Add Racehorses to the List of Financial Assets That Are Sinking

Horses train at a farm in Ocala, Florida.Photographer: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Stocks, corporate bonds, oil, silver. And now racehorses, too.

The month-long wipeout in financial asset prices extended into the thoroughbred world Tuesday, when the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company began its traditional two-day auction of young horses in Ocala, Florida.