By Bloodhorse.com
DEL MAR, Calif. (Aug. 16, 2015) — A California-bred son of Harlan’s Holiday and a daughter of Tapizar each brought $90,000 to top the inaugural Barretts select yearling sale at Del Mar racetrack Aug. 15.
The sale, held after the day’s races, averaged $36,524, with 42 grossing $1,534,000; 25 of the 67 through the ring did not sell. The median was $31,000.
Barretts conducted the sale in the Surfside Race Place adjacent to the racetrack. It was standing room only early in the sale, though the crowd thinned out considerably by the end of the session.
“We experimented with the sale after the races, but I would think that next year we’ll go to a day session on a dark day,” said Kim Lloyd, general manager of Barretts. “This makes for too long of a day. We will try things and adjust as we go along.”
Barretts is in its first year of conducting all of its sales at Del Mar. The company previously sold at Fairplex Park in Pomona, a facility that closed its racetrack earlier this year.
Deron Pearson’s D. P. Racing was the leading buyer, getting three for $177,000, including one of the sale toppers. Jim Cassidy, who trains for Pearson, bid on the horses and went to $90,000 for a California-bred son of Harlan’s Holiday—Diva’s Seastar, by Broken Vow.
“I liked him the first time I saw him,” said Cassidy.
John Harris’ Harris Farms consigned the colt for breeders Allen and Susan Branch. They raced Diva’s Seastar, who finished second in the 2007 Flawlessly Stakes.
“He’s a nice colt–very precocious,” said Dave McGlothlin, Harris’ general manager of the horse division. “He was foaled at Harris, and we raised him.”
Michael and Janet Dante of Villa Park, Calif., purchased the other $90,000 sale topper with agent Rick Trontz. Elena Crim’s H & E Ranch consigned the filly, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Tapizar—Sallie’s Memory, by Holy Bull. Sallie’s Memory is also the dam of stakes winner Jamaican Memories.
“She had a nice long hip on her, was very pretty, and by a first-year stallion,” said Trontz of the Tapizar filly.
Mike Puype trains for the Dantes and will likely condition her.
Crim bred and raced Sallie’s Memory. “The mare has been very good to me,” she said. “I’m excited about Tapizar. I think he’s a great stallion. I have four other Tapizars, including a couple that I’m selling at Keeneland (September yearling sale).”
Crim also sold a Cal-bred son of Majesticperfection —Princess Deelite, by Afternoon Deelites, for $65,000 to trainer Dan Hendricks, as agent for Super Horse.
Julie Adair Stack consigned the third-highest-priced yearling of the sale. The Cal-bred son of Heatseeker—Ban, by After Market, brought $85,000 from Gary Broad, the second-leading buyer.