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Yearling Prep

By Les SellnowPhotos By Anne M. Eberhardt

P reparing a Thoroughbred yearling for a select sale is a combination of primping for a beauty pageant and

developing an athletic equine body de-signed for future success on the racetrack.

The primping involves developing a silky hair coat, attractive mane, tail, and fore-lock, along with properly shaped hooves. The body development involves a proper diet and plenty of exercise.

Achieving the end goal of a beautiful, athletic yearling often requires a delicate balancing act. The owner and sales agency want to present a horse that is fit and at-tractive and has grown to the maximum

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First and foremost, additional fat in the diet lowers therisk of gastrointestinal upset caused by consumption oflarge grain meals. Because of the energy density of fat,

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of its genetic potential. However, if that rate of growth is unnaturally high, it can result in developmental orthope-dic disease (DOD) that not only reduces the yearling’s value, but also

can compromise its ability to perform when it reaches racing age. It should be noted that a number of factors often are involved in DOD—which can affect growth plates and joints. It’s more than just overfeeding.

We will take a look at how this balanc-ing act functions; examining it through the eyes and experiences of individuals in Kentucky and California who have handled thousands of sale yearlings, sometimes over multiple generations on one farm.

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A prime source of information in Ken-tucky is Taylor Made Farm, which pres-ents 500-600 yearlings at auction each year. Some of the yearlings are foaled at the farm, primarily out of mares owned by clients. Others are brought to the farm for the final 60 days or more of preparation. Still others are prepared by their owners, who follow specific guide-lines generated by Taylor Made. At sale time, the owners convey the yearlings to the sales venue, where staff members from Taylor Made take over for the actual presentation.

About 35-40% of the yearlings pre-sented at select sales fall into that latter category, according to Mark Taylor, vice president of public sales at Taylor Made. Many of the Taylor Made yearlings ap-

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pear at the three select sales: Fasig-Tipton Ken-tucky in July, Fasig-Tip-ton Saratoga in August, and Keeneland in Sep-tember.

Preparing yearlings for the sales involves much

more than proper diet and an appropriate exercise program. An important part of the preparation involves deciding which sale is the best for that particular year-ling. Or, the decision might be whether

the yearling should even be sold that season. Sale staff members from Taylor Made frequently evaluate the yearlings as they develop, Taylor said, as part of the effort to place the youngster at the best venue.

While all owners who use Taylor Made’s services are provided with sale prepara-tion guidelines, they are not written in stone. Taylor said the following about their introduction to the guidelines:

“Our goal is to help you best prepare your yearling to reach its maximum potential in the sale ring,” Taylor said. “The enclosed preparation plan contains general concepts we practice at Taylor Made. There are many ways to achieve good results, and I realize some of you are working in different climates, grazing conditions, and other factors that differ from ours. The prep plan will give you an idea of what we are trying to achieve.”

Here, in capsule form, is what is in-cluded in the printed guidelines as a preparation plan for yearlings scheduled to go to a summer sale:

Jan. 15—Separate colts from fillies. Bring the yearlings up at 7 a.m. and keep them up until 11. Let them rest on the straw, and if they need to be brushed, brush them, but give them at least three days out of four that they just lay and rest. Watch for chewed tails. Start spray-ing “Raplast” in tails twice weekly. (Re-plast is the trade name for a substance that is caustic to taste and is designed to keep the yearlings from chewing each others’ tails.)

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Feb. 20—Start watching colts. If you have one that is very rough and could hurt another colt, separate him into an-other paddock. Assess health and con-dition of each individual and set out a feeding and care program accordingly. Encourage the yearlings to walk briskly and mannerly to and from paddocks.

March 1—Start on a rice bran oil prod-uct that helps horses better utilize feed nutrients. It also helps build muscle, im-proves hair coat, and can have a calming effect on the horse. However, the guide-lines add, if the horse has a tendency to-ward being fat or has a thick, cresty neck, the product is not recommended.

