Dollars and Sense with Frank Angst

The seventh session ended with 295 horses changing hands for a total of $31,039,000, including private sales. The average was $105,217, with a median of $75,000. Seventy-five horses failed to meet their reserve, resulting in an RNA rate of 20.3%.

Hip 2266, a filly by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm’s Good Magic, and Hip 2302, a filly by Spendthrift Farm’s Omaha Beach, were the co-highest priced fillies of the session at $400,000.

Southern California trainer Sergio Morfin was suspended and fined following two methocarbamol positives found following the first two career starts of 3-year-old Lady Dosia. He got additional penalties for having multiple violations within two years.

Darley America’s late sire is the Keeeneland September Yearling Sale’s leading broodmare sire by number of seven-figure yearlings sold through the sale’s sixth session.

The Axe the Racing Tax campaign has evidently hit a nerve at the Treasury, which made what was seen to be the unusual move of issuing a statement on the eve of the protest. The statement was also notable for being particularly tetchy in its tone.

Racing Australia will go back to the drawing board this week after a bid to make four more NSW races group 1s was rejected by the Asian Racing Federation’s Asian Pattern Committee.

On the Sept. 15 episode of BloodHorse Monday, Louie Rabaut and Sean Collins on the start of the Kentucky Derby and Oaks trails, Frank Angst discusses opening week of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and we preview the Pennsylvania Derby (G1).

It is hard to believe good karma has not played a role in Thoroughbred owner Lucas Stritsman’s uncommon success.

At the end of the sixth session, a total of 1,305 horses changed hands for $434,982,000, including private sales, surpassing last year’s record sale that grossed $428,097,000 from the 12-session sale.