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Shoppers Out in Force Ahead of Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – A day after a well-attended breeze show and a day ahead of sale time, shoppers were out in force at the Fasig-Tipton sales barns at Gulfstream Park on a brilliantly sunny Tuesday morning.

“It's been very steady,” consignor Steve Venosa of SGV Thoroughbreds said as he watched his popular Practical Joke filly (hip 63) head out for another show Tuesday morning. “We started with our first show roughly around 8 a.m. and it's been non-stop for the last three hours. The usual faces are here and there are a few new ones, which is always pleasant to see.”

Venosa said the Gulfstream sale, which will be held in the track's paddock beginning at 2 p.m. Wednesday, is always a major stop on the calendar for his consignment.

“I think this is the best place to sell a 2-year-old in the world,” Venosa said. “It's a great surface and Fasig-Tipton is a world-class company. The weather is beautiful and I think the sale has been well-received with the amount of people that are here. This is the most important horse sale that I go to. Every year.”

Of the absence of some key consignors, Venosa added, “I am surprised. Because I think, by the amount of people who were here at the breeze show yesterday, and with the state of the market, people want to buy and it's unfortunate they didn't show up. But hopefully the people who are here are going to be rewarded for their efforts.”

Torie and Jimbo Gladwell, whose Top Line Sales had a seven-figure sale at the OBS March sale two weeks ago, will look to keep the momentum going with a three-horse consignment at Gulfstream.

“We always try to bring five or six to Gulfstream,” Torie Gladwell said. “A couple of clients had a few cross-entered into March and April and we lost one or two. And we ended up with three down here. So it's a typical consignment for us.”

Following Monday's breeze show, consignor Ciaran Dunne of Wavertree Stables described the importance of the Gulfstream sale with its South Florida backdrop and proximity to high-class racing both encouraging buyers to dream big.

“We're selling the dream,” Dunne said.

Gladwell echoed those sentiments Tuesday.

“I think we definitely need to continue this sale down here,” she said. “It's such a great market. A lot of these buyers that come from overseas just really like the atmosphere here and come down with big clients and big owners. It's a sale that we need to continue. Boyd and the Fasig team do a great job entertaining and offering all the hospitality.”

Top Line Sales was represented during Monday's breeze show with a colt by City of Light (hip 100) who worked the furlong in a co-second fastest :9 4/5.

“The track was great yesterday,” Gladwell said. “Horses seemed to go a little faster. They were getting across it a little easier than in previous years. The gallop-outs were faster and they came back not blowing and not as tired.”

Of activity at the barns Tuesday, Gladwell said, “It's been steady. The majority of the big buyers are here. There are some middle-market buyers who are showing up, so I think it's going to be a good market overall. The trainers haven't shown up yet, but I expect they'll come after training hours later today.”

Among the trainers at the barns late Tuesday morning were Bob Baffert, along with bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, as well as Simon Callaghan and agent Ben McElroy, Dale Romans and Gustavo Delgado. Representatives from Stonestreet, Spendthrift and WinStar Farms and major buyer Larry Best were busy shopping, as were agents Pete Bradley, Deuce Greathouse, Fabricio Buffolo, John Dowd, Dennis O'Neill, Jaime Hill, Conor Foley, Justin Casse, Raime Lightner, Joe Brocklebank and Patrick Lawley-Wakelin.

Hoby Kight was enjoying the view from the Hartley/de Renzo Thoroughbreds consignment as a Medaglia d'Oro colt (hip 88) he purchased for $225,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale made repeated trips from the barn to shows Tuesday morning.

“According to my consignors, they said he's been very popular and he's been out all morning,” Kight said with a smile.

Of the colt's appeal as a yearling, Kight said, “I loved his angles. As a 2-year-old guy, you want to buy a horse that you are able to see something that in the future is going to be good, something that for whatever reason, the big guys didn't go for. That's what we do. Everybody sees the obvious horse, but we have to buy the potential.”

The dark bay colt, who worked a furlong in :10 flat Monday, is the second horse Kight has bought for clients Marvin Boyd and Charlie Allen.

“They bought one a couple of years ago and it turned out good,” Kight said. “So this is the second horse they've had with me to do this. I bought the horse [hip 88] and they bought him from me within five minutes.”

Kight agreed the Gulfstream sale was an important stop on the juvenile sales season, particularly because of the Hallandale oval's dirt track.

“It's phenomenal,” he said of the sales results. “You look at all the great horses who have come out of this sale, per number, it's unbelievable.

