Success at the Sales
During the 2000 sales season,
horses consigned by Leprechaun produced over $3 million in total sales,
with their horses producing the co-fastest workouts at sales in Miami,
Texas and at Keeneland in Kentucky. A Leprechaun-consigned horse that
year also worked the fastest three-eighths (:33 4/5) in the history
of the Fasig-Tipton Maryland sale.
A year later, in 2001, 43 Leprechaun horses sold for more than $3.6 million,
putting them in the top 10 nationally, and they were also the country’s
leading consignor of 2-year-old stakes winners.
The beat continued in 2002. Leprechaun was the leading consignor at the Fasig-Tipton
Texas Sale, the fourth leading consignor at Fasig-Tipton Calder, and the total
sales receipts for the year topped the $4 million mark. As for the partnerships,
30 head were purchased for a total of $1,490,500 and those 30 head sold for $3,268,000,
meaning an average gross revenue of almost $60,000 per horse.
Some of 2002's highlights included a Holy
Bull colt purchased for $32,000 and sold for $350,000, a filly by Gone West bought
for $80,000 and sold for $450,000, a Formal Gold colt bought for $67,000 and sold
for $250,000, a Spinning World filly purchased for $48,000 that brought $200,000
and a Wild Rush filly bought for $57,000 and sold for $140,000.
Success at the Track
The horses Leprechaun sells are doing more than making a profit. Saga
Novel is a multiple graded stakes winner in Japan,Tarnished Lady is
a stakes winner and is Grade 1 stakes placed. For Rubies, Fertile,
Goodness, Boston Twist, Smoke Buster, Confiding Winner and Father
Martin are all stakes winners here in the United States. Leprechaun's
2002 graduates have now had 23 winners from 45 starters. In a game
where reputation is of the utmost importance, Leprechaun has horsemen
taking notice.
Bloodstock agent Buzz Chace, for one, has been paying attention. "They
sell nice horses and they seem to be hard working people who know what they’re
doing," said Chace, who knows a good horse when he sees one, having purchased
stars like the brilliant Unbridled’s Song, champion Artax and 2002 Belmont
winner Sarava. This year, Chace will spend more than $10 million dollars at various
auctions on behalf of his clients. "Their horses are well prepared and we've
done well with the ones we've purchased. That colt named Storm Cadet that we bought
for $60,000 at OBS in March is a nice horse. He won the other day by eight at
Saratoga and looks like he could be a stakes horse. They are nice friendly people
who are a pleasure to deal with."
