Month: November 2023

Katsumi Yoshida Adds Wonder Wheel for $3.2M to Fasig-Tipton Shopping Cart

Wonder Wheel (Into Mischief–Wonder Gal, by Tiz Wonderful), the champion 2-year-old filly of 2022 following wins in the GI NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and GI Darley Alcibiades S., fetched $3.2 million Tuesday evening at the Fasig-Tipton November sale from buyer Katsumi Yoshida. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for DJ Stable LLC Graduate, the dark bay or brown 3-year-old was the first 2-year-old champion for four-time leading sire Into Mischief. Sold as a broodmare prospect as hip 200, Wonder Wheel is from the same family as GISW Force the Pass (Speightstown) and was bred by Three Chimneys Farm and Clearsky Farms in Kentucky.

Buyer Yoshida had also purchased GISW Search Results (Flatter) for $3.6 million a little earlier in the evening at Fasig-Tipton. Click here to see a recent video feature on Wonder Wheel.

 

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Kentucky Oaks Winner Secret Oath Goes To Spendthrift Farm For $3 Million At Fasig-Tipton November

Secret Oath, the winner of the 2022 Kentucky Oaks, will join the broodmare band at Spendthrift Farm after selling for $3 million on Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

The 4-year-old daughter of Arrogate finished her on-track career with six wins from 18 starts, earning $2,444,767 as a homebred for Briland Farm.

“She's a big, classy mare,” said Spendthrift general manager Ned Toffey. “We think she's a perfect type of mare for Into Mischief, and we're just really thrilled to get her. We thought she'd be a little more money – that's plenty to pay for any horse – but we were really happy to get her for that number.”

After starting her 3-year-old campaign with wins in the listed Martha Washington Stakes and the Grade 3 Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn Park, trainer D. Wayne Lukas tested her against colts in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby, where she finished third.

Secret Oath then won a deep edition of the Kentucky Oaks, besting runner-up Nest by two lengths and conquering a field that also included champion Echo Zulu. She then returned to open competition once again for the Preakness Stakes, where she finished fourth. After earning a trio of graded stakes placings during the second half of her 2022 campaign, Secret Oath was named an Eclipse Award finalist for champion 3-year-old female.

The filly added one more win at age four, taking the G2 Azeri Stakes in her seasonal bow.

“She took a backseat to nobody,” Toffey said. “She's a really special mare, and you need to get that kind.”

Secret Oath is out of the Grade 1-placed stakes-winning Quiet American mare Absinthe Minded, also a Briland Farm homebred. Bluewater Sales consigned the filly, as agent.

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Sauterne, Search Results, Secret Oath: Three Consecutive Mares Bring $3M or More at Fasig-Tipton

In what was surely one of the most thrilling few moments of Fasig-Tipton's history, three consecutive mares through the November Sale ring fetched $3 million or more Tuesday evening. Hips 178-180–Sauterne (Fr) (Kingman {GB})–Salicorne, by Aragorn {Ire}), Search Results (Flatter–Co Cola, by Candy Ride {Arg}), and Secret Oath (Arrogate–Absinthe Minded, by Quiet American)–combined for a gross of $10.8 million in approximately five minutes.

Sauterne, winner this year of the G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in France and consigned by Nicky Drion Thoroughbreds, agent, was the first of the trio to go through the ring and fetched a cool $4.2 million from Emmanuel de Seroux's Narvick International on behalf of Japan's Grand Farm. The sophomore filly is out of an unraced half-sister to dual American and French champion Stacelita (Fr) (Monsun). Sauterne sold as a racing or broodmare prospect. Jean Pierre Dubois bred her in France.

Search Results, winner of the GI Acorn S. in 2021 and most recently sixth in Saturday's GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff, also sold as a racing or broodmare prospect. Bred by Machmer Hall in Kentucky and consigned by Elite, agent, she is from the same family as GISW Mind Your Biscuits (Posse) and Canadian champion Kimchi (Langfuhr). Search Results went to Katsumi Yoshida for $3.6 million.

Secret Oath, winner of the 2022 GI Kentucky Oaks, fetched $3 million from Spendthrift Farm LLC. Bred in Kentucky by Briland Farm, Robert Mitchell, and Stacy Mitchell, the chestnut was consigned by Bluewater Sales LLC, agent VI and sold specifically as a broodmare prospect. Her final appearance on the racetrack was a second behind Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Idiomatic (Curlin) in the Aug. 25 GI Personal Ensign S.

 

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