Exhi Filly Tops CTHS Alberta Thoroughbred Sale

Hip 53 a chestnut filly by Exhi out of the Forestry mare Eustacia, tops the CTHS Alberta sale at $44,000.

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale brought in smaller bulk numbers during its 2020 renewal on Friday, Sept. 18, but it made up with increased average and median sale prices, led by a filly by Exhi who sold for $44,000 (Canadian).

In total, 40 horses changed hands during Friday’s sale for revenues of $327,400, down 27 percent from the previous year when 67 horses brought $451,300. The average sale price rose 25 percent to $8,395 from $6,736, while the median increased 67 percent to $4,500 from $2,700. The sale’s buyback rate finished at 38 percent, compared with 40 percent in 2019.

Greg Tracy, agent, purchased the sale-topper, an Exhi filly out of the multiple stakes-winning Forestry mare Eustacia, for $44,000.

The second foal out of the dam, the Alberta-bred sale-topper hails from a deep family of stakes producers throughout North America, including stakes-winning second dam Sparkling Pink. Highfield Investment Group consigned the filly, as agent.

True North Stable landed the auction’s second-highest-priced offering, a Kentucky-bred Laoban filly, for $26,500.

The bay filly is out of the stakes-placed Bernardini mare Kimono, and her extended family includes Grade 1 winners Declassify, A Phenomenon, and Seattle Meteor. Stone Ranches Ltd. consigned the filly.

This year’s sale, like all of the country’s sales operated under the CTHS banner, offered online bidding for the first time in 2020 to accommodate those unable to attend due to COVID-19.

Online bids accounted for six of the auction’s successful purchases, totaling $45,900 – roughly 14 percent of the sale’s total gross. The two most expensive online purchases each brought $15,000: an O’Prado Again filly who sold to Shot In the Dark Racing and a Cross Traffic filly who sold to Meadowlake.

To view the auction’s full results, click here.