The catalogue for the 2023 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale is now available online.
It may be viewed or downloaded at lexingtonselected.com and on the Equineline Sales Catalog app. The print catalogue will be mailed in late August.
The yearling auction — which produced the winners of the last four renewals of the $1 million Hambletonian — gets underway on Monday, Oct. 2 with a 7 p.m. start time. The sale continues Tuesday through Thursday with afternoon sessions beginning at 1 p.m., then concludes Friday, Oct. 6, with that final session getting underway at 7 p.m.
The sale will be held as usual at the spacious Fasig-Tipton Newtown Paddocks. For those unable to attend, the sale will be livestreamed with live bidding offered at proxibid.com.
Last year’s sale, with gross receipts of $65.2 million, set 16 all-time industry records, including high water marks for both average and median. According to sale co-managers David Reid and Bruce Brinkerhoff, this fall’s renewal offers another power-packed catalogue from beginning to end.
“Once again, it’s the overall depth of the catalogue that’s impressive,” said Reid. “There’s quality selling every session at every price point. Horses are eligible to a wide array of sire stakes programs, plus there’s a large number of dual-eligibles. In addition to all the proven sires, this sale offers the first opportunity to buy from the first crops of Tall Dark Stranger, Papi Rob Hanover, Gimpanzee and others.”
Brinkerhoff added, “It’s not only the pedigrees — which buyers have come to expect in Lexington — it’s the physicals of these horses. Breeders just do a better and better job every year of sending us outstanding-looking individuals that are raised to become the sport’s best racehorses.”
As it has been for years, the yearling sale is bookended by two weekends of major stakes racing at the Red Mile, and that combination makes up what Reid calls “the Lexington experience.”
“There’s nothing like it in all of harness racing," he said. “Lexington is the sport’s fall destination, and for good reason.”
(Lexington Selected)