Middletown, NY – If you have not yet made plans to attend the upcoming Goshen Yearling Sale on Monday (Sept. 9), this might be a good time to pencil it in as it will be your first opportunity to purchase high quality, New York-bred yearlings that will be eligible to participate in the substantial purse increases for next year that were just announced by the Agriculture and New York State Horse Breeding Development fund.
Starting in 2025, the New York Sire Stake finals will increase from $225,000 to $300,000, the Excelsior finals will go from $55,000 to $100,000 and the County Fair finals will go from $15,000 to $25,000.
The Fund has also announced they will introduce an entirely new race for 2-year-olds in 2025 with a total value of $1 million (four divisions by sex and gait worth $250,000 each).
From the 84 horses being offered in this year’s Goshen Yearling Sale, 62 are New York-bred, making this sale a must for anyone planning on racing in the NYSS next year. All the top New York sires have offspring in the sale including 13 by Huntsville, eight by Courtly Choice, four by American Ideal, four by Devious Man and one by Chapter Seven.
With the new enhanced purse structure in place for next year, the prices on New York-breds are sure to climb substantially this fall and the Goshen yearling Sale is the perfect opportunity to get in on the action early.
The 2024 Goshen Yearling Sale will be held at noon on Monday (Sept. 9) at the Mark Ford Training Center in Middletown, NY, and the site is currently undergoing the final touches to help make sure this year’s buying and selling experience is the best it can be. The facility is expecting a sizable crowd with the number of excellent New York-bred prospects for sale that day.
Catalogs are still available at most tracks and training centers in the northeast and can be downloaded right from the GYS website (goshenyearlingsale.com).
Live video of the entire sale and online bidding will be available through Cattle In Motion. Their website (cattleinmotion.com) is your one-stop shop for everything pertaining to the GYS but you will need to register in advance of the sale for all the available benefits.
You can register now by going to cattleinmotion.com, scroll down to click on Goshen Yearling Sale on their homepage and then follow the process to bid online. This includes creating an account, completing the lifetime verification (which gives you access to all future online auctions) and then signing up for the Goshen Yearling Sale. The whole process takes about five minutes and when you are done, it will show “you are eligible to bid on this auction” at the bottom of the page.
You can also download their mobile app for your phone at the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.
Should you need any assistance or have any questions concerning this sale registration, please call 888.554.8437 or email info@cattleinmotion.com.
Cattle In Motion will also be providing the live video feed for the auction. This will start at approximately 11:15 a.m. (45 minutes before the sale at noon) and run for the duration. This feed will be available through your Cattle In Motion account and includes live and pre-recorded video of all the horses in the sale.
Once you are registered, you can also sign up for sale updates that can be received via text or email or both. These will be sent out in real time as they become available right through the end of the sale.
The sales facility is located at 90 Slaughter Road, Middletown, NY, which is within a 90-minute drive of many major race tracks and training centers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, making it a very convenient location.
For any other inquiries please contact Mark Ford directly at 973.568.3253 (cell) or by email at fordstable@frontiernet.net.