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 VOLUME 5  -  JUNE 15, 2003

 

SUMMER SALE SEASON IN FULL SWING

Paramount Consignment Online

 

The summer sale season has now arrived.  Pat Costello is virtually a blur as he zigzags from farm to farm making final inspections on the Paramount Sales consignment entries.  Riding high on the success of last year's graduates, we are confident the yearlings offered this year are of equal or greater quality as the last.  When you walk into the Paramount Sales consignment this year, you could not only be walking among a group of the highest quality yearlings, but you may be walking through a barn of winners, and perhaps stake winners.


All Paramount Sales consignment information is now online at our website www.paramountsales.net or the "enter consignment" link below will take you directly to the current listing of public sales.  The information posted includes a complete listing of the yearlings offered, either catalog pages or proof pages, and updates for each yearling will be available soon.  Updates will be revised weekly and will include information on individuals into the second dam. 

 

 PARAMOUNT SALES GRADUATES UNSTOPPABLE!

Seven Winners From Eight Starters In Their First Start

 

The list of winners from Paramount Sales 2002 graduates continues to grow.  There are now 7 winners from 8 starters all in their first starts.

 

Enthusiasm was the order of the day for Tottenwood Farm, the breeders of BAGITDON'TCHARGEIT, Paramount Sales fifth winner, who broke her maiden May 29th in a five furlong maiden race at Monmouth Park.  After breaking just a beat slowly, the two-year-old DEVIL'S BAG filly wasn't far behind by the half mile pole.  The dark bay opened two lengths in the stretch and finished with a four and three-quarter length view of daylight to the second place finisher.  The five furlongs was run in :59 4/5 seconds.  Congratulations to Tottenwood Farm, and BAGITDON'TCHARGEIT's owner and trainer, Michael Gill and Gamaliel Vazquez.

 

Paramount Sales' sixth winner entered the winner's circle at Woodbine on the last day of May.  MAPLE SYRPLE, a two-year-old AMERICAN CHANCE filly dusted her rivals by eight lengths running four and a half furlongs in :52 1/5 seconds.  The filly cashed in on the win taking her part of a very lucrative $60,600 maiden purse.  Congratulations to owner, Team Valor, and trainer Mark Casse.  Reports following the race eluded that MAPLE SYRPLE may be a star in the making.

 

BERRY BERRY became winner number seven to step into the winner's circle on June 1st.  The dark bay daughter of DEFRERE tallied one in the win column after coming from off the pace to win by a neck.  Congratulations to the connections of BERRY BERRY, owner Hunt Stables and trainer Larry Hunt, and to the filly's seller, Drumkenny Farm.

Read the Charts

[To read the charts, please click on a horse listed below]

 

CONGRATULATIONS

 

Paramount Sales would like to congratulate all of the connections of Paramount's winning graduates:

 

Horse Owner Trainer Buyer Seller
BERRY BERRY Hunt Stables Larry Hunt Hunt Stables, Inc. Drumkenny Farm
MAPLE SYRPLE Team Valor Mark Casse Mark Casse, Agt. Agent VIII
BAGITDON'TCHARGEIT Michael Gill G. Vazquez Straightaway Farm Tottenwood Farm
ANTONIUS PIUS Michael Tabor Aidan O'Brien Demi O'Byrne Castleton-Lyons
EAST BAY Mike Rutherford Dallas Stewart Bobby Powell The Lads
HECKLE Dogwood Stable Todd Pletcher Cot Campbell Gaines-Gentry
PARISIENNE Cameron Express Franck Mourier Dr. Chatelan Keith McKinney

 

THOROUGHBRED TIMES  REPORTS:

 Paramount Sales a Top 5 Sales Consignor

 

A story entitled "On The Front Line" appearing in the June 7th edition of The Thoroughbred Times detailed statistics from the 2002 bloodstock sales.  Paramount Sales was profiled in the article which stated Paramount was the 4th leading yearling consignor and the fifth leading consignor overall for 2002. 

 

In what the Times article described as a "meteoric rise to the top echelon of North American-based consigors of Thoroughbreds to public auction", Paramount Sales sold 225 horses for a $18.2 million gross. 

 

Further details from the 2002 sale season are:

 

1)

4th leading consignor in the world.

2)

Sold top yearlings, consigning 12 individuals for a total of more than $6 million.

3)

Sold $1.5 million dollar colt by DANZIG - CATCHASCATCHCAN (GB) for Castleton Lyons.

4)

Leading consignor by average in the 2002 September Select Sale [for consignors selling 10 or more yearlings]. Paramount yearlings averaged $588,181 in the 2003 Select September Sale.

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Below are deadlines quickly approaching for the fall sales.  Please contact Pat Costello if you have any further questions or would like to nominate a horse for any other sale venue.

Sale Date Entry Deadline 

Consignor Deadlines

(PDF format)

 Sale Venue
Sep. 29-Oct. 1 '03 July 11, 2003  

Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic-Eastern Fall Ylgs Timonium
Nov. 2-14, 2003 August 1, 2003  

Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale

Lexington, KY

Oct. 20-21, 2003 August 18, 2003

 

Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings

Lexington, KY

Click here for remaining sale deadlines in a printable format.

 

AND THE WINNER IS . . .

 

We'd like to announce that the May winner of our $50 gift certificate giveaway is Jackie Lennox from Pin Oak Stud, Versailles, KY. Jackie will be having dinner at Nadine's in Palomar Center, Lexington with our compliments.  Thank you for entering and enjoy your evening on us.

 
RACING

Each month, we have been providing a list of the upcoming Grade 1 races.  Below are the Grade 1 races scheduled for the upcoming month. We'd like to wish everyone the best of racing luck.

June 21, 2003 Ogden Phipps H. - G1 Belmont Park
June 21, 2003 Vanity H. - G1 Hollywood Park
June 28, 2003 Mother Goose S. - G1 Belmont Park
July 4, 2003 Prioress S. - G1 Belmont Park
July 5, 2003 Suburban H. - G1 Belmont Park
July 5, 2003 Triple Bend BC - G1 Hollywood Park
July 5, 2003 United Nations H. - G1 Monmouth Park
July 13, 2003 Hollywood Gold Cup - G1 Hollywood Park
July 19, 2003 Coaching Club American Oaks - G1 Belmont Park

 

Click here for the race schedule in PDF document format.

 

READ AND WIN

To enter Paramount's giveaway for a $50 gift certificate to Nadine's for the month of June, click on "MONTHLY NEWSLETTER" in the newsletter header. You will be prompted to send an email back to our office.  Please include your name and a phone number at which you can be reached should you win.  We will draw one name from the emails we receive each month.  We'll publish the name of the winner in next month's newsletter.  Good luck!

 

[If this link does not prompt your email to send us your entry, please send an email to us at the email address below.  Include "My entry for the $50 gift certificate" in the subject line].

 

Paramount Sales

Pat Costello, Managing Officer 

1025 Monarch St Ste B201
Lexington, KY 40513-1932

 

(859) 296-6455 paramount@paramountsales.net

 

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