He continued, “First of all, it's the dirt. There isn't any faking it. They are what they are. It separates them out. I have a couple of other horses for people scattered around because I am a full-fledged supporter of a good dirt horse sale. I believe in it. For what I do, I buy a horse who is always going to be a Corvette. At OBS, they all go fast. On the dirt, you can't do that.”

Danzel Brendemuehl's Classic Bloodstock consignment at Gulfstream includes a colt by Nyquist (hip 62) who worked a furlong in :9 4/5.

“It's been pretty busy,” Brendemuehl said of activity at her sales barn Tuesday. “Especially with just two horses, it's been steady and I've gone through most of my cards already. All of the right people are here. This sale has been a good sale and Boyd and Fasig have taken care of us over the years. We come because of that. The right buyers are always here. They did a great job on the breeze show. They kept the track in great shape. We were lucky the wind died down and we didn't have to deal with that like we did last year.”

Susan Montanye of SBM Training and Sales saw plenty to be optimistic about ahead of Wednesday's sale.

“It looks like there are a lot of people here,” she said. “I think everybody who needs to be here is here. It's beautiful weather and it looked like it was a great breeze show. The track was great. So I think it will be a successful sale for a lot of people. Just from the looks of it, people are here to buy.”

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First-Time Pinhookers Hoping Nyquist Colt Pays at Gulfstream

When Danzel Brendemuehl purchased a colt by Nyquist for $275,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale, she lay the groundwork for a pair of first-time pinhookers who will be hoping the move hits pay dirt when the youngster returns to the sales ring as hip 62 next Wednesday at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale. Brendemuehl signed the ticket on the yearling in the name of Don Cox's Sausalito Partners and Colleen Smith's Breckenridge Bloodstock, but pretty soon another name was added to the partnership when Dr. Bramdeo Singh joined the group.

Cox, who has been involved in horse racing on and off since the 1980s, has a handful of racehorses and broodmares, but his first foray into pinhooking came almost by accident when he was attending the California yearling sale last fall.

“This is my first time pinhooking,” Cox confirmed. “This opportunity just came up over at Pomona. I don't know, you get over there and you might have a cocktail or two and you're talking to everybody and you meet more and more people in the horse industry and it's an auction–sometimes you do things you wouldn't normally do. I jumped in with Danzel and Colleen and I guess somehow after that there was a fourth partner who wanted in, but I own one-third of him.”

While the Nyquist colt will be Cox's first official pinhook, the California resident did come close a few years ago.

“Danzel has been breaking horses for me for a few years and she bought a couple to pinhook a few years ago,” he explained. “We bought a Ghostzapper filly and a Goldencents colt and we were going to pinhook those. But, long story short, I said, 'Why pinhook them? I will just keep them and race them.' I bought both of those. I haven't had much luck with them yet, they both got hurt, but they are getting back to the track soon.”

Moderate to bad luck seems to be a theme for Cox's racing stable.

“One of my friends had a horse ranch, that's kind of how I got into it back in 1985,” Cox said. “I was working at the ranch and I just loved the animals. So they sold me one for $500 and I went down to Caliente with him and he won the race by 11 lengths. But they told me he would never be able to race again. I was a novice, I said, 'What do I do?' We gave him to a kid from the area to use as a riding horse. That was my first experience.

“Ever since then, unfortunately, we have given five or six horses away,” Cox said. “One of them went to Huntington Beach Equestrian Center and the people love him. One of them went to a little girl who sent us a nice letter about how much she loves him. We always get them re-purposed for a good cause. I don't like to hurt anything or put anything down. Of course we'd like to make some money, but so far we've mostly been donating.”

Cox is a vendor for the Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions chain of stores.

“My business is going great guns and that pays for all of my vets. The disposable income pays for my horse fun,” he explained.

Dr. Bramdeo Singh, who serves as medical director of Montefiore Nyack Hospital in New York, has been active in the Standardbred industry over the years, but jumped at the chance to return to Thoroughbred racing when he met Brendemuehl through a mutual friend.

A native of British Guyana, Singh's roots in Thoroughbred racing run deep.

“My grandpa had one of the most famous horses in that country, so that gives me goose bumps hearing the stories,” Singh said. “That's why my first love is the Thoroughbreds. There is just a thrill about being around the horses and watching them go fast.”

But when the family relocated to the U.S., Singh's love of racing took a slight detour.

“I came to this country when I was seven years old,” Singh said. “My dad took me to Yonkers Raceway. I've lived in Yonkers all my life pretty much. And I was a Standardbred fan. But I was always a fan of the Kentucky Derby, so this was my chance to get into the Thoroughbred business.”

