What they’re saying: NY-bred sale buyers and sellers

The Saratoga Special’s editorial team of Miles Clancy, Fin Maroney and Julia Reedy covered the two-day Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Here are some comments from buyers and sellers from Monday’s session:

Fasig-Tipton President and CEO Boyd Browning Jr.: “The good news is most of us are very pleased in the world we live in, to have a marketplace very similar to what we had last year and in recent years, and we can continue to do the things that are necessary. We all need to continue to do the things that are necessary to improve our product. Whether it’s a racing product, whether it’s a gambling product, whether it’s a sales product. It’s incumbent upon all of us who are industry participants to strive to do that and to work together and to make a genuine effort to do that. We’re seeing really significant potential. The game, the industry, has got a lot of bright spots and there’s some areas of concern that we just need to filter. You need to address your weaknesses and grow on your strengths. And as an industry we can hopefully continue to do those things.”

Bloodstock agent Joe Migliore: “It’s been very competitive for the right horses. The ones that everybody can notice are quality offerings that are bringing real strong money. Even the ones that we thought we could land for a value price, we have struggled there too. It is great trade and all different levels. If you find the one you want, you do have to step that little extra bit when you come up here no matter the price bracket that you are in.”

Winter Quarter Farm’s Don Robinson: “It’s really good. The horses have to be really just ready for a sales ring, very precocious looking, the right sire, and then they sell very well. But sales have always been difficult. To me, it’s a little bit tougher, so I’m really happy when you get one like that, it just kind of carries the rest. I was thrilled.”

Bloodstock agent Jacob West: “It’s a better product overall. The breeders up here are taking it a lot more seriously. You can tell they’re putting a lot more money into their stud fees. That coincides with the purse money you can run for. It’s a very vibrant market and fair overall.”

Trainer Chad Brown: “We always try and identify at this sale New York-bred horses that look like we would buy them if they weren’t New York-bred horses. They have the potential to be open-company horses and their New York-bred is sort of an added bonus for them to fall back on. … We feel like the horses we bought at this sale were either by proven stallions or exciting first-crop stallions that could take us to open-company races. I thought Fasig-Tipton did a great job of selecting horses like they always do up here. I found at both sales a record number of horses who passed veterinary inspections for us. I had very few horses not pass our veterinary requirements.”

Breeder Dan Burke: “The market is pretty good up here. The main sale was incredible and the horses that check all the boxes sell very well here. Ones that don’t, don’t sell so high priced, but in general, I’d say the market is good for the right horses and the ones that aren’t right, we ought to learn how to make them right or take up a different game.”

– Reporting by Fin Maroney, Julia Reedy and Miles Clancy

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/08/12/what-theyre-saying-ny-bred-sale-buyers-and-sellers/

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