TCA Stallion Season Auction set for next week
The 22nd annual Thoroughbred Charities of America Select Stallion Season Auction, will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the Keeneland Entertainment Center in Lexington, Ky. The cocktail party-style event will begin at 6:30 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres and dinner followed by the Select Season Auction at 8:15 p.m.
The auction will feature seasons to 26 stallions including:
Arch
Bernardini*
Broken Vow*
Discreetly Mine
English Channel
First Samurai (Live Foal)
Giant’s Causeway
Gio Ponti
Girolamo*
Hard Spun*
Harlan’s Holiday
Kitten’s Joy (Live Foal)
Lonhro*
Malibu Moon (Live Foal)
Medaglia d’Oro*
More Than Ready
Quality Road
Scat Daddy
Sidney’s Candy
Smart Strike
Speightstown
Stormy Atlantic
Street Sense*
Super Saver
Tale of the Cat (Live Foal)
Uncle Mo
Stallions marked with an “*” indicate a free return to the stallion in 2013 should the mare not get in foal or not produce a live foal.
In addition to the stallion seasons, auction items will include a weekend stay in the WinStar Farm guest house; a Triple Crown ticket package; a sports package featuring tickets to the Breeders’ Cup, NASCAR Nationwide Series, UK Basketball and the Indianapolis 500; winner’s choice of select John Deere equipment; Horsemen’s Package featuring sales representation services, boarding, vanning and surgical services; a Dominican Republic vacation; a New York City getaway; and two tickets to the “big football game” in Indianapolis on February 5. Telephone bidding will be permitted on non-season auction items. Please call for details. The Select Stallion Season Auction will also feature a Diamond Champagne Raffle sponsored by Shelia Bayes Fine Jewelers.
Michael Blowen of Old Friends will be honored with the TCA Industry Service Award and Fasig-Tipton will be honored with the TCA Leadership Award.
The Select Stallion Season Auction will be preceded by a telephone auction to be held from Wednesday, January 4 through Friday, January 6 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST. The majority of TCA’s seasons will be sold during the telephone auction with the select seasons going into the live auction on January 7. The telephone auction hotline is (859) 276-4989. For a complete list of seasons or to purchase tickets for the Select Stallion Season Auction please visit www.tca.org or call (859) 276-4989.
Select Stallion Season Auction sponsors include Brushwood Stable, Rosenberg Thoroughbred Consulting, Candyland Farm, PBI Bank, Lael Stable, Provations Group, OfficeMax, Shelia Bayes Fine Jewelers, Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, L.V. Harkness and Blood-Horse Publications.
