Trotting mares top sale so far
January 18, 2010,by Ken Weingartner, Harness Racing Communications
East Rutherford, NJ — Trotting mares Raising Rachel and Honorable Daughter were the top sellers through the early portion of the Tattersalls January Select Mixed Sale on Monday (Jan. 18) at the Meadowlands.
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Raising Rachel was hammered down for $255,000 on Monday.
Raising Rachel was purchased by Arlene and Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms for $255,000 while Honorable Daughter, the sport’s 2-year-old filly trotting champion in 2008, went to Bill Weaver’s Valley High Stable for $185,000.
A daughter of Yankee Glide, Raising Rachel won 10 of 20 career races and earned $595,355. Last season as a 3-year-old, she won a division of the Casual Breeze Stakes and was second in the Hambletonian Oaks and Elegantimage. Her defeat in the Oaks was by just a nose to Broadway Schooner, who is owned by the Siegels.
As a 2-year-old, Raising Rachel won seven of eight starts, including a division of the Champlain. Her career mark is 1:54.1 and she is a half sister to multiple Ontario Sire Stakes division winner Reach Higher. Raising Rachel’s mother, Raising The Bar, is a half sister to millionaire mare Casual Breeze.
“She’s got a good family and very good race performances,” said Dave Elwell, Fashion Farms’ manager. “You need to have this kind to compete.”
Honorable Daughter, who is a daughter of Malabar Man, won 11 of 22 career races and earned $979,236. As a 2-year-old, she won nine of 11 starts, including the Breeders Crown, Merrie Annabelle and Matron Stakes. She set the world record for 2-year-old filly trotters on a five-eighths-mile track with a 1:55.1 clocking at Dover Downs.
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2008 Dan Patch Award winner Honorable Daughter was sold for $185,000.
Last season, she won the Empire Breeders Classic, but was slowed by bruised heels.
“I like what the (catalog) page will look like when she has a baby,” Weaver said when asked what he most liked about Honorable Daughter.
“She’s good sized; a good looking mare,” he added. “She did everything they asked her to do as a 2-year-old. She had 2-year-old speed. That’s what people are looking for these days and she could cross with a lot of sires.”
McGibson, a multiple-stakes-winning 4-year-old mare who has seven victories in 20 races and $181,608 in her career, brought the top price for pacers through the first 144 hip numbers. She was purchased for $135,000 by Fran Azur.