Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The APG sale at Ipswich yesterday was a weird one. Only 19 lots of the 41 lots on offer sold, at an appalling clearance rate of just 46.34%. If Inglis or the Magic millions only sold those sort of numbers they would give up. NZ Standardbred would too. There were three reasons for the low […]
Respected harness racing participant Ben Settree’s concerns about the future of harness race breeding and indeed that of the industry itself are vividly illustrated by the results from last week’s APG Mixed Winter Sale. It was an abject disaster. Only 29 of the 126 lots offered sold. The overall clearance rate was just 23.02%. Even […]
The results are in from the APG Autumn Mix Sale, and to put it bluntly they are atrocious. 65 of the 93 lots on offer were passed in. Of the 28 lots that actually sold, 7 of them went for less than the $330 cost of entry. 2 lots sold for $400. 12 in total […]
Australian Pacing Gold (APG) returned to Adelaide for the first time in a long time yesterday to hold a standardbred yearling sale. The way the sale went they might have been better off staying at home. Only 29 lots were presented for sale, and of these only 17 sold. Given that at least half a […]
Hi Archie, For many of the run of the mill breeders, the Perth APG Sale was a disaster. Of course, the blue bloods sold well to the blue blood owners who threw plenty of money around as they usually do, chasing the sales series cash as they have done for years. But some breeders took […]
Double Westbred is a terrible program that perpetuates the breeding of horses for the bottom shelf and widens the divide between the haves and the have nots, is it any wonder people don’t want them. Merv did miss out something very significant from the top end of the sale, two usually very prolific buyers, Team […]
Lot 90 was sent into the sale ring at yesterday’s Nutrien Sunshine Stars auction. The filly attracted bids up to $8 000 but didn’t reach its reserve. Then it disappeared. She is not in the catalogue anymore. On the results list (photo at top of story) she is shown as having been withdrawn. It’s not […]
Yesterday’s APG standardbred yearling sale at Ipswich proved yet another disaster for the struggling auction house, with sales revenue and sustaining fees from the sale not even covering half of the promised future prizemoney for the race series for horses sold at the sale. Only 30 of the very disappointing 38 lots put up for […]
First year stallion King of Swing was one of the lone shining stars of the APG Melbourne sale, with his half-sister to star filly Just Hope topping the sale by selling for $82 500, a price well in excess of most market expectations and an outstanding return on his $8 800 service fee. While that […]
The Australian Pacing Gold (APG) yearling sale in Melbourne on the weekend can be described as a disappointing, if you want to be kind. Very disappointing indeed. How many people even knew it was on? We have spoken to a number of buyers at previous sales who say that they were never contacted by APG […]
