Resolve colt tops London Classic Yearling Sale day one

Seelster Farms’s Heist Seelster (Resolve) drew a $165,000 winning bid for the highest price tag of the 94 harness racing horses sold on the first day of the London Classic Yearling Sale on Tuesday (Oct. 18) at the Western Fair Agriplex.

The bay colt, consigned as hip number 38, is out of Angus Hall mare Hollywood Beauty. The mare won an Ontario Sires Stakes Gold on track and has foaled stakes winners Hemi Seelster, Henderson Seelster, and Heineken Seelster. She has produced just shy of $1.5 million in progeny earnings. Gestion Zane of Laval made the winning bid and will bring home Heist Seeslter.

Muscone (Muscle Mass) was the next offering to fetch a six digit bid. The filly, consigned as hip 69 for Dean and Ashley Wilson, sold for $110,000. She is the first foal from Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots champion Jangone (Johnny William), who retired in 2019.

Liege Seelster, by Bettors Delight out of the elite Camluck broodmare Los Angeles, was the first pacer to rake in more than $100,000. Mac Nichol of Burlington bought the Seelster Farms colt – hip 73 – for $125,000. Los Angeles produced North America Cup and Breeders Crown champion Thinking Out Loud as well as West Of L A, who went on to throw millionaires Somewhere In L A and double Ontario Sires Stakes champion L A Delight. Overall, the mare’s offspring have earned more than $2.7 million.

Another Dean and Ashley Wilson consignment brought six figures minutes later, as Gregg McNair of Guelph bought hip 77, Munchie Muscles, for $122,000. The Muscle Mass colt is out of Striking Sahbra mare Lady Bling, who won the City of London final at three and produced New York Sire Stakes division winner Im The Muscle. Munchie Muscles is the fifth foal from that mare.

Salem Seelster, hip 84, became the third Muscle Mass progeny and third Seelster Farms product to sell for more than $100,000. Determination of Montreal took home the filly with a bid of $110,000. She is the second foal from unraced Archangel mare Salem Seelster, who is out of Topcat Hall, the dam of Dan Patch Award-winner and millionaire JL Cruze.

Scott McEneny was responsible for the final six-figure purchase of the day. He spent $100,000 on Century Komodo, a Bettors Delight filly and the first foal out of Captaintreacherous mare Michelons Filly. The dam won multiple Kindergarten and Pennsylvania Sires Stakes legs. Century Spring Farms sold the colt, listed as hip 96.

All sales on day one totaled $3,745,000 for an average per yearling of $39,840. Trotting colts were the most lucrative division, averaging $54,777 per horse. The top consignor of day one was Seelster Farms with 24 yearlings bringing in an average of $63,130.

The remaining 94 yearlings will go through the ring tomorrow, beginning at 12:00 p.m. EDT.

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by Nicholas Barnsdale, for Harnesslink