Fresh off the heels of the record-breaking Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton is ready to carry that momentum into its New York-Bred Yearling Sale on August 11 and 12.
Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 300 horses for the two-day sale. Opening night begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on August 11 to make room for the Fourstardave Handicap (G1T) and the Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T). Those races were originally scheduled to run on August 3 but were canceled due to rain. The August 12 session will begin at noon ET as originally scheduled.
Hips 300-400 will be sold on August 11 at the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion, and hips 401-600 will be sold on August 12.
“We’ve now sort of drawn a line under the last two (Fasig-Tipton July Sale and Saratoga Sale). That bodes well for the New York Bred Sale,” said Boyd Browning Jr., president and CEO of Fasig-Tipton.
A new gross record was set in 2023, with total sales of $20,929,000 over two days. Last year’s top price for a yearling at the New York Showcase auction was $380,000, with the average being $95,132.
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“Good things are happening in the New York horse program, we will soon reach price parity,” Browning said.
Beginning January 1, 2026, night racing for two-year-olds will begin at the New York Racing Association track for New York-bred horses. Prize money will be the same as open company racing. The 2024 New York-bred foal crop will be the first to benefit from the prize money parity program.
Mo Plex is one of the youngest notable graduates of the New York Bred Yearling Sale. The 2-year-old son of complexity won the Sanford Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Racetrack July 13th.
“We’re already competing for big prize money, breeders’ prices and everything else. I think people will continue to pay a lot of money for these horses,” said consignor Chris Bernhard of Hidden Lake Farm.
“The Saratoga Sale is up 9%, I expect we’ll match that or even better. I’ve seen some really nice horses here.”
Indian Creek will consign 19 horses to the sale. After her success last week at the Saratoga Sale, where she Into disaster Sarah Sutherland of Indian Creek is encouraged by the traffic on the sale lot and the number of buyers who stayed in town to bid on her colt for $1 million.
“The appetite to buy horses is obviously higher than it has been for years. The horses that are physically fit, have a bit of pedigree and have a vet visit – it just seems crazy,” she said.
The Saratoga Sale, held on August 5 and 6, broke records in the sale’s history for both gross and average proceeds. Competition for a horse was fierce, and many buyers went home empty-handed. That could benefit those selling yearlings at the New York-bred sale.
“I think in theory it should help. Sales vary a lot, but ultimately people are looking for nice horses,” Sutherland said.
“Increasing breeder funds and the New York breeding program is a great sell in that regard. You can see that it is supported by end users and people who want to buy a nice horse. A New York breeding program is the icing on the cake.”
A horse gets a bath before the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale
