D'wildcat Colt Tops Equine Sales Co. Auction
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Based on what the sale company called preliminary results, Rodney Verret landed a 2-year-old D'wildcat colt named D'digger for $57,000 to top the Equine Sales Co. 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale May 10 in Opelousas, La.
Consigned by Twin Oaks Training Center, agent, d'Digger was bred in Louisiana by Raymond Prejean. The sale topper is out of grade II-winning Mining mare Desert Digger, who also has produced stakes winner Sirmione, by Cozzene; and stakes-placed Back Packer, by Broad Brush. Sirmione has produced stakes-placed Little Sandy, by Speightstown.
In the May 8 breeze show, d'Digger completed a furlong in 11 seconds.
Equine Sales Co. reported double-digit gains in gross, average and median. From 92 head offered, 60 sold for gross receipts of $918,300 with an average of $14,811 and median of $11,000. The gross represented a 27.4% gain over last year’s $720,700 when 54 of 75 offered were sold. This year’s average increased 11% from the $13,346 figure a year ago, and the median soared 60.6% from $6,850. Buybacks represented 32% of the total through the ring, up from 28% last year.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with the results of this sale,” sales director Foster Bridewell said. “This was our third juvenile auction, and I think it has really established a foothold in the region in that short time. It really helped having the Equine Sales Derby and Equine Sales Oaks last week at Evangeline Downs to showcase the quality of horses to come out of this auction.”
Horses that went through the ring are eligible for the 2017 Equine Sales Derby and Oaks.
Sale-topping filly Shamrock Star, from the first crop of Star Guitar , was landed for $45,000 by Carl Moore Management. Consigned by Benchmark Training Center, agent, Shamrock Star breezed a furlong in 10 1/5.
Bred in Louisiana by Half Moon Stables, Shamrock Star is out of Indian Treaty, by Eugene's Third Son. Indian Treaty is a half sister to multiple stakes winner There Goes Rocket, by Valid Expectations.