The 2026 Standardbred Horse Sales Company auction in Harrisburg opened Monday (Nov. 2) with a strong first yearling session. Coffeeshop Hanover, a Chapter Seven filly consigned by Hanover Shoe Farms, topped the day at $800,000 to Jeffrey Snyder. The session grossed $18,814,000 for an average of $108,126, up 15.5 per cent in gross and 12.8 per cent in average from 2025. Tuesday (Nov. 3) carried that momentum into the middle market. The second session grossed $15,464,000, up 8.1 per cent, at an average of $38,660, nearly level with a year earlier even as 29 more horses went through the ring. Only two yearlings reached $200,000, led by Splendor Hanover at $205,000. Through two days the sale grossed $34,278,000, up 12 per cent, at an average of $59,718, up 5.6 per cent.

The yearling portion closed Wednesday (Nov. 4) with 886 yearlings grossing $40,040,000 at an average of $45,192, an 11.1 per cent increase in gross and an 8.4 per cent increase in average from 2025’s $36,030,000 and $41,701 from 864 horses. Those were the best yearling gross and average figures since 2022. The third session itself grossed $5,762,000, up 6 per cent, and Nikway Farms Ltd. bought session topper Theo The King for $150,000. Sweet Lou led pacing sires by average followed by Bulldog Hanover, while Walner and Chapter Seven led the trotters.

The Mixed Sale opened Thursday (Nov. 5) around the first phase of the Spring Station Bloodstock dispersal, which supplied eight of the nine top sellers and grossed over $4 million from 57 mares. Call Me Goo brought the session’s top bid at $475,000, and Armitage Farm spent nearly $1.3 million on four Spring Station mares. The opening mixed session grossed $11,992,000 with a $20,000 median. On Friday (Nov. 6), Beau Jangles, the reigning U.S. and Canadian Horse of the Year, sold for $3.7 million to John Curtin of Auckland, NZ, breaking the standardbred public auction record of $1.85 million set by Amazing Catch in 2024. Friday grossed $15,570,000 from 192 horses, and the two mixed days totaled $27,562,000 from 495 sales. The five-day auction closed at $67,602,000 from 1,381 sales, 10 per cent shy of 2025’s record $70,474,000 from 200 more horses, while the average rose 2.6 per cent and the median increased from $22,000 to $25,000. Preferred Equine led consignors with more than $14.8 million in sales.