Dean A. Hoffman
She was the ultimate Standardbred Cinderella.
Her name was Fresh Yankee and she went through the sale ring at Harrisburg in 1964 for a mere $900. By the time she retired, she had earned nearly $1.3 million.
You won’t find many $900 yearlings at the Harrisburg sale next week, but there will surely be bargains.
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CC’s Chuckie T (4), winner of the Peter Haughton Memorial in 2002, was only a $9,000 yearling when he went through the ring at Harrisburg.
Consider the standout trotter Go Get Lost, an international star in the late 1980s. He went through the Harrisburg sale ring in 1985 for a mere $6,500 and wound up earning $1,142,136. By any definition, he was a bargain.
So was the filly Card Trick Hanover. She was hammered down for $4,500 five years ago and left the track with a 1:49.1 mark and $674,717 in the bank.
Starter Hanover was an overlooked $2,700 colt when he sold in 1995, but he proved to be a bargain when he earned $570,413.
Open the black Harrisburg catalog for 2005 and you’ll find 1,049 yearlings cataloged to sell. Among that group, there are sure to be some true bargains. The trick, of course, is finding them.
Moira Fahy and Joseph Yurigan found a bargain when they paid just $6,500 for Applecider Hanover in 1999. They enjoyed watching the SJ’s Photo filly make more than a half-million at the races. Applecider Hanover is now a member of the elite broodmare band owned by Bill Weaver of New Jersey and her son Spiked Cider by Yankee Glide is selling at Harrisburg on Monday.
CC’s Chuckie T, winner of the Peter Haughton Memorial in 2002, was only a $9,000 yearling when he went through the ring at Harrisburg the previous autumn.
Everyone knows that a yearling sale is a giant crapshoot and that many yearlings—regardless of price—that don’t pay their way. Still, what fascinates buyers is trying to find those special horses that will make headlines at the races.
Click here to view a list that shows yearlings that sold for $10,000 or less and earned more than $200,000. Read it over and you’ll be convinced that bargains indeed abound at Harrisburg.