by Ellen Harvey, Harness Racing Communications

Harrisburg, PA — Trotters were the strongest segment in the fourth session of the Standardbred Horse Sale on Thursday (Nov. 10) in Harrisburg.

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Treasury sold for $110,000 to Mark Steacy of Ontario.

The sales topper by mid-afternoon was Hip #990, Treasury, an Ontario-sired son of Majestic Son by Cash Cow-Muscles Yankee, selling for $110,000 for Mark Steacy of Ontario.

The colt is the first foal of Cash Cow 4,1:55.2, stakes placed in the Merrie Annabelle and New Jersey Sire Stakes. The colt was consigned by Hunterton Farm for Steve Stewart and Diana Guiliano.

Steacy liked the family connections.

“I had his father and I have quite a few 2-year-olds by him that I like,” he said. “This mare has a little more pedigree than some of them and I really liked his video.”

Another top seller was Bee A Magician, hip #959, who sold for $90,000 to Liverman-McDuffee-Hartman of Miami Beach, Florida. The daughter of Kadabra is out of the Balanced Image mare Beehive.

The filly, who is the first foal of Beehive, sold out of the Preferred Equine consignment for breeder White Birch Farm.

Day 4 of the Standardbred Horse Sale in Harrisburg wrapped up with 275 yearlings selling for a gross of $5,092,399 or an average of $18,517. Through four days of yearling sales, the average sales price is up 1.4% over last year to $31,161.

Trotters were the strongest segment of the day, with colts bringing an average of $22,192 and fillies an average of $23,428. On the pacing side, colts averaged $16,826 and fillies $12,843.

Trotters overall averaged $22,891 and Sales Manager Murray Brown had some observations of the final day of yearling sales. “Ontario was extremely strong, Pennsylvania’s holding its own,” he said. “New York-breds slipping a little. For the life of me, I can’t understand why the Bettor’s Delights are down, because he’s a great sire. He’s proved it years after year; he’s a leading money-winning sire, the sire of two Breeders Crown winners. It just boggles my mind.”

The sales resumes Friday at 10 am with bloodstock and racehorses for sale on Saturday.