In Summation (inside) beats Greg’s Gold in the Bing Crosby at Del Mar (Charles Pravata)

It’s late, I’m tired… I’ll be pithy.

Outrageous! (for Ed).

An elaboration. Question, what about auctions? Cali’s doin’ it.

Not so bad.

Hopefully Thursday is firm.

Should be Fabulous!

Don’t wear an ascot unless you’ve been there.

And whatever you do, don’t hold back!

Posted by dana on Jun 17 2008    
Filed Under: Mainstream Media, Greed, Charles Pravata, TBA, Auction, Industry, 2008, Geldings, Drugs, Fabulous Strike, International Racing, Gambling, Breeding, OTB, TV, Turf, NYRA, NTRA, Racing

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Highly coveted broodmare prospect at Belmont (Sarah K. Andrew)

More coverage of the Crystal and Alexis of the breeding set if you’re interested.

Or, you can go here to keep up with all the sales news, not just the dramas and scandals!

Update: Valerie has a great Day 2 recap.

Posted by dana on Nov 06 2007    
Filed Under: Auction, 2007, Octave, Racing

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Broodmares commanded top dollar during the auctions of the past few days while stallion prospects didn’t fare so well.

Coolmore and Darley were at it again Green Monkey style, this time over 5yo mare Playful Act. Darley won this round spending $10.5 million [DRF].

As it turns out, the Octave Drama I mentioned yesterday was also none other than Coolmore vs Darley. Coolmore “angrily” insisted that they had won the $4 million bid but the bid spotters didn’t spot them. Does that sort of thing ever happen at Christie’s or Sotheby’s?

Ferguson, representing Maktoum, signed the ticket for $4 millon after lively bidding that also involved Coolmore Stud and the Ran-Jan Stable of Bob Naify and Jan Vanderbos. But Coolmore’s team, including principal John Magnier and regular bidding representative Demi O’Byrne, angrily protested the sale, saying they had believed they had made the winning $4 million bid.

Read all about it here. [NTRA]

Posted by dana on Nov 05 2007    
Filed Under: Auction, Greed, 2007, The Green Monkey, Octave

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Today’s late Pick 4 at Aqueduct payed a whopping !46,913! A Pick 4! As you can guess, no favs won in the last 4 races.

6th: Ocean Goddess payed $59
7th: As Do I payed $56.50
8th: Sugar Shake payed $6
9th: Dancing Tin Man payed $14.90

Also not surprising that there’s another Pick 6 carryover of $154,615.

Over at Fasig-Tipton land, Valbenny beat out Super Freaky in the auction ring as well going for $1.2 million. Appealing Zophie went for $1.15, Cotton Blossom for $1.9, Irish Smoke got away for a meager $750K in comparison and one of my favs, the tough as nails Asi Siempre, went for $3 million to someone named Steve.

It was fun and alarming to watch. I loved how the auctioneer would chide the audience and throw in references to the lineage amid the stream of numbers. Occasionally when they felt the current bid was too low they would stop in the middle and talk up “the lot”.

Check in with Valerie at Foolish Pleasure for a full recap of the auction… I only watched a bit of it + she really knows her stuff about about breeding and lineages so she’ll have tons on insights.

Posted by dana on Nov 04 2007    
Filed Under: Auction, Aqueduct, Asi Siempre, Cotton Blossom, Super Freaky, Valbenny, 2007

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So I’ve gotten sucked into watching the Fasig-Tipton live auction here. I showed up just in time to see Round Pond go for $5+ million. Super Freaky went for $9,500,000.

Octave was just on the block and finished up at $4 million. When they brought the next horse into the ring, someone in the back started yelling. I couldn’t hear it but it was clearly regarding Octave’s auction. They asked him to and the buyer to go to the sales office to work it out with the sales director. Who knew it could be so dramatic!

Valbenny is up now…

Posted by dana on Nov 04 2007    
Filed Under: Auction, Valbenny, Super Freaky, 2007, Octave

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