During the 2023 Spring sale, 698 horses sold for $90,805,000. On behalf of various clients, Lanni purchased the top offering at each of the auctions’ four sessions. He purchased the sale’s top-priced horse, a filly by Tiz the Law, for $1.9 million Wednesday. His other session toppers included a $775,000 daughter of Caracaro Tuesday and a Nyquist colt for $550,000 Thursday.
During Friday’s final session, he purchased a filly by Nyquist for $850,000 on behalf of Susan and Charles Chu’s Baoma Corp. Lanni came back later in Friday’s session to acquire another colt by Nyquist for $525,000 on behalf of Zedan Racing Stable.
Through the four sessions, Lanni signed the ticket on nine juveniles for a total of $7,010,000. Under the Three Amigos buying name of Bob Baffert clients Mike Pegram, Paul Weitman and Karl Watson, Lanni signed for an additional three lots for $2,175,000.
The $1.9-million sale topper was the only seven-figure juvenile of the 2024 auction, compared to three a year ago, but, this year’s sale did match its 2023 number of horses to sell for $500,000 or more with a final of 28.