Jerry Cutrona went to $65,000 to purchase COZZENE’SAFFAIR (Black Tie Affair
[Ire]) at Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton Texas December Mixed Sale held at Lone Star Park
in Grand Prairie, Texas. Consigned by Lane’s End Texas, agent, for Star Valley Thoroughbreds, LLC,
as Hip No. 36, the nine-year-old sales-topping
mare is out of stakes winner Cozzene’s Flite (Cozzene), and is a full
sister to stakes-placed winner Balboa Park.
Cozzene’saffair won three of 30 starts and $74,911, including the 2000 Jiffy Lube S.
at Sam Houston Race Park. She has
produced two foals — a yearling colt by Open Forum and a weanling colt by Valid
Expectations. She is currently in foal to Congaree on a February 26 cover.
The gray mare was purchased for $20,000 at the 1997 Keeneland
September Yearling Sale. She fetched $50,000 as an OBS February two-year-old in
training.
AMERICAN GAL (American Standard) brought the second-highest price, selling to
Turf Express for $40,000. Consigned by Lane’s End Texas, agent, as Hip 14,
the 12-year-old mare is out of the winning Exceller mare Playground Queen. American Gal hails from the same female family as Good Behaving (Ambehaving),
winner of the 1971 Wood Memorial and Gotham S., and multiple stakes winner Chart
Topper (Groovy).
The bay mare captured six races from nine starts, including the Larry Lashyn
Saskatoon Futurity, and earned $69,910. She has produced four offspring, including
multiple stakes winner Front Nine (Jules), and is currently pregnant to Ecton
Park on a March 25 cover.
Prior to Sunday, American Gal exchanged hands twice through public auction,
most recently for $6,000 at the 1997 Arkansas Winter Mixed Sales.
A total of 157 horses sold for an aggregate $607,400, a decline of 26.4
percent from 2004 when 180 horses sold for $825,300. The average price
dropped 15.6 percent, from $4,585 to $3,869 while the median price fell 23.1 percent,
from $2,600 to $2,000. The number of horses listed as not sold increased from 59
to 88.