All-time record smashed for Harrisburg yearling sale

Standardbred Horse Sales Company made $44 million at its yearling sale for the first time.

All-time record smashed for Harrisburg yearling sale. Average yearlings price in 2022 was $49,077 compared to $54,653 in 2021. Wednesday's single session gross registered $8,636,000 from 398 yearings sold. The third session last year saw 356 yearolds sold for $9,038,500. The single-session gross plateau represented just a 4.5% dip in year-to-year change.

Bill Donovan won the auction with $100,000 on Vignette Blue Chip. Linda Toscano won $93,900 on Tenacious Hanover. The colt comes from a family with a great granddam and a half-sister to millionaire Kenneth J. and O'Brien Award and Breeders Crown winner Percy BlueChip. The sale is the last one of the season. It's the end of it. There's no more chance. They were prepared to go a little bit more than they thought. This is because it's a sale season and there's only one more. sale. Thursday Just Divine is racing in the Matron.

Hanover Shoe Farm sold $14,115,000 worth of yearlings at the 2022 sale. The gross beats their previous record of $13,156,00 from 199 yearolds sold in 2021. Dr. Bridgette Jablonsky is optimistic about the future of the business. On Thursday, the first day of a mixed sale takes place. Dr Bridgette will look at 20 broodmares and narrow the shortlist for the selection. She likes to make high-profile purchases at this sale as it's the best place to sell a broodmare. It's also the place where she knows how much money she has to spend.

All-time record smashed for Harrisburg yearling sale. The layout of the Farm Show Complex shifts in the course of 14 hours to accommodate the hundreds of horses shipping in for the start of a mixed sale today (Nov. 10). The mixed sales will focus on breeding prospects and established broodmares on Friday ( Nov. 11). On Thursday, the sale will be focusing on Fabulous Fillies. On Friday, it will also focus mainly on racehorses. The numbers for Standardbred Horse Sale are down about 60. Welk wraps his second year at the helm of this operation. He is looking forward to the mixed. sale and hopes it can keep this record thing going.