Nancy Guest buys topper, Gary Barber buys three and the Canuck Racing Club are busy as sale has some ups and downs.
Sales
The MPP allows breeders to expand their broodmare bands with new bloodlines and helps Ontario get more broodmares into the province.
The Manitoba sale realized an increase in average price for the fourth consecutive year, although the buy-back rate was up.
Ontario owners can once again use Sales Credits earned via TIP to support their purchases at the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale on Aug. 30.
The first major yearling sale of 2023 featured some Ontario-breds that sold for Sue Foreman, Saintsbury Farm and Anderson Farms.
Noted American owner and trainer Wesley Ward bought the colt bred by Christine and Jay Hayden's Saintsbury Farm.
Susan Foreman and Bernard McCormack consign some yearlings to the first major auction of 2023, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sale.
Ontario owner and breeder had a nice homebred winner in Lady Urus last weekend and spent some of that money at Florida sale.
The Ontario-bred was purchased by Rabbah Bloodstock Limited, an agency founded by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.
And Vancouver's Peter Redekop purchases two two-year-olds during the first session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales April Spring auction.
There are a number of Ontario-bred and/or Ontario-sired juveniles in the Florida sale that begins on Tuesday.
The handsome colt by Mo Town, bred by Katie Browne and Brian Bell, was picked up by Vince Foglia, who races as Patricia's Hope LLC.
Some 800 youngsters are up for auction at the OBS March juvenile sale beginning Monday, March 20 in Ocala, Florida.
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Shirley Camilleri signed the ticket on Awesome Elle, a daughter of Awesome Again in foal to Not This Time, for $100,000.
