The catalogue for the 2026 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale is now available on multiple platforms. It may be viewed or downloaded at lexingtonselected.com and on the Equineline Sales Catalog app. The print catalogue will be mailed next week. To request a print catalogue, visit lexingtonselected.com/year-sale-form.html. The sale will be held as usual at the beautiful […]
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MANALAPAN, NJ — October 15, 2025 — For the second year in a row, New Jersey-eligible harness racing yearlings sold for more than $20 million at the annual Lexington Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky. This year, New Jersey-eligible yearlings brought a total of $20.46 million at the recently concluded five-day event at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion […]
The 2025 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale fifth session begins Friday, Oct 3rd at 7pm ET, (New Zealand, 12pm Saturday 4th October, Australia, 9am Saturday 4th October) at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion in Lexington, Kentucky. You can stay up to date with all the coverage throughout the week long sale right here at Harnesslink with regular […]
Lexington, KY – Dejeuner, a daughter of Walner out of French Cafe, became the highest-priced yearling filly ever purchased at auction when she sold for $1 million to Noel Daley as agent for Winning Key during Monday’s opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. Dejeuner is a half-sister to 2024 Elegantimage Stakes winner […]
Lexington, KY — The Lexington Selected Yearling Sale concluded Friday night (Oct. 4) at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion with the five-day harness racing auction totaling $65.7 million for 911 horses, an average of $72,132. Both figures are the second-best in the history of the event. The record for gross was set last year when 949 horses […]
Lexington, KY — Trotting filly Storybook Love, a daughter of Chapter Seven-Stirling Debutant, sold for $210,000 to Bax Stable as agent for Al Libfeld to top the third session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, held Wednesday (Oct. 2) at Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. Storybook Love is a half sister to 2021 Indiana Sires Stakes champion Shirley Goodness and […]
Lexington, KY — Rani Hanover (Walner), the first foal out of 2020 Hambletonian winner Ramona Hill, was the top seller during Monday’s opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion, purchased for $925,000 by Ken Jacobs. The trotter became the highest-priced yearling filly ever sold at auction, behind only million-dollar trotting colts […]
Today at 1:00 pm, the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale will resume at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavillion, with hip numbers 131 through 364 passing through the harness racing sales ring. You can stay up to date with all the coverage throughout the weeklong sale right here at Harnesslink with regular updates and results live as they […]
The harness racing catalogue for the 2024 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale is now available online. It may be viewed or downloaded at lexingtonselected.com and on the Equineline Sales Catalog app. The print catalogue will be mailed in late August. The yearling auction — which produced the winners of the last five renewals of the $1 million Hambletonian […]
Lexington Selected Sales Co. announced today (April 26) that its mixed harness racing sale has returned for 2024 and will be held Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Fasig-Tipton Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, KY. The sale follows the company’s annual Selected Yearling Sale, which wraps up Friday night, and comes on the eve of the Red […]
Lexington, KY — The five-day Lexington Selected Yearling Sale concluded Friday night at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion having established the harness racing record for gross and second-best average in the history of the event. A total of 949 horses sold for $67.91 million during this year’s five sessions. The previous record for gross was $65.28 million […]
Lexington, KY — Harness racing pacing filly Michelle (Papi Rob Hanover-American Allure) and trotting colt Century Love (Love You-Century Empress) topped Thursday’s (Oct. 5) fourth session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, selling to Joe Holloway and Andy Miller Stable, respectively, at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. Both horses went for $85,000 as the fourth day ended […]
Lexington, KY — Trotting filly Mybffannee (Tactical Landing) topped Wednesday’s buys at the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, going for $435,000 to Nancy Takter as agent, to set the event’s harness racing record for the highest price ever during a third session. She is a full sister to undefeated 2-year-old colt Karl, who is trained by […]
The huge demand for the first crop of harness racing world champion three-year-old Papi Rob Hanover at the opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale was grist for the mill for prominent Newcastle studmaster-breeder Darren Reay. Reay’s Medowie Lodge is offering a filly by the 1:47.2, $927,000-winning son of the great Somebeachsomewhere out of […]
Lexington, KY — Pacing colt Phantomofthenight (Tall Dark Stranger-Lu’s Illusion) and trotting filly French Riviera (Greenshoe-Creamy Mimi) shared top honors at Tuesday’s (Oct. 3) second session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, each selling for $350,000 to lead a group of 239 harness racing horses at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. Phantomofthenight, who sold to Andrew Harris […]
Ola Yoder, the founder and owner of the uber-successful Kountry Wood Products in Nappanee, IN has put the same amount of effort, forethought, and savvy into his harness racing breeding program that he has into his cabinetry business, and it is paying off. Yoder’s list of broodmares and stallion investments reads like a “who’s who” […]
Lexington, KY — After already reaching record-high territory in gross on Thursday, the five-day Lexington Selected Yearling Sale concluded Friday (Sep. 7) at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion with a new mark for average at $73,690. This year’s average represented a 12.1-percent increase over the previous record of $65,687 established last year. Seven yearlings sold for […]
Lexington, KY — Female trotter Epoch was the top seller at Monday’s (Oct. 3) first session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, going for $725,000 to Diamond Creek Farm, to help propel the annual event to a record-smashing start at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion. The five-day harness racing sale opened with 122 horses selling for a […]