A Louisiana-bred filly from the first crop of three-time Grade I winner Flat Out (Flatter) fetched a final bid of $110,000 from Keith and Ginger Myers' Coteau Grove Farm to top Tuesday's Equine Sales Company of Louisiana Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age in Opelousas. The topper represented a new record price for the auction, which also saw the average increase by 37.1% to $20,300, while the median price of $13,000 represented a 13% gain.
Al Pike's Pike Racing consigned eight horses as agent and offered the sale's top three juveniles. The Myerses, who have built a formidable operation in a short period of time at Coteau Grove, were extended to $110,000 for hip 29, the first foal out of Langsyne (Langfuhr), a daughter of MSP New Hope Seven (Carson City) and a half-sister to Requite (Warrior's Reward), a stakes winner and runner-up in the GII Amsterdam S. The further female family includes prominent sire Hard Spun (Danzig).
Flat Out is already the sire of Keeneland maiden winner Flat Drunk and has been represented by an additional three six-figure horses at this year's juvenile sales.
Coteau Grove is the breeder of the day's second-dearest lot, a first-crop colt by Vioence, who was hammered down to Bowling Bloodstock for $100,000. The Myerses acquired the colt's stakes-winning dam for $67,000 carrying hip 45 in utero and paid that bill when reselling the foal to Albert Davis for $85,000 at Keeneland November in 2015. The colt's second dam was a half-sister to the talented turf runner License Fee (Black Tie Affair {Ire}).
“I think we have continued to improve the quality of this sale and that shows in the results this year,” said Foster Bridewell, sales director. “We are very pleased with the results and are looking forward to our consignor select and open yearling/mixed sales later this year.”
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