Weaver Standardbred Farm a first-time seller with nine yearlings
by James Platz
Enos and Lexi Weaver sold for the first time at Lexington as Weaver Standardbred Farm last fall. This week, the husband-and-wife team brings their first yearling consignment to the Standardbred Horse Sales Company yearling auction, offering nine babies raised at their Utica, OH, farm. An expanded broodmare band promises larger Harrisburg consignments in the future.
“We had quite a few yearlings, so we tried to split them up a little bit,” Enos said. “We have a Bar Hopping filly that I thought was a good fit for this sale. We have a Canadian-bred Green Manalishi filly that’s a nice individual. So, we just had a few that would fit this sale and we tried to make a nice number for it.”
The consignment consists of six pacers and three trotters. Bar Hopping filly Hip #191 Dive Bar Blonde will be the first of the group to sell early in Tuesday’s session (Nov. 4). She is a dual-eligible daughter of Cantab Hall mare Shee La, who has produced a pair of winners from two previous foals. Green Manalishi S filly, Hip #344 Song From Heaven shows to be dual eligible on her pedigree page. Her dam, Chapter Seven mare Chapter Heaven, has three winners from four previous foals.
“Overall, we have a pretty good variety,” Lexi said. “The two trotters videoed very well. The Bar Hopping, she’s dual eligible and I believe the last crop, so I would think that they would be sought after this year. She’s a really good conformation filly. She’s definitely our star.”
The other trotting filly is Crazy Wow-sired Gym Crush, Hip #638 in the catalog. She is the first foal from Donato Hanover mare Workout Girl, an eight-time winner in her career.
On the pacing side, Weaver Standardbred will offer fillies by Huntsville (three), Always B Miki, and Bettor’s Delight, as well as a colt by Shadow Play. One of the Huntsville fillies is Hip #268 Shakeyourpeaches, a dual-eligible full-sister to freshman winner Shakeitonthebeach.
“He ended up getting second in the Excelsior final and won two or three legs, so he had a pretty good 2-year-old debut,” Lexi said. “She is a carbon copy, but even bigger than him, which is good because he was a little on the smaller side last year.”
Hip #272 Watch Her Wiggle is a full-sister to freshman winner Johnny Wiggles p, 2, 1:57.3h-’25 while Hip #349 Gym Bunny is a Huntsville first foal from Sportswriter mare CL Sportsextreme, an OSS Grassroots leg winner.
Bettors Delight daughter Waves Of Fortune, Hip #359, is out of Somebeachsomewhere mare Cozy Beach, dam of four winners from five previous foals, with three in 1:54. Hip #606 Always B Deb is a dual-eligible Always B Miki filly from a six-figure winning Bettors Delight mare. Hip #620 Beach Playin, the lone pacing colt in the consignment, is the second foal from a Downbytheseaside mare. The son of Shadow Play shows the great Dial Or Nodial in the pedigree.
This sale season the Weavers spread 48 yearlings across four different auctions. Their future consignments look to expand in size as the pipeline is full with more foals from a larger broodmare band. They have projected between 70 and 80 foals arriving in the spring, a significant increase.
“We were even looking at the 2026 list already and it almost seems like it might be our biggest consignment or just as big as Lexington next year,” Lexi said of their possible 2026 Harrisburg offerings. “We are up to 94 mares on our broodmare list, but that number is going to change here very soon between buying more at Harrisburg and a reduction on onGait.”
