontario’s lucrative Ontario-bred/Ontario-sired program also helps with bonuses through the Thoroughbred Improvement Program boosting purse money available.
Of course, restrictions are in place for the sales with a limit of visitors – you must have established credit or be a known buyer – so the ‘tire kickers’ won’t be plentiful. Online bidding is available as is phone bidding and you can watch the sale on the CTHS website (see below).
Most of the province’s top sires are represented in the catalogue plus a number of successful US sires.
Hip no. 2019 offered by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm is a half brother to Muskoka Stakes winner El Bayern. This guy is by Silent Name (Jpn)
*To view videos of yearlings visit here.
*For updates, sale outs, online catalogue and online bidding instructions, click here.
More from Industry:
