Ham Stables tops yearling sale at Caymanas Park
Ham Stables topped this year’s yearling sales at Caymanas Park on Sunday, November 15, which also included selling the highest priced colt and the second-highest priced filly.
After the action picked up in a big way of the annual TOBA Yearling Sale, a Traditional chestnut colt and a Saint Appeal chestnut filly were each sold for $2.8m and $2.2m, respectively, to be the highest-priced yearlings among the sexes. The Saint Appeal filly was the first to break into the $2 million club and was bred by Derrick Brandt.
Earlier a Region Of Merit chestnut colt, a half-brother to this year’s Jamaica Derby winner, He’s Really Ok, equalled last year record purchase of $2.7m, while a Traditional bay filly bred at Ham Stables was sold for $2.1m failing by $100,000 to equal the record price of $2.2 m.
The sales which brought an end to a super three days of thoroughbred activities realised a total of $1.6 million with 171 lots of the 190 offered sold. Four lots fetched prices of over $2 million, while 28 were sold for prices over $1 million.
Ham Stables, which sold the highest-priced colt, was the leading farm with the highest dollar figure which was not disclosed. Their top-money yearling by Traditional out of Melissa’s Song (Studdish), is half brother to the joint record holder of 1,000 metres straight Musical Maestro and Poseidon third place finisher in both the Jamaica 2,000 Guineas and the Jamaica Derby.
The high-priced chestnut filly is by Saint Appeal out of Fullyloaded (The Medic). Basically a sprinter, she is the half-brother of Mark To Market, winner of eight races and second in the Red Stripe Dash and third in the Supreme Ventures Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes, both Grade One races.
The second-highest price for colt by Region of Merit out of Ok Mom (Slick Trick) was bred by Patrick Smellie who bred, owned and trained half-brother He’s Really Ok by He’stherealthing winner of the Lotto Classic for the Governor’s Cup, Prime Minister’s Stakes and the Jamaica Derby all Grade One races. No yearling was sold below $100,000.
– Hurbun Williams
