Fast class pacer Layton Hanover sold for six figures in an online auction on Thursday afternoon, May 9.
The five-year-old Captaintreacherous-Livin Life gelding, who earned his third straight win of the season on Monday at Yonkers Raceway for the Travis Alexander stable, was purchased for $164,384 by Mike Hall of Delaware via onGait.com.
A former Pennsylvania Sires Stakes winner and dead-heat runner-up in last year's Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup, Layton Hanover has put together a career record reading 13-9-11 from 53 starts with just over $410,000 in purse earnings. He took his lifetime mark of 1:50.1 winning a sophomore sires stakes event over Harrah's Philadelphia. The pacer was formerly owned by Fiddler's Creek Stables, D Elegance Stable Ix, T L P Stable and Carmen Iannacone.
Also selling this week via onGait, the Courtly Choice filly Violetta Blue Chip p,3,1:55.1h-'24 was purchased for $83,562 by Ken Jacobs of New York from the partnership of Randy Bendis and Pollack Racing LLC; Overboard 3,1:53.4, a four-year-old Father Patrick mare, was sold by John McKeon Jr. for $69,863 with Diamond Creek Farm's Adam Bowden the high bidder; and the Ontario-based Freaky Feet Pete three-year-old gelding Dont Freak Out p,2,1:54s was purchased for $53,562 by JD Perrin of Ohio from Brock MacLellan and Dale Spence.
(With files from onGait)