Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Courtesy of Blood-Horse.
The digital world moves fast, and Pounce is an example of how efficient the emerging online market for racehorses can be.
Pounce won an allowance optional claimer Feb. 11 at Gulfstream Park. Nine days later she topped the Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale when she sold to Resolute Bloodstock for $370,000. Four days after that she was entered in the Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T), to be run March 2 at Gulfstream.
This all happened in two weeks, without Pounce leaving her trainer Mark Casse’s barn at Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Fla.
“The great thing about her is that we had bidders from all over the world on her,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton’s director of digital sales. “It’s exactly what the website was built for—people everywhere bidding, with less stress on the horses. They stay in their barns, on their routines and feed, with no risks or cost of shipping.”
