Following a strong market at the Japan Racing Horse Association Select Sale at Tomakomai July 10-11, and Hidaka Breeders Association Selection Sale at Shizunai July 25-26, the HBA Summer Yearling Sale Aug. 21-25 at Shizunai continued the momentum and produced record-breaking results.
From 1,368 lots, 1,068 were offered and sold for ¥7,508,500,000, approximately US$51 million. The average price was ¥7,030,431 (US$47,755) with the median price coming in at ¥5,300,000 (US$36,001). Those figures are 17.6%, 5.5%, and 6.0% increases, respectively, from the previous year and are new records for this sale. The clearance rate of 78.07%, is also a new record.
Hip 1,085, consigned from Kojima Bokujo and went through the sales ring on the fourth day, was bought by Tatsuya Akimoto for ¥54,000,000 (US$366,780), the highest price at the session. The black bay colt is by Kitasan Black , whose offspring include Equinox , the current leader of the World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings, and Sol Orience, the unbeaten winner of Satsuko Sho (G1), the first leg of the Japanese Triple Crown. Silvered, third dam of the sales topper, is the winner of 1990 Fantasy Stakes (G2) and the 1992 Golden Harvest Handicap (G3T) and was bought by Koichiro Hayata for $215,000 at the 1990 Keeneland November Sale.
The next major yearling sale in Japan is HBA September Sale at Shizunai Sept. 19-21, which has 585 yearlings cataloged.