April 1—Begin training yearlings to show with short five- to 10-minute pe-riods once a week. Longer training than this will bore the young horse, and he might become sour. Always make them walk briskly with a free lead and the han-dler at the shoulder. Do not let the horses drag behind you. If they learn this, it will cost you at the sales. Train manes with braids to lie on the right side of the neck. Use yarn for braiding because it doesn’t cut the hair. Don’t leave braids in for lon-ger than four days.

May 1—Separate the colts into their

own paddocks and begin keeping all yearlings up in the hottest part of the day to prevent sunburn. By May 15, they should be up from 9 a.m. until 6-7 p.m. to protect their coats. Start an exercise program, beginning with 10-15 minutes of daily walking. Start an intense method of grooming. Do not use mane combs on tails; use stiff brushes only. Take knots out of tails with hands. This ensures a long, full tail. Paint soles of feet at least every other day with a good hoof dress-ing. Check to see if the yearling needs shoes. If so, put shoes on front feet only to prevent chipping and just trim hind feet. The final shoeing at the farm should be at least 35 to 40 days prior to the sale. The final shoeing is handled by a Taylor Made farrier either at the sale facility or the farm just before going to the sale. Begin feeding wheat germ oil (3 cc on the feed once a day). Increase walking to 30 minutes daily unless other means of exercise are available. The yearlings at Taylor Made Farm are started in a round

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pen using Monty Rob-erts’ method, exercised five days a week, and hand walked two days. The yearlings are rinsed with room temperature water after exercising. A shampoo bath is given

once each week.June 1—Continue the exercise pro-

gram while increasing the grooming time to get the coat right. Begin getting them used to a Chifney bit while showing and grooming.

July 1—Start backing off lightly on exercise program, unless the exercise is hand walking.

Shipping—Following, verbatim, are the instructions provided for shipping to the sale facility: “When shipping to the sale grounds, health certificates should accompany each yearling. Tranquilize the horse if necessary and the pad halter with sheepskin at the noseband and the poll. Do not snap the horse up on van until he settles down. Make sure to have a handler holding horse until it settles down. Make certain the horse is properly identified with halter tag or with shipping tag. Do not reset yearling shoes unless you have discussed it with us first. We will be glad to have our farrier set them at the sale for you. We will trim ears, bridle paths, pull manes, etc. If you pull the mane, please leave it longer than eight inches and we will even it up. If you trim bridle path, only trim two fingers back from the poll of the horse. If you are comfortable clip-ping the ears, go ahead and do them.”

The guidelines are designed for the normal yearling, and deviations might have to be made for yearlings that, for example, are small and/or underweight.

The steps called for in the guidelines for the Saratoga and Keeneland fall sales are basically the same as the above, but with some of the steps being taken at different dates.

The goal is the same for all of the yearlings, said Charl Koekemoer, a di-visional manager at Taylor Made who is in charge of some yearling preparation. That goal is to present an attractive horse at the sale that has a racehorse look about it.

Koekemoer said sales have become something of a beauty pageant, with con-signors needing to present a horse that has a nicely muscled, racy look, without being overweight. It is highly important the horse has been taught to walk out briskly, Koekemoer said. “The buyer might only see that horse for about 40 seconds,” he explained, and it is impor-tant the yearling makes a good impres-

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An integral part of preparation involves deciding which sale is best for each particular yearling

An important component of sale preparation is primping—developing a silky hair coat and attractive mane, tail, and forelock

sion during that brief span of time.Taylor Made Farm has about 250

broodmares on the premises, with the vast majority of them being owned by clients. Their offspring are candidates for the select yearling sales, and their preparation follows the guidelines shared with other owners. Working with these

yearlings, according to both Taylor and Koekemoer, is ideal because the foals are born on the farm and remain there until sold. That means there are smooth tran-sitions from one phase of preparation to another.

If a yearling is sent to the farm for sale preparation, Taylor said, the goal is

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Once a yearling arrives at a sale, the entire Taylor Made team goes into action. The overall team accounts for about one staff member for each horse consigned at the sale, Taylor said. The staff mem-bers handle myriad duties. A part of the sales staff meets with prospective buyers, touting particular yearlings that they feel

will meet that person’s needs and desires. Other staff present the horses to poten-tial buyers, and still others keep them groomed so they are sleek and shiny. The list goes on.

