Sale

Sales –Continued from page 10tonight and Tuesday during the 97th edition of theFasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings.Mainly they’re looking for answers.Answers to the question of whether all theirhomework, research, experience, business sense,intuition or horsemanship was right and theymade a successful purchase. It’s a question that’sbeen asked for nearly a century on the storied salesgrounds and will continue as long as there’s racinglike what transpired in Saturday’s Whitney or lastweekend’s Haskell.Representatives of Darley and Coolmore, thegames biggest spenders and two of the most powerful,and leading trainers such as Todd Pletcherand Bob Baffert want the answers. Even a legendlike Gai Waterhouse, a Hall of Famer in Australiawho checked out some yearlings Sunday afternoon,wants the answers.Ahmed Zayat was looking for answers twoyears ago when he decided to send a colt he bredby Pioneerof The Nile through the sales process.Zayat got an answer when the market wasn’t allthat receptive and he bought the colt back throughan agent for a hammer price of $300,000. That coltturned out to be American Pharoah, the first winnerof the Triple Crown since 1978 and just the sec-See SALES page 14Hip 39, a Bodemeister filly, looks for a new owner tonight.Tod Marks12 The Saratoga SpecialMonday, August 10, 2015