Aisle Runner Tops Hubbard Online Dispersal

All 54 horses offered in the online R.D. Hubbard Complete Thoroughbred Dispersal on ThoroughbredAuctions.com found new homes and grossed $1,560,350.

The sale average was $28,895, with a median price of $17,500. The online auction had 246 registered bidders and 100,339 page views at the close of the auction, according to the auction company. 

The sale-topper, Aisle Runner, a New Mexico-bred 2-year-old gelding by Attila's Storm, brought a final bid of $91,250. Out of the Bernardini  mare Garter, Aisle Runner was a winner who qualified for the $134,632 Rio Grande Senor Futurity, where he will race in the colors of new owner Ray Willis.

Second-highest price was fetched by leading New Mexico sire Attila's Storm. The 2002 stakes-winning son of Forest Wildcat brought $90,000 from buyer Jimmy Vasquez after staying in extended bidding for over 30 minutes. Attila's Storm is the sire of 22 stakes winners, and will remain in New Mexico, standing at Double LL Farms. 

The highest selling broodmare was Garter, a 12-year-old who fetched a final bid of $80,250 from Victory Crossing. The half sister to stakes winners and sires Stravinsky and Moscow Ballet, Garter is the dam of black-type-placed Go for a Stroll, Stormy Day, and Reception, the first of which is an earner of $413,543, and was sold pregnant to Attilla's Storm.

The top yearling was a New Mexico-bred filly by Attila's Storm out of the multiple stakes-placed mare Hang Glide purchased by Doug May of Fort Stockton, Texas, for $62,250. The filly is a full sister to four stakes winners and two stakes-place runners and the earners of over $1 million.

The filly by Attila's Storm out of Hang Glide was the high-priced weanling, realizing a final price of $55,250 from B-4 Farms.

A leading Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse owner and breeder who was also involved in racetrack ownership and the formation of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Hubbard died April 29 at the age of 84. He owned Crystal Springs Farm in Central Kentucky, which is now located in New Mexico.

The dispersal had originally been scheduled during the Ruidoso Sale in August. After Ruidoso opted to move the live auction to the Lazy E Ranch in New Mexico, ThoroughbredAuctions.com partner Tim Jennings was contacted by Hubbard's grandson, Shaun Hubbard. From the first phone call, to the close of the auction, was a mere 22 days, according to Jennings. 

"We are grateful to Shaun Hubbard for having a vision, and trusting us to sell the fruits of his grandfather's legacy" said Jennings. "We are also fortunate to have a proven platform where people in the Thoroughbred business have a place to market their horses from the safety of their homes. "

Tim and Cathy Jennings of ThoroughbredAuctions.com started holding internet horse auctions in 2012. Their previous auction experience was through their family-owned company, Professional Auction Services, the largest show horse auction company in the U.S.