Dot Morgan

Young horses with potential to be competitive at the major tracks topped the Blooded Horse Fall Mixed Sale held in Delaware, Ohio, November 13^th – 16^th. Buyers from 29 states, five Canadian provinces, England, Norway and Puerto Rico eagerly pored over the 1,417 horse catalogue. The sale was up 7.5 % over last year.

Martin Burton of Cambridge, Maryland purchased the three-year-old trotting filly Buterscotchndaleys and the three year old pacing gelding Buckmaker for $32,000 each. Both stake winners in their respective states of Ohio and Illinois, Burton plans to race the pair at Yonkers and the Meadowlands. Another young Illinois trotter, Kendal Has Panache, was purchased for $31,000 by Barone Serafino of Sparta, New Jersey. Enjoy The Music a stakes-placed two year old daughter of Enjoy Lavec was exported to Europe on a $21,500 bid.

The three-year-old Ohio stakes-placed trotting filly, Ily Lavec moved to the Meadows on a $19,000 bid from Alvira Capone of Eighty Four, Pennsylvania while Ima Cricket Also left the conditioned claiming ranks there and headed for Maine on a $18,500 bid from Carole Swan. Competitive Meadowlands pacer Allamerican Luxor was purchased by Vince Fusco, Jr of Manalapan, New Jersey for $19,000.

Swift Sister, an Artsplace dam of three in 1:51, sold from the Tim Wilson Estate for $21,500. In foal to Make It Brief, the 12 year-old-mare went to Ted Tomson of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Brian Doyle, acting as agent for Bantree Farm in Cork, Ireland, purchased Bob McIntosh’s Artsplace stallion, Dream Work, for $15,000. Doyle also signed the ticket for several mares that are going to England to bolster their emerging pacing industry.