New days and dates for HTA art auction

The days and dates of Harness Tracks of America’s two-day art auction – the largest in the 28-year history of the association’s college scholarship fund project and one of the largest equine art auctions in the world – have been changed.

With a catalog of 300 oil paintings, watercolors, bronzes and woodcarvings, the sale will be held starting at 8:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday mornings, Oct. 8 and 9.    It had previously been announced for Oct. 9 and 10.  

“This sale has reached such huge and significant size this year, we want to make certain those in Lexington for the Kentucky Futurity and final two nights of the Tattersalls yearling auctions have an opportunity to see and bid on some of the finest harness racing art ever offered,” said Stan Bergstein, HTA executive vice president and auctioneer for the sale.  Original harness art and treasures of the past will be sold on Friday morning, and rare Currier and Ives comic prints and original historical lithographs will be sold Saturday morning, with all net proceeds going to the HTA College Scholarship Fund for children of participants in the sport or participants themselves.