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Gamine, the champion female sprinter of 2020, sold to M.V. Magnier representing the Coolmore partnership for $7 million on Sunday at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

The 5-year-old daughter of Into Mischief was offered in-foal to top commercial sire Quality Road, after finishing her career with nine wins in 11 starts for earnings of $1,771,500.

Gamine made good on the $1.8 million paid for her by owner Michael Lund Petersen at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale over the course of her career. Trained by Bob Baffert, she won each of her first four starts, culminating in an 18 3/4-length score in the G1 Acorn Stakes, and a seven-length drubbing of the G1 Test Stakes.

After finishing out of the money in the Kentucky Oaks after setting the pace, Gamine won her next five races, starting with a 6 1/4-length triumph in the 2020 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, which secured her the Eclipse Award as that year's champion female sprinter.

At four, Gamine rolled off wins G3 Las Flores Stakes, the G1 Derby City Distaff Stakes, the G2 Great Lady M Stakes, and finally, the G1 Ballerina Handicap. Her final start came in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar, where she finished third.

Bred in Kentucky by Grace Thoroughbred Holdings, Gamine is out of the stakes-placed Kafwain mare Peggy Jane. She hails from the family of Canadian champion Dynamic Sky.

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Shedaresthedevil, winner of the 2020 Kentucky Oaks, will join the elite broodmare band of Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm after Pope bought out her partners with a final bid of $5 million on Sunday at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

Pope initially bought into a partnership that included Flurry Racing Stables and Qatar Racing during last year's November Sale, when the daughter of Daredevil went through the ring for the same price. Hunter Valley Farm consigned her at both sales, as agent.

The 5-year-old won 10 of 21 starts for earnings of $2,777,458.

After a Grade 2-placed juvenile campaign, Shedaresthedevil established herself as a top Kentucky Oaks contender with a victory in the Grade 3 Honeybee Stakes. When COVID-19 pushed the 2020 Oaks back to September, Shedaresthedevil kept her stock high over the summer with a win in the G3 Indiana Oaks.

In the Kentucky Oaks, Shedaresthedevil battled with Gamine in the early goings, then fended off future Preakness Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver to win by 1 1/2 lengths for trainer Brad Cox. Her time of 1:48.28 over 1 1/8 miles was the fastest in Kentucky Oaks history.

In 2021, Shedaresthedevil established herself as one of the top older females in the country, with scores in the G1 La Troienne Stakes and G1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes, along with wins in the G2 Azeri Stakes and G3 Locust Grove Stakes. Returning to the races in 2022 after gaining Pope as a partner, Shedaresthedevil's season was highlighted by a win in the G2 Fleur De Lis Stakes in July at Churchill Downs.

After the fall of the hammer, Pope listed record-setting young sire Gun Runner and Breeders' Cup Classic winner Flightline as potential partners for the mare's first mating.

Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm, Shedaresthedevil is out of the winning Congrats mare Starship Warpspeed. She is a half-sister to Grade 3-placed Mojovation.

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Multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good, who set the early pace in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) before finishing fifth to unbeaten Flightline Nov. 5 at Keeneland, has joined the stallion roster at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, where he will begin his stud career in 2023. He will stand for an advertised fee of $100,000.

By leading sire Into Mischief, Life Is Good has four Grade 1 wins on his record anchored by a gate-to-wire performance in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar and a trio of top-level triumphs this year: the Woodward and Whitney, both at Saratoga this summer, and Pegasus World Cup, defeating reigning Horse of the Year Knicks Go in a wire-to-wire tour de force, in January at Gulfstream Park.

Overall, Life Is Good, who was trained by Todd Pletcher for WinStar Farm and CHC Inc., compiled a 9-1-0 record from 12 starts and amassed $4,541,700 in lifetime earnings.

Bred by Gary and Mary West, Life Is Good was produced by the Distorted Humor mare Beach Walk.

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Flightline, who capped a brilliant unbeaten career with an 8 1⁄4-length victory in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, has been retired to Lane's End Farm. He will stand as the property of a syndicate with a stud fee still to be announced.

By Tapit from a prolific Phipps family, Flightline was bred by Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm and raced by
Summer Wind in partnership with Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, West Point Thoroughbreds and Woodford Racing. A $1-million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase from the Lane's End consignment, Flightline was trained by John Sadler and was ridden in all six of his starts by Flavien Prat.

Flightline's victory in the $6-million Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland was the culmination of an historic career in which he won all six starts—including four Grade 1s—and earned $4,514,800. Flightline is the world's highest-rated racehorse in 2022, having been assigned a mark of 139 following his 19 1⁄4-length victory in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic on Sept. 3. His rating is the second-highest ever assigned by the World's Best Racehorse rankings, behind only the great Frankel, and he is the highest-rated dirt horse in history. Facing the strongest field he had ever met in the Classic, Flightline stalked four-time Grade 1 winner Life Is Good through hot fractions before collaring that rival at the quarter pole and drawing clear under a hand ride. He earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 121.

“We would like to thank trainer John Sadler and his team for the incredible work they did with Flightline,” said Lane's End's Bill Farish. “His historic performances are a credit to their expertise and unwavering efforts to bring out the very best in the horse.”

Flightline displayed star power right from the beginning, winning on debut in April of 2021 at Santa Anita Park. His 13 1⁄4-length victory earned him 'TDN Rising Star' status and a Beyer Speed Figure of 105. He was scintillating in a first-level allowance at Del Mar at second asking, winning by 12 3/4 lengths and earning a 114 Beyer.

Making his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in December of 2021, Flightline continued to assert his dominance, winning by 11 1/2 lengths for a 118 Beyer. Next seen in the G1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park on June 11, Flightline overcame a troubled trip to score by six lengths, earning a 112 Beyer.

Trying two turns for the first time in the Pacific Classic, Flightline pulled clear effortlessly from Dubai World Cup winner Country Grammer to earn a 126 Beyer–the joint second-highest Beyer since Daily Racing Form began publishing Beyer Speed Figures 30 years ago. Thoro-Graph assigned Flightline a – 8 1/2, the fastest number it has ever given out. Flightline's Pacific Classic performance resonated overseas, too: Timeform assigned him a rating of 143, the highest number ever given to an American-trained horse.

Flightline is out of Jane Lyon's Feathered, a daughter of Indian Charlie who won the G3 Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs and finished second in both the G1 American Oaks and G1 Starlet Stakes and third in the G1 Frizette Stakes. It is an excellent Phipps family, the third dam being the G1 Matron Stakes and G1 Acorn Stakes winner Finder's Fee, and the fourth dam the Grade 1-winning and multiple Grade 1-placed Fantastic Find.

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