Johan Palema Sells For Six Figures

Johan Palema winning the Yonkers Trot

The 2021 Yonkers Trot winner, Johan Palema, will have new connections after selling for six figures this week online.

The four-year-old son of Bar Hopping won last year’s first jewel of Trotting’s Triple Crown in 1:55 over a rain-soaked Yonkers Raceway. Sold by Bender Sweden Inc. of Vero Beach, Florida for $120,500 to lead this week's online auctions at onGait.com, Johan Palema leaves the Ake Svanstedt stable to join Per Engblom’s barn.  A five-time winner from 22 starts, he has banked just over $600,000 and took his mark of 1:50.4 as a three-year-old at The Meadowlands.

A total of 80 horses changed hands through onGait’s auctions so far this week, including Lookslikagoodfella 2,2:01.4h, a two-year-old Ontario Sires Stakes performer with Blair Burgess the winning bidder at $77,000; Infinity Stone 4,1:52.4f, a son of Il Sogno Dream leaving the Engblom barn after being bought for $72,000 by Allen Hazzard; and Mark With A K p,6,1:48, sold to M Spacc Stables of New York for $70,000.

Ron Burke’s 13-horse stable reduction consignment was led by the four-year-old Racing Hill mare, Heavenissofaraway p,4,1:51.2f, which sold for $75,000 to Mark Ford; Buy In p,5,1:50.2f, a $70,000 purchase for Greg Luther; and Ucanttouchthis p,4,1:49.4, a Control The Moment four-year-old sold to Joe Nelson of Maine for $62,000.

(With files from onGait.com) 

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