CTHS Alberta Sale! Find Your Future Star!

The 2019 CTHS Alberta Thoroughbred Sale will be held at Westerner Park in Red Deer on Friday, September 13th. 129 quality horses including 119 Alberta bred yearlings were catalogued at press time.

The sale will take place between the end of the inaugural Century Mile Thoroughbred meet just south of Edmonton and the opening of the Century Downs Thoroughbred meet in Balzac with the Alberta Breeders’ Fall Classic following on Sunday, September 15th.

Buyers will have an exceptional opportunity to choose from an extensive variety of sire lines among the yearlings on offer. Alberta sires include Bench the Judge, Cape Canaveral, Charming Assassin, Declassify, Exhi, Gayego, Gotcha Gold, Heavenly Chorus, Imperialism, It’s No Joke, Mank, Omega Code, O’Prado Again, Schramsberg and Teeman. Other sire lines available include Awesome Again, Bodemeister, Can The Man, Commissioner, Creative Cause, Daredevil, Day of Destiny, Fed Biz, Finality, Flat Out, Gemologist, Giant Gizmo, Gio Ponti, Girolamo, Graydar, Hit I a Bomb, Jimmy Creed, Justin Phillip, Liaison, Medal Count, Milwaukee Brew, Mineshaft, Noble Mission, Overanalyze, Oxbow, Palace, Paynter, Reload, Revolutionary, Run Away and Hide, Shackleford, Shakin It Up, Silver Max, Smarty Jones, Tale of the Cat, Temple City, Texas Red, Tizbud, Tizway, Vancouver (AUS), Verrazano and Wicked Strong.

Buyers have an opportunity to purchase a colt by O’Prado Again, sire of the 2018 CTHS Alberta $53,000 selling yearling from this leading consignor. A half-brother to the successful Alberta runner Smart Fix ($134,095) is on offer out of Char’s Still Here. A selection of yearlings by the Langfuhr son, Imperialism, are catalogued. Imperialism currently sits in seventh spot on the 2019 Bloodhorse Leading Canadian Sire List, the only stallion in western Canada in the top ten. Two yearlings are consigned by the Storm Cat son, Schramsberg, sire of Canadian Juvenile winner Remarkable Vintage and Fall Classic Distaff winner, Our Sammi. A two year old gelding is on offer by the Eclipse award winning Elusive Quality son, Smarty Jones in addition to a two year old filly by the proven Grade 1 sire and Storm Cat son, Tale of the Cat.

Come and select your future star from this strong line up of Thoroughbreds entered in this annual sale!

Owners of Alberta bred runners have the opportunity to participate in the Thoroughbred Breed Improvement Program which offers over $950,000 in Owners Breeding Support to owners of horses foaled in Alberta.

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS) recently announced the expansion of the Western Sales Stakes series to include Ontario thus making the series a truly Canadian initiative. This new CTHS Canadian Sales Stakes Series has annual purses totaling over $1 Million. As a result of this program, any Canadian-Bred yearling passing through any CTHS yearling sale as of 2018 will now be eligible for the Sales Stakes in any Province. The expansion of the series was ratified by the CTHS boards in the Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. The program is intended to truly celebrate the Canadian-Bred and provide increased incentives for buyers to attend and buy at all the Canadian sales. In addition, it is anticipated that the series should increase prices at Canadian sales which will be beneficial for all consignors. More importantly, the CTHS believes that the field sizes in the Sales Stakes will improve as a result of the increased eligibility. The new Sales Stakes program is designed to build a Canadian Series and promote the Canadian-Bred Thoroughbred.

View the CTHS Alberta web site at www.cthsalta.com for more details on the sale and catalogue.