NOTES FROM DAY THREE OF THE LOS AL SALE

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Twice As Grand Is High Selling Los Alamitos Equine Sale Yearling

LOS ALAMITOS RACE COURSE, CYPRESS, CA—OCTOBER 8, 2007—Zory Kuzyk purchased the Grand Slam colt Twice As Grand (Hip #432) out of her mare Check Her Twice for $160,000 to make him the high seller on the third and final day of the Los Alamitos Equine Sale.

Roger Daly consigned Twice As Grand on behalf of Kuzyk and D. Wayne Lukas. With the transaction, Kuzyk buys out Lukas’ interest on the half brother to multiple Grade 1 winner and top stallion Check Him Out. Twice As Grand was also the overall high selling yearling at the three-day Equine Sale event. He was one of five yearlings that sold for over $100,00. The overall sale topper was the stallion Make It Anywhere, who was purchased by Ramiro Villarreal Tostado and Ramiro Villarreal for $230,000 on Friday afternoon.

Two hundred and eighty seven yearlings were sold for a total of $5,149,000. The sale average for yearlings was down from last year but it was still a healthy $17,941 with the median price coming at $9,200. The median was up 3 percent from last year. There were 96 yearlings repurchased for $1,696,000.

“I thought we had a very solid sale,” said Frank “Scoop” Vessels, who conducts the sale in partnership with Ed Allred and the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association. “We didn’t really have the real high selling yearlings that we had last year but the middle market was very strong. The buyers and sellers were happy with the way the sale went.”

The broodmare division of the sale enjoyed a 55 percent increase over last year’s figure. Seventy-eight mares were sold for a total of $1,135,000 for an average of $14,551. Last year’s average was $9,376. The mixed portion of the sale, which includes the Make It Anywhere sale, was even with 53 horses selling for $818,500 for an average of $15,443. A total of 418 horses were sold for $7,102,500 for an average of $16,992. Last year’s sale featured a $485,000 sale topper, which pushed the sale average over the $20,000 mark.

Five hundred and thirty four horses went through the sale ring for a total of $9,019,400. Of those 534, 418 sold while 116 were repurchased. Forty horses sold for $50,000 or more for an average of 11%. That ratio was identical to 2006 when 34 of 344 horses sold for $50,000 or more. Francisco Gonsalez was the top consignor by gross with $1,245,200 while Jorge Haddad was the top buyer by gross with $265,500.

“I can’t believe how much this sale has grown in such a short period,” Vessels added. “We really appreciate all the people that bought and sold horses at the Los Alamitos Equine Sale.”

Tom Atwood purchased Discreat Retreat (Hip #630) for $140,000 to make the Mr Jess Perry filly the second high seller on day three of the sale. Consigned by Lazy E Ranch, Agent for Stone Chase Stables, Discreat Retreat is a half sister to the Holland Ease gelding Night Time Deelites, winner of the Higheasterjet Handicap and finalist to the Los Alamitos Million Futurity.


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Manuel and Elva Rodriguez, owners of All American Futurity winner Heartswideopen, purchased two head under the banner of La Felix Montana Ranch LLC. for a total of $175,000. They purchased The Corona Cartel filly Dashing Queen (Hip #457) for $95,000 and the Mr Jess Perry filly Mr Perrys Wine (Hip #530) for $80,000.The latter is from the family of La Primera Del Ano Derby Champagne Lane and Kendall Jackson, while the former is a full sister to Los Alamitos Million Futurity runner-up Corona Music.

“We like their bloodlines but we know that in this game you have pick them and hope that they do well,” said Manuel Rodriguez. “We looked at Dashing Queen closely and we feel that she has a lot of potential. We’ll take her to our ranch in Hondo, New Mexico and we’ll start getting her ready for the 2008 season. It’ll be difficult to find another Heartswideopen but we’ll have fun trying.


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After a heartbreaking evening on PCQHRA Breeders Futurity night that saw them lose the stakes placed runner Bikers Bono, the partnership that owned him bought Hard Hitting (Hip #434) for $60,000.

“We’ll never forget Bikers Bono,” Jane Rosenberg said. “Who could have predicted that end? But we had a meeting at about 1 p.m. and we talked about where we wanted to go from here. The question was raised, ‘Do you want to fold or do you want to do it again?’ I’m proud of our group because even thought we a lot of first time owners we’ve decided to stick together and try again.”

“We’re retiring Bikers Bono’s silks,” said Linda Cannon. “Bikers Bono brought us so much joy, so much camaraderie and fun and we don’t want this to end.”

More owners are scheduled to join the partnership of the TR Dasher colt Hard Hitting. He is a half brother to Lassen County, who finished second in both the El Primero Del Ano and Los Alamitos Winter derbies.


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Complete sale results to the 2007 Los Alamitos Equine Sale are now available by clicking here.

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