With the help of 13 horses that sold for six-figure prices, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale closed on Monday with a slight increase in total sales and average price despite fewer horses being sold.

Fasig-Tipton reported that 318 of 421 horses offered sold for $6,452,400, a 1.9% increase from 2007, when 371 horses brought $6,332,300.

Average price increased 18.9% to $20,291, compared with $17,068 last year. Median remained unchanged at $7,000.

The buy-back rate decreased slightly from 25.8% last year to 24.5% during the 2008 sale.

During Monday’s final session, 159 of 215 horses offered sold for $3,180,100, down 12.7% from last year’s corresponding session.

John Lossen, agent, went to $320,000 to secure the sale topper on Sunday, stakes winner Placid Lake, from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent.

A half sister to Grade 3-placed multiple stakes winner Smoke Chaser, Placid Lake won the Glendale Handicap on January 5 at Turf Paradise and followed with a third-place finish in the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino Sunshine Millions Filly and mare Turf Stakes on January 26 at Santa Anita Park.

A six-year-old Greenwood Lake mare, Placid Lake is out of stakes winner Fortune Forty Four, by Fortunate Prospect. Sold as a racing or broodmare prospect, Placid Lake has won five of 14 starts and earned $223,550.

Mike Abraham purchased Trickski, a ten-year-old Peteski mare, for $285,000 from the consignment of Legacy Bloodstock, agent for the second-highest price of the sale. Trickski is the dam of 2007 La Brea Stakes (G1) winner Dearest Trickski, who won the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Sprint on January 26.

Trickski won one of 21 career starts and finished third in the 2001 Dixie Miss Stakes at Louisiana Downs. A half sister to stakes winners Tricky Storm and Tricky Band, Trickski is out of the winning Phone Trick mare Explosive Trick.

Harley Clemons, agent, paid $60,000 for a Congaree filly out of stakes winner Mike’s Wildcat, by Forest Wildcat, for the top-priced yearling of the sale on Sunday. The filly was from the consignment of Legacy Bloodstock, agent.

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