Practical Joke Filly Tops CTHS Sale at CA$180,000
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The Practical Joke filly consigned as Hip 75 with Arika Everatt-Meeuse at the CTHS Sale
A bay filly by Practical Joke brought CA$180,000 (US$142,780) to top the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division)'s Premier Yearling Sale Sept. 1 at Woodbine, where five yearlings were bought for six figures from 158 sold.
Consigned as Hip 75, the filly sold to J. Nelson from the Shannondoe Farm draft. She was bred by Stablemates in Ontario out of the multiple stakes-winning mare Silent Treat , by Silent Name .
"She was raised at the farm in Paris (Ky.); I usually bring our babies to that farm in April-May of their yearling year. There were about half a dozen I left behind for my farm manager there to prep, and then we brought her up a few weeks before the sale," said Arika Everatt-Meeuse of Shannondoe, which has an Ontario division and a Kentucky location.
"I just really liked (Practical Joke). The dam is a smaller mare, so physically he suited her, and cross-wise I thought it would be good," Everatt-Meeuse said. "The breeders have the one mare, and their focus was commercial. She's got a Classic Empire filly at her side as well.
"They're going to stay in for a piece, and I think it will be a nice partnership," Everatt-Meeuse added.
A colt by Silent Name brought the second-highest price of CA$160,000 ($126,915). Offered as Hip 94, he is out of the stakes-placed Sweet Bama Breeze , by City Zip , and is a half brother to stakes winner Will She , by Wando . The colt was purchased by Stuart Simon, acting as agent for William and Anne Scott, and was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency.
On selling the sale topper, Everatt-Meeuse said: "We topped this sale a couple of years ago with a Society's Chairman at CA$200,000 and that was unbelievable, so for her to sell for what she did was very good. There were some nice prices in there, the usual story—the top sells well, the middle market is spotty, and the bottom is non-existent."
Total figures saw 158 yearlings sold for gross receipts of CA$3,144,400 ($2,494,200). An average of CA$19,901 ($15,785) for this year with a median price of CA$10,000 ($7,932). The 2020 installment saw 142 yearlings sold for a gross of CA$2,795,300 ($2,217,290), an average of CA$19,685 ($15,614), and a median price of CA$14,500 ($11,501).