KEE April 2yo's close out sale season with uptick

[citycat]

I thought that hip 117 would be the sale topper (a filly out of Spain by Johannasburg) but she only sold for 525. The first hit was 300 and it went to 4 then 5 then it was over. Not alot time taken to sell her. She was on the petite side. A couple of surprises to me were a couple of nice looking War Fronts that sold well and actually the Bluegrass Cat's looked good. Got shut out on a couple but that was expected as the ones that sold, sold pretty solid unless you were dropping 100K. Not a very large crowd but I did like the evening sale.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by citycat

I thought that hip 117 would be the sale topper (a filly out of Spain by Johannasburg) but she only sold for 525. The first hit was 300 and it went to 4 then 5 then it was over. Not alot time taken to sell her. She was on the petite side. A couple of surprises to me were a couple of nice looking War Fronts that sold well and actually the Bluegrass Cat's looked good. Got shut out on a couple but that was expected as the ones that sold, sold pretty solid unless you were dropping 100K. Not a very large crowd but I did like the evening sale.

Saw a lot of the regulars there (Pletcher, Assman, Baffert, Romans, etc.) but they didn't seem to be bidding. I really liked hip #49, RNA'd at 140k.

The one takeaway I had from this sale is there are still a lot of delusional breeders that believe their horses are worth more than they really are, based on the number of RNA's (41 vs. 71 actually sold) and the prices they RNA'd for (quite frankly, an Aragorn with a moderate work shouldn't RNA for $60k.)

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by philcski

Saw a lot of the regulars there (Pletcher, Assman, Baffert, Romans, etc.) but they didn't seem to be bidding. I really liked hip #49, RNA'd at 140k.

The one takeaway I had from this sale is there are still a lot of delusional breeders that believe their horses are worth more than they really are, based on the number of RNA's (41 vs. 71 actually sold) and the prices they RNA'd for (quite frankly, an Aragorn with a moderate work shouldn't RNA for $60k.)

Same people who are continually delusional about what their homes are worth.

[AeWingnut]

I didn't know that Bernstein was a big deal and I thought Storm Cat was done already.