Big Buyer Best Starts New Chapter As A Commercial Seller At Fasig-Tipton July Sponsored by: Larry Best has shaken plenty of hands at Thoroughbred auctions after the hammer falls and sales tickets are signed, but there was something different about the exchange on Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale. After years at the top of the bloodstock market as a high-dollar buyer through his OXO Equine operation, Best shook the hand of winning bidder James Bernhard for the first time as the breeder and seller of a high-dollar sale horse. “I just congratulated him,” Best said. “Everybody congratulates me when I buy a horse, and this is the first opportunity I've had to congratulate someone as the breeder, and now I know how it feels. We got a fair value for the horse, and you hope they do well.”