THE US yearling sales season kicked off on Tuesday with a rewarding edition of Fasig-Tipton’s July Sale. The sale’s average and median were the highest since the benchmarks set in 2007.

“It was a strong start to the 2021 yearling sales season,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “We were very encouraged when we went to the farms to inspect yearlings by the quality of horses we were seeing, and certainly the two-year-old sales were encouraging, so we had a lot of optimism.”