Superstar sprinter Pink Lloyd, a six-time Sovereign Award winner and the 2017 Canadian Horse of the Year, will try to win the Grade 3 Vigil Stakes for the fourth straight year Saturday at Woodbine.
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Old Forester Colt Tops CTHS Canadian Premier Yearling Sale
A colt by Old Forester, whose Horse of the Year son Pink Lloyd goes for a fourth consecutive victory in the GIII Vigil S. at Woodbine this Saturday, fetched a final bid of C$90,000 (US$68,977) to top Wednesday’s CTHS Canadian Premier Yearling Sale at Woodbine. Pink Lloyd, winner of 25 of his 30 career starts, was a graduate of the 2013 sale.
Consigned to the sale by Bernard McCormack’s Cara Bloodstock, the chestnut–offered as hip 15–was bred in Ontario by Whitford Bloodstock and is the latest foal from the multiple stakes-placed Holidaysatthefarm (Smarty Jones). The 12-year-old mare, already the dam of three winners from as many to race, is a half-sister to dual Grade III winner Rich In Spirit (Repriced), in turn the dam of GSW & GISP Wishing Gate (Indian Charlie) and granddam of SW and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Summering (War Front). The winning ticket was signed by John Di Scola.
A pair of offerings tied for second-dearest lot on bids of C$82,000. Hip 119, a Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales-consigned daughter of Lane’s End’s Mr Speaker from the family of Queen’s Plate and Sovereign Award winner Woodcarver (Woodman) was hammered down to Jim Menzies, while hip 136, a Langfuhr full-brother to SP Sweet Crimson and close relative to SW Will She (Wando) and MSP Sweet Grass Creek (Wando) was sold to Derek Chin, also from the Hill ‘n’ Dale draft.
A filly by Noble Mission (GB), who is a half-sister to SW Always Inthe Munny (Munnings), was led out unsold on a bid of C$100,000.
CTHS reported sales on 142 horses from 197 through the ring (27.9% RNA) and turnover of C$2,795,300. The average was C$19,685 with a median price of C$14,000. In 2019, a total of 157 horses were sold for C$3,381,400, an average of C$21,358 and a median of C$13,000. The buyback rate was 35.9%.
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Enhanced Catalog, Virtual Inspection Videos For Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase Now Online
The enhanced catalog, featuring virtual inspection videos, for next week's Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase may now be viewed online.
A popular staple of Fasig-Tipton's November and July Horses of Racing Age sales, the enhanced catalog has been upgraded with a fresh look and new features that are being debuted for the Selected Yearlings Showcase.
The enhanced catalog provides an individual webpage for each yearling cataloged in the sale. Featured prominently on this page are “virtual inspection videos” (walking videos), which provide a profile conformation shot, as well as walking footage from the side, front, and rear.
Prospective buyers have the option of watching a “Virtual All Show,” which will play all walking videos on a continuous loop. Videos may be “favorited” either in the index, or on the video itself, to create a short list of hips that can then be shared via email, Facebook, or Twitter. Buyers may also utilize the index to filter the catalog by sire, dam, consignor, or region foaled. The index will generate a “short list” of hips that matches the buyer's desired criteria. When a user sorts by consignor, they will be taken to a consignor branded page and the index will offer a “Consignor All Show.”
The enhanced catalog also offers a new feature named “Consignor Insights.” Located next to the walking videos, Consignor Insights offer information supplied by a yearling's consignor that may not always be immediately obvious on a catalog page – information often traditionally found in a consignor's “front man” book.
Other features offered include conformation photos, stallion register information, and a pedigree updates tab.
“When designing the upgraded enhanced catalog, our goal was to provide the information and tools needed by buyers who cannot attend a sale in person,” said Max Hodge, Fasig-Tipton's vice president of client services. “The Enhanced Catalogue provides valuable resources that complement the on-site buyer experience.”
Fasig-Tipton will continue to add virtual inspection videos and consignor insights in the coming days as they are submitted.
The Selected Yearlings Showcase will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 9-10, at Fasig-Tipton's Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky. The sale will begin each day at 10 a.m. Print catalogs are available from all Fasig-Tipton offices. The catalog may also be viewed via the equineline sales catalogue app, which also has links to each yearling's enhanced catalog page.
For buyers attending the sale in person, a list of registration requirements and COVID-19 protocols may be found at fasigtipton.com. Fasig-Tipton will offer online bidding and phone bidding services, as well.
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‘We’ll See How Far She Can Carry That Speed’: Baffert Thrilled With Gamine Ahead Of Kentucky Oaks
Taking to the Churchill Downs surface at 9 a.m., Michael Lund Petersen's Gamine, the even-money, morning line favorite for the Kentucky Oaks, put in her final routine gallop under Humberto Gomez on Thursday as she aims to give trainer Bob Baffert his fourth win in the signature race for 3-year-old fillies. Should the daughter of Into Mischief prevail Friday, it would mark the first time Baffert has won the Oaks with the favorite since Silverbulletday achieved that feat in 1999.
“I thought (champion) Indian Blessing was brilliant but this filly, what she's done is amazing,” Baffert said of Gamine. “Her Acorn (an 18 ¾-length win) was….I did not expect that. And in the Test, she was probably training even better heading into that. She's doing well. We'll see how far she can carry that speed.”
Gamine heads into the Oaks have captured the Acorn (GI) and Test Stakes (GI) in her past two outings by a combined 25 ¾ lengths. Should her brilliance carry her to victory in the Oaks, she would also put Baffert in position to become the first trainer to notch the Oaks-Derby double since Ben Jones achieved the feat in 1952. Baffert has two entrants in the Kentucky Derby with Grade 1 winner Authentic and multiple graded stakes winner Thousand Words.
“Right now, I'm just trying to get them there,” Baffert said. “I took baby steps with (Gamine). Now that she's done what she's done, her resume looks great. She just needs to add the Oaks and that would be the cherry on top.”
Petersen purchased Gamine for $1.8 million out of the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds Training Sale and a win Friday would make her the highest-priced Oaks winner sold at public auction since Rags to Riches — a $1.9 million yearling purchase — was victorious in 2007.
“She's just a real elegant looking filly, a lot of leg on her,” Baffert said. “She looked like a queen (at the sale). We call her Queen Gamine. You don't know how they're going to pan out but once we started working with her, she showed right off the bat that she was going to be something special. But I had trouble getting her (entered in a race) because everybody knew about her at Santa Anita. It took me a month to get her in. Every time I entered her, they knew she was in there.”
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