14 yearlings sell for seven figures during Saratoga Sale.
A total of 14 yearlings sold for seven figures at this year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale held over two sessions on Monday and Tuesday. There were also new records set for gross, average and median with 143 lots sold for a total of US$66,955,000.
The gross was up 21 per cent from a year ago when 135 horses sold for US$55,155,000 and was up seven per cent from the previous sale record set in 2018 when 170 yearlings were sold for US$62,784,000. This year's average was up 15 per cent to US$468,217 while the median finished at US$375,000.
A colt by the Three Chimneys Farm-based sire Gun Runner (Candy Ride) topped the second and final session when sold for US$2,300,000 to White Birch Farm and M.V. Magnier late on Tuesday.
Offered as Lot 202.pdf by Gainesway, agent, the colt is the second foal out of the Grade 1 winning Malibu Moon (A P Indy) mare Heavenly Love, from the family of Zenno Rob Roy (Sunday Silence).
