{"id":5443,"date":"2010-09-07T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2010-09-09T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T01:03:40","slug":"ruidoso-select-yearling-sale-concludes-on-upswing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=5443","title":{"rendered":"Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale concludes on upswing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5512\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/CherryJubalee3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5512 \" title=\"CherryJubalee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/CherryJubalee3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry Jubalee, a top seller at $240,000, photo by Sally Harrison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale defied a downturn in racehorse yearling sales by showing an overall 7.7 percent increase in average prices.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day sale concluded on Sunday, September 5 at Ruidoso Downs, with a gross sales of $12,722,425 for 363 horses, an average of $35,048, and a buy back rate of 22 percent. The 2009 sale, with a buy back rate of 26 percent, saw 364 lots bring an average of $32,546.<\/p>\n<p>Four of this year&#8217;s yearlings sold for $300,000 or more, including Wild And Fast, the sale topper at $340,000. The Corona Cartel colt, out of multiple G1 stakes winner Wild Six, was consigned by Lee, Sherwood and Mineer and purchased by Rene Ruiz.<\/p>\n<p>The Corona Cartel son All Corona, whose dam, stakes producer Allamericandreamgirl, is a half-sister to champions Heartswideopn and Special Phoebe, sold for $300,000, as did First Down Dash offspring Too Tempting and Fly First Down.<\/p>\n<p>Heath Taylor purchased All Corona from Lance Robison, while Raul Ramirez bought both Too Tempting and Fly First Down from Burns Ranch, agent. Too Tempting is a full sister to 2-year-old champion colt Tempting Dash and G1 stakes winner A Tempting Dash. Fly First Down is out of G1 stakes-placed Babe On The Fly by Strawfly Special.<\/p>\n<p>Another four yearlings sold for $200,000 or more and an additional 27 brought $100,000 or more for a total of 35 yearlings that commanded prices from $360,000 to $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Julianna Hawn Holt, the leading consigner in 2009, realized an average of $120,286 on seven head this year, including Cherry Jubalee at $240,000 and Night Jasmine at $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Broodmare and broodmare prospects were offered on opening night before the yearlings were offered. All American Derby qualifier Callan Rocks topped that section on a bid of $300,000 from Dr. Ed Allred. The Corona Cartel daughter was sold by Crystal Springs Farm, agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale defied a downturn in racehorse yearling sales by showing an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5449,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}