ELiTE Completes First Keeneland September Sale

September 22, 2023

ELiTE sold 11/13 horses offered for an average of $164,545 at the 2023 Keeneland September Sale. ELiTE closed out the sale with four horses sold from four offered in Book 4 Session 2. HIP 2500, a Liam’s Map colt who sold for $280,000 was the third highest priced yearling of the day. Thank you to our clients […]

Saratoga Yearlings Go 3-for-3

August 9, 2023

ELiTE’s first foray on the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga scene was a success, resulting in a 100% clearance rate for our sellers. The consignment topper was a Curlin filly out of Enchanted Rock who sold for $450,000 to Mike Ryan as agent. The filly, bred by Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm, is a half-sister to G1W Verrazano. […]

Front Run The Fed Surges Late to Win Van Clief Stakes

July 28, 2023

ELiTE Grad FRONT RUN THE FED surged down the stretch and split rivals to win the Van Clief Stakes at Colonial Downs for the second consecutive year. He was purchased out of ELiTE’s 2021 Fasig-Tipton July HoRA draft by George Sharp.

EliTE Leads Fasig-Tipton July HoRA Sale

July 15, 2023

ELiTE led the way at the Fasig-Tipton July Horses of Racing Age Sale with 35 of 37 horses sold grossing $5,440,000. This accounted for 39% of the entire sale’s gross. Additionally, ELiTE sold 6 out of the top 9 lots HIP 596 FREE LOOK, a G2-placed daughter of TAPIT was the sales co-topper, selling for $550,000 […]

ELiTE Leads Keeneland April Horses of Racing Age Sale

June 1, 2023

ELiTE Sales led all consignors by average and gross for the 2023 Keeneland April Horses of Racing Age Sale, led by HIP 55 PROMISE ME A RIDE, who sold for $400,000.

Elite to Enter Yearling Consignment Business

February 23, 2023

Elite Sales, the Thoroughbred consignment business of Liz Crow and Bradley Weisbord, will begin selling yearlings in 2023, adding to their existing business of breeding and racing stock, according to the pair. “Elite Sales launched in 2017 with the goal of being the number-one consignor of horses of racing age and broodmares/broodmare prospects,” said Weisbord. […]

Duvet Day Flies Home to Score in Astra Stakes

January 25, 2023

2022 Keeneland Horses of Racing Age graduate DUVET DAY displayed a scintillating turn of foot and exploded through the stretch to win the Astra Stakes at Santa Anita by 1 ¼ lengths for owners Burt and Jane Bacharach, and Richard Schatz.

Bromans Go Off Script in Bidding for Ack Naughty

January 13, 2023

  Ack Naughty  didn’t fit the normal standards that Chester and Mary Broman look for at a sale; but when the mare is in foal to Upstart   and has a son pointing towards the Kentucky Derby (G1) — exceptions will be made. When the opportunity to purchase the 10-year-old mare consigned as Hip 420B during Day 1 of […]

Five Elite Graduates Compete in New Year’s Weekend Stakes Races

December 30, 2022

A total of five Elite Sales graduates are entered in stakes races this weekend, beginning with last out stakes winner HYBRID ECLIPSE, who runs in today’s Carousel Stakes at Laurel Park for The Elkstone Group. Tomorrow, FRONT RUN THE FED, who won the Van Clief Stakes at Colonial Downs in July, heads to Santa Anita […]

Ack Naughty, Dam of G2 Los Al Futurity Winner, Featured in Elite Keeneland January Draft

ACK NAUGHTY, a multiple stakes-placed daughter of Afleet Alex whose second foal, Practical Move, won the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) by 3¼ lengths on December 17, has been supplemented to the Keeneland January Sale with ELiTE. She sells as Hip 420B during the first session of the sale on Monday, January 9th, for owners Madaket […]

ELiTE Makes Tattersalls December Mare Sale Debut

December 2, 2022

ELiTE Sales launched its first venture into the European sales market this year at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. The two-horse consignment consisted of two fillies with reputable European form. G2P Nazuna sold for 280,000 GNS on behalf of owners Wachtel, Barber, Deutsch, and Pantofel. PE Equine Management signed the ticket. G3W/G2P King’s Harlequin sold […]