LIVE: JRHA Select Sale 2016 at Northern Horse Park

[uma_nosuke]

Live streaming: http://live.jbis.or.jp/ (already on air)
JRHA page of the sale : http://www4.jrha.or.jp/eng/index.html

Today (11th July): yearling session begins at 2:00 AM on Monday (GMT), or at 9:00 PM (New York), at 6:00 PM on Sunday (Los Angeles).
Tomorrow (12th July): foal session

#107: Awesome Feather 2015
http://www.jrha.or.jp/select/2016/107.html

[lurkey mclurker]

Oooh thank you uma!

[lurkey mclurker]

Verrrrrrry handsome bay colt (hip 30 - Manhattan Cafe x Retsina) at almost $600k... can't wait for later, hip 68 King Kamehameha x Sonic Groove and hip 71 Deep Impact x Gabby's Golden Gal!

[lurkey mclurker]

Wowzers, hip 53 from Paca Paca Farm is all worked up & sweaty and being very difficult to handle.

[lurkey mclurker]

WHOA and a bay Orfevre colt (hip 55) came in dragging TWO handlers & almost went straight through the out gate!

ETA: so much rearing & dragging them around - if he's this strong as a yearling look out - still brought $400k and then tried to bite his handlers on the hand-off afterward

[lurkey mclurker]

What the heck, and the very next hip - a Heart's Cry colt - rears up & catches the handler with a front hoof, and then when he comes down and stands, strikes the handler again with a front hoof. Sheesh.

[lurkey mclurker]

Henny Hughes colt - hip 61, $1.39million I didn't think he was that much to look at, but what do I know I guess!

[lurkey mclurker]

Hip 71 Deep Impact x Gabby's Golden Gal colt - $1.14 million

[lurkey mclurker]

Hip 99 - Deep Impact x Champagne d'Oro colt $945k

[lurkey mclurker]

WOW the Awesome Feather colt by Deep Impact - $2.58million (or $2.7million, there was some discrepancy all night between the graphic in the YouTube live stream & what the screen showed behind the auctioneers...???), and now that I've seen that it's time for bed. : ))))

[lurkey mclurker]

Is this Just a Way's first crop of foals? Hip 305 was a little cutie, very nicely put together. <3

[lurkey mclurker]

Hip 312 must have a nurse mare? Because unless I'm going blind(er), that is a Halflinger pony they led in with him.

ETA: And now 313 is all by herself...

[lurkey mclurker]

Hip 328 colt by Deep Impact x Elusive Wave brings $2.7million (just a bit more than the sales topper yearling colt yesterday). He was very nice looking but whoa!

[lurkey mclurker]

The Payton d'Oro & Ultra Blend colts aren't until way later, and I"m not really familiar with the rest of the mares, so I think I'm done for now... can't fathom paying two and a half million dollars for a *weanling*. Wow.

[Northport]

In case anyone was wondering how the Yoshida's can continue to afford to buy the best mares in the world, with it being estimated that they have spent over $100,000,000 in the last several years... it's because they made over 50% of the $79,000,000 USD in sales over two days in the yearling session alone at this year's Select Sale I mean, the average price of sale with 247 yearlings is $368,348 USD! The amount of money spent on bloodstock and purses in Japan never ceases to amaze me.

They may spend a ton of money, but I am willing to bet that the Yoshidas finish each year in the black

[Flanders]

In case anyone was wondering how the Yoshida's can continue to afford to buy the best mares in the world, with it being estimated that they have spent over $100,000,000 in the last several years... it's because they made over 50% of the $79,000,000 USD in sales over two days in the yearling session alone at this year's Select Sale I mean, the average price of sale with 247 yearlings is $368,348 USD! The amount of money spent on bloodstock and purses in Japan never ceases to amaze me.

They may spend a ton of money, but I am willing to bet that the Yoshidas finish each year in the black

This story from last year says while they have spent a ton of money, the mares pay for themselves with one or two foals sold.
http://bloodstock.racingpost.com/news/b ... g/1931155/

[Northport]

Coolmore got outbid on the 2016 c. Deep Impact X Elusive Wave, by Elusive City, that sure doesn't happen often... though foals selling for $2,718,650 USD isn't a common occurrence either.

http://bloodstock.racingpost.com/news/b ... 17724/top/

[lurkey mclurker]

I was wondering if any of the big name (non-Japan) stables were there, I looked through the yearling buyers but only recognized Charles Fipke. Haven't looked through the foal results yet.

http://bloodstock.racingpost.com/news/b ... 17129/top/

[Treve]

Coolmore got outbid on the 2016 c. Deep Impact X Elusive Wave, by Elusive City, that sure doesn't happen often... though foals selling for $2,718,650 USD isn't a common occurrence either.

http://bloodstock.racingpost.com/news/b ... 17724/top/

That is pretty shocking indeed!

[Starspangled]

The funny thing is, Coolmore actually sold the dam to Japan, in foal to Frankel