The Taylor Made approach has been successful, not only with yearlings, but with broodmares, weanlings, and other age Thoroughbreds as well. In 2005, Taylor Made set the world record for the highest-grossing consignment for a sin-gle consignor at Keeneland’s September yearling sale and also at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. In addi-tion, Taylor Made Farm sold Breeders’ Cup Distaff - Presented by Nextel (gr. I) winner and Eclipse Award earner Ashado for $9 million, which established a world record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect. In 2005, Taylor Made Sales Agency was also the leading consignor by gross at the Fasig-Tipton July, Fasig-

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We now turn to Nancy Yearsley of Los Angeles, Calif., and Phyllis Lambert of Chino, Calif.

Yearsley, owner of Yearsley Bloodstock, has offices in Lexington and Los Angeles. She is described as an agent who “sells quality yearlings at sales in both Cali-fornia and Kentucky.” Several years ago, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association asked these two women to summarize their approaches in prepar-

ing yearlings for sale, then posted what they had to say on the CTBA Web site. The CTBA considers the advice proffered then to be just as viable today, and it has kept the information online.

“The first priority in marketing be-gins with a quality product,” Yearsley stated. “When that product is a wean-ling, it has to be assessed for correctness, size, strength, how and where it is being raised, whether it has regular veterinary care and, of course, its breeding.

“Second, having taken the above into consideration, it has to be determined where, or in which market, the foal is likely to fetch the most for its owners, which means that some assessment must be made as to the likely price range.”

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Achieving the end goal of a beautiful,

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delicate balancing act

Proper sale prepara-tion is as vital as the prior raising of the foal, she said.

“Our most success-ful yearlings have been fed well since being foaled,” noted Years-

ley in the CTBA commentary. “Creep feeders are vital to ensure that foals are not pushed away from their grain by mares.”

Under Yearsley’s approach, prospec-tive candidates for yearling sales go through six weeks of beginning sale preparation in February and March. After that, they are turned out until about 90 days before the sale date. Dur-ing the initial preparation period, the youngsters are frequently inspected by representatives of various sales agen-cies.

“The six- to eight-week break before the real sale prep begins does a world of good, and in most cases is an accel-erated growth period,” she said. “We place 80% of our emphasis on fitness and conformation, and 20% on pedi-gree. The best prepared yearlings will always bounce out of their stalls, even at the end of a long, hard day. That is the best marketing tool a consignor can have—strong, correct, and prop-erly prepped yearlings. The product speaks for itself.”

Lambert is a veteran in the sale year-ling preparation field. She began her commentary by listing five specific goals when preparing a yearling for sale. They are:

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ing, feeling, pinching, and poking while maintaining an acceptable pose.

4—A horse that walks out smartly and with the same enthusiasm the 100th time in the day as the first time.

5—A horse with poise and an attitude that acts and reacts with confidence throughout the stress of a sale.

To accomplish these goals, Lambert said a horse must arrive at the prepara-tion facility no less than 75 days, prefer-ably 90 days, before the sale.

“The first thing I teach a young horse to do is to walk on the hot walker,” she wrote. “This provides the first lesson in

patience, while still allowing the young mind to drift and not get bored. Remem-ber, we are fitting the mind as well as the body. My hot walker goes both direc-tions with variable speeds. Initially, with the hot walker being the sole exercise, horses walk 10 to 15 minutes each direc-tion twice per day.”

Next, under her plan, the yearling learns to work on the longe line. After about 30 days, the yearling is on a sched-ule of working on the longe line in the morning for six days a week and walking on the hot walker twice each day. The yearling also is groomed daily.

Things change a bit during the last 30 days prior to a sale with Lambert’s

approach. The exercise regimen is un-changed, but added to the schedule are daily sessions that teach the yearling to strike and hold a pose, lead up and back in a straight line, and turn gracefully in both directions.

The reward for this more intensive work approach is that the yearling gets turned out in the evening or early morning for a few hours. The approach to proper feed-ing, Lambert said, should be designed on an individual basis. b

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