Numbers fall at Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale

Numbers fell significantly in the third session of Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky

Fall Yearling Sale at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday

despite no corresponding third session in the 2007 sale. A total of 553

yearlings brought a total $7,471,900 during this sale, down 29.5 percent over 12

months ago when 566 horses were sold for an aggregate $10,595,700. The average

of $13,512 dropped 27.8 percent when compared to the $18,720 average realized in

2008. The median plummeted 45 percent, from $10,000 to $5,500.

Hip No. 1062, BOJAN (Wildcat Heir), brought the highest price on Wednesday

when selling for $107,000 to Elwaleed A. Mousa. Consigned by Wendy Noel Sales,

agent, the bay Florida-bred is out of multiple stakes winner Light Line (Wildcat

Heir), who ran third in the 2000 Oaklawn S. (G3). The March colt counts among

his family Grade 1 winner Fiesta Lady (Secretariat) and multiple Grade 2

victress Bsharpsonata (Pulpit), who was third in this year's Ashland S. (G1).

For Wednesday's session, 166 yearlings sold for a gross $2,151,600, an

average of $12,961 and a median of $5,000.