Brendemuehl made several purchases at the California sale last September and Singh eventually invested in a package of three pinhooking prospects–one for each of his children–but he said the Nyquist colt was always at the top of his list.

“I noticed Danzel had bought a few in the California sale and on paper the Nyquist was the best looking,” Singh said. “I was a big Nyquist fan because he was undefeated when he won the Derby and I liked him in the Derby. So when I had a chance to own one of his offspring, I was all in. I asked her if I could get a share and she said of course. In the videos that she sends me of the three yearlings, this one stands out by far.”

The bay colt, who sells under Brendemuehl's Classic Bloodstock banner, is out of Soul Crusader (Fusaichi Pegasus) and is a half-brother to stakes-placed There Goes Harvard (Will Take Charge). He is from the family of Grade I winner Killer Graces and graded winner Chocolate Ride.

So far, Singh has only seen the 2-year-old from afar and his schedule is unlikely to allow him to travel to South Florida for the Gulfstream sale next week.

“I've just seen the videos,” he said. “I haven't had the chance yet to see him in Florida. I'm a medical director by day with three kids. So with my schedule I probably won't make it to the sale. But with my other two, one is selling in Maryland and I may try to go there.”

Singh has been getting positive reports on the colt.

“Danzel told me he is the best horse she's had by far. And that speaks volumes,” he said. “And the videos are like poetry in motion. He just looks so fluid.”

Both Cox and Singh make it clear that Brendemuehl is the lynchpin to their involvement in the pinhooking venture.

“In this business, trust is a big factor and she is one of the most honest people I know,” Singh said of Brendemuehl.

Cox agreed.

“I don't think I would do it with anybody other than Danzel,” he said. “I really like her and she's as honest as the day is long.”

Nyquist has already developed quite a resume for himself at the Gulfstream sale. Bloodstock agent Dennis O'Neill purchased the future Derby winner for $400,000 at the 2015 auction. The stallion was represented by the sale topper a year ago when his colt out of Spinning Wheel (Smart Strike) sold for $2.6 million.

In addition to hip 62, the 2022 Gulfstream catalogue also includes a daughter of Nyquist (hip 15) who sells with the Wavertree Stables consignment responsible for the 2021 sale topper and a son of the Derby winner (hip 31) who sells with Cary Frommer.

The under-tack show for the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale will be held Monday beginning at 9 a.m. The auction will be held Wednesday in the track's paddock with bidding scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.

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Vibrant Trade at Fasig California Sale

by Dan Ross and Jessica Martini

The third time proved the charm for the Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale, which produced the strongest results in its short three-year history with a session of lively bidding in Pomona Tuesday.

“Today was the most encouraging day we have had in California in a sales environment in the last three years that we've been involved here,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “There was a dramatic increase in the average and the median doubled from the sale last year and the RNA rate was down. But more important than that was the energy and the enthusiasm that I think everybody could sense at the sale. We felt pretty good with the pre-sale activity Monday and Tuesday morning. So today was very encouraging from that perspective.”

A total of 164 yearlings sold Tuesday for a gross of $6,672,050. The average was $40,683 and the median was $20,000. The buy-back rate was 24%.

During last year's auction, which was displaced to Los Alamitos due to the pandemic, 166 head sold for $3,735,700 for an average of $22,504 and a median of $10,000. The buy-back rate was 35.2%.

At the inaugural California sale in 2019, 137 yearlings grossed $3,667,800 for an average of $26,772 and a median of $13,000.

Seventeen horses sold Tuesday for $100,000 or more, and two sold for $300,000 or more. Tom Beckerle made the auction's highest bid when going to $350,000 to acquire a filly by American Pharoah.

Only three horses brought six figures with a top price of $200,000 in 2020, while in 2019 six yearlings brought six figures with a top price of $150,000.

“First of all, we all have to keep in mind when comparing 2021 to 2020 results, that 2020 was a COVID year and this area was particularly hard hit,” Browning said of the upswing. “And 2020 was very difficult for most businesses, including Thoroughbred auctions. There was a drop off from 2020 compared to 2019, so I think there was some built-in recovery as we have seen in virtually every sale that there was comparable numbers for in 2021 compared to 2020.

Browning continued, “If you look around, the economy is strong and in racing handle is up, purses are up, there is a positive feeling, for the most part, in the racing industry throughout the United States and that is certainly a factor. And some breeders answered the call and supported us with higher quality horses this year than they have in the past.”

Another Pharoah for Beckerle

Tom Beckerle, who already has a stakes winner by American Pharoah, purchased another filