OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—SEPTEMBER 24, 2015—Heritage Place's September Yearling Sale opened Thursday with an increase in both average and median. The opening session saw a $400,000 yearling but remarkably the sale would still have had a significant increase without the high-seller.

"Without the high-seller we saw a 6% increase over last year's opening average," Heritage Place General Manager Spence Kennedy said Thursday night. "Repurchases were up slightly but over all we had great day and have a really nice set of horses coming in the next two sessions," he added.

Thursday's opening session saw 233 head (there were 22 outs) sold for $3,845,900 gross. The first day average was $16,506 and the median was $10,000.

Israel Putino paid $400,00 for Jukebox Jess, a colt by first crop sire One Sweet Jess form the First Down Dash mare Jukebox Dash. DLT Ranch, Agent consigned the half-brother to Grade 2 Hobbs American Futurity winner The Crawfish.

Lethal Fancy, a Pyc Paint Your Wagon half-sister to All American Futurity(G1) winner Jm Miracle sold for $103,000. Vic Hansen purchased the brown filly out of Lethal Delight, by Dean Miracle, from Lazy E Ranch, LLC, Agent for P.K. Thomas.

Brenda Reiswig paid $85,000 for Party Down South, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and producer Party Girl Affair. Granada Farms, Agent for Robert or Karen Nunnally consigned the Corona Cartel filly out of Party Girl Affair, by Streakin La Jolla.

Israel Putino was the leading buyer with the one yearling for $400,000. Double A Ranch paid $187,000 for five head and Rachuan Suarez MVZ purchased 10 yearlings for $120,200.

DLT Ranch, Agent led all consignors and agents by gross with three head for $417,500. Lazy E Ranch, LLC had 13 head gross $319,000 and Lazy E Ranch, LLC, Agent for McColee Land & Livestock sold four head for $139,500.

One Sweet Jess was the leading sale sire (by average with two or more sold) with six had averaging $72,183. Corona Cartel had four yearlings average $44,871 and Pyc Paint Your Wagon saw 11 head average $41,318. High Rate Of Return was the leading first-sale crop sire with seven head average $10,514.

For the preliminary sale results of today's opening session, including hip-by-hip information, CLICK HERE.

The second session will get underway promptly Friday morning at 10 a.m. featuring hips 296 through 590 and Saturday's session includes hips 591 through 885.

Session two results can be found tomorrow night on StallioneSearch.com in our Sales Section after the sale.