Average up at Harrisburg

The opening session of the Standardbred Horse Sales Company’s annual Harrisburg yearling auction took place Monday and generated an average price of $54,178, up almost nine percent from the 2005 opening session.

This year 356 yearlings were sold in the first session, which got underway at 10 a.m. and concluded just before 8 p.m. Along the way 51 yearlings brought prices of $100,000 or more, up from the 46 which generated six-figure prices in last year’s opening session.

The sale topper was hip number 268, an Andover Hall filly out of Milestone Hanover who brought $375,000. The half sister to this year’s stakes winner Monkey Bones was purchased by Jeffrey Snyder. Snyder also paid big prices for two other yearlings, buying a Conway Hall half sister to Pampered Princess for $350,000 and a full sister to Bettor’s Delight for $130,000.

Trainer Rick Rick Plano, who races at Cal Expo in Sacramento, Calif., was also a big buyer. Plano bought four $100,000 yearlings as agent for J. Paul Reddam. Reddam, who got his introduction to horse racing by first attending harness races at Windsor Raceway, won the $2.7 million Breeders Cup Turf with Red Rocks on Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Three yearlings brought prices of $300,000 or more. In addition to the two yearlings Snyder bought with $300,000-plus bids, Anderson Farms bought the Artsplace half sister to Cabrini Hanover, who they campaigned , for $325,000.

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