AUCTION SALES IN NORTH AMERICA
After four consecutive years of gains through 2006 in which the total dollar volume of purchases increased 64.6%, the North American Thoroughbred auction market in 2007 pulled back from the record level of the year before as total gross sales declined 2.5%. Gross sales fell in three of the four principal categories; only the broodmare gross, up 11.1% in 2007, showed an increase against prior year results. Against 2006 returns, last year’s gross sales for weanlings fell 13.9%, 2-year-olds declined 11.1% and yearlings dipped 3.0%.
Auction Sales in North
America
Auction Weanlings 1980-2007
Auction Yearlings 1980-2007
Auction 2-Year-Olds 1980-2007
Auction Broodmares 1981-2007
2007 SALES RESULTS |
SOLD
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GROSS SALES
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AVERAGE PRICE |
PERCENT CHANGE
2006-07 1997-07 |
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Weanlings |
1,954 | $86,770,649 | $44,407 | -10.9 | +38.5 | |
Yearlings |
10,160 | $561,846,659 | $55,300 | -3.2 | +44.1 | |
2-Year-Olds |
3,122 | $193,075,244 | $61,843 | -11.5 | +42.4 | |
Broodmares |
4,565 | $320,235,584 | $70,150 | +14.6 | +79.2 | |
Horses of Racing Age & Broodmare
Prospects |
1,332 | $70,919,670 | $53,243 | -20.3 | +191.2 | |
Stallions & Stallion
Shares or Seasons |
82 | $1,659,800 | $20,241 | -27.6 | +8.4 | |
| TOTAL | 21,215 |
$1,234,507,606 |
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