Heritage Place Sale Posts Increases
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Heritage Place held its fifth annual Thoroughbred yearling and mixed sale in Oklahoma City Oct. 9. The yearling session saw a 22.7% increase in average compared to last year, while the overall gross remained almost even with last year's numbers.
In the yearling and mixed sale session, 73 of 96 offered sold this year for a total of $226,850 and an average of $3,108. That represents a slight increase from last year's average of $3,025, when 84 of 107 head sold for $254,100.
As usual, the highest prices came during the yearling session, topped by an Oklahoma-bred by young Kentucky stallion Astrology who sold for $18,000. Al and Bill Ulwelling purchased the colt from the consignment of Rusty Roberts, agent. The March foal is out of the Vanlandingham mare Diamond Ruth, who has produced two stakes winners.
The highest-priced filly, a daughter of former Oklahoma stallion Omega Code , sold for $16,000 to David Foster from Brewster Ranch, agent for Clark Brewster. The Oklahoma-bred is out of the stakes-winning and graded stakes-placed Wild Again mare Tuff Chick.
The average for the yearling session was $5,075, up 22.7% from last year's yearling average of $4,137.