8/23/2026
The 58th Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association (WTBOA) Summer Sale is slated for Tuesday, August 25, at the WTBOA Sales Pavilion located on beautiful Emerald Downs Racetrack in Auburn, Washington. This year’s auction showcases 74 yearlings, and one broodmare who is being offered as a three-in-one package.
Keeneland Breeders’ Cup Opportunity
The WTBOA Sale will begin at 1:00 p.m. with an opportunity to bid on a two-ticket package to the 2026 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, being held this year on October 30 and October 31 at historic Keeneland Race Course.
The package features Clubhouse GA tickets, providing unreserved access to the first floor of the climate-controlled clubhouse, the outdoor Clubhouse Lawn, the adjacent track rail viewing areas, as well as general access to Grandstand levels 1 through 3 and the paddock grounds. A $500 airfare voucher and hotel accommodations for three nights are also included in the package.
The winning bid is tax deductible and will benefit the many programs sponsored by the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation.
Star Sale Runners
The 2026 Longacre Mile card saw a trio of sales graduates strike gold! Adios Jojo took the prestigious Mile and Mattie Goincoastal and Coal Front Kid won both juvenile stakes that were offered on the August 16 Emerald Downs card.
Among the 45 colts and 29 fillies being offered are full or half-siblings to 2025 Washington champions Precise Timing, Saleen G T and Stay Sassy; previous state champions Chai, Freightline, Koron, Miss Prospector, Papa’s Golden Boy, Special Diva and The Big Wam; and additional stakes winners Big City Lights (G3), A View from Above, Brilliant Bird, Dynamic Secret, For You Only, Gold Crusher, Grease Missile, Ima Margarita Girl, It’s Turbo, Miss Valor, Runnin Out of Days, Squeeze Me and This Great Nation.
Top Class Sires
This year’s sale features yearlings sired by not one, but two Dubai World Cup (G1) winners, Country Grammer (first crop) and Mystic Guide; Preakness Stakes (G1) victor Early Voting; and additional Grade 1 winners Clubhouse Ride, Eight Rings, Mo Forza, Smiling Tiger (the final crop for this past WTBOA Sale graduate) and Straight Fire. Among the other good California-based stallions with yearlings are Danzing Candy, Editorial and Sir Prancealot (Ire). Yearlings by prominent Washington sires Alternation (represented by his first Washington crop), Barkley, Coast Guard, Gold Rush Dancer and Private Gold are featured.
Alternation leads all sires with 18 yearlings. Coast Guard has seven, Mo Forza has six and Barkley and Editorial five each.
Grand Dams
On the female side of the pedigree pages, of the 74 dams, 15 were stakes winners (including three Washington champions) and another three were stakes-placed. So far, the first dams have produced 30 stakes winners, led by 11 champions, and another 18 stakes-placed runners. Twenty-two of the mares will have their first or second foal go through the sales ring, and of those, one is a champion, four are siblings to champions, five others are stakes winners and four other stakes-placed runners.
A Fashionable Broodmare
The lone broodmare, Champ of Pagne, is a winning daughter of 15-time leading Oregon champion sire and successful damsire Harbor the Gold. She is a half-sister to $711,960 six-time stakes winner and three-time graded stakes-placed Big City Lights and Grade 2-placed Exchange Vows. From a family of champions, six-year-old Champ of Pagne is being offered bred on an April cover date to Straight Fire, and her first foal, a filly by Dynamic Impact, sells at side.
To Order a Catalog, Bid or View the Sale
For more information or to request a sales catalog, please call (253) 288-7878 or e-mail maindesk@wtboa.com. The catalog pages, updated weekly (both female lines and sires) by The Jockey Club Information Systems, are available for viewing on the WTBOA website at 2026 WTBOA Summer Yearling & Mixed Sale – Washington Thoroughbred Breeders & Owners Association.
You can also sign-up for the sales catalog iPad app at equineline.com. Photos and videos of many of the yearlings are now available on the WTBOA website.
All interested bidders are reminded that credit must be established prior to sale time. In addition, online bidders need to pre-register at https://wtboa.auctionmarts.com.
Phone bidding is also available if you are unable to attend the sale in person. All bidders are strongly encouraged to establish credit and/or pre-register for the sale no later than 48 hours prior to sale time.
The WTBOA also offers a “View Only” feature on our online bidding platform https://wtboa.auctionmarts.com while the sale is running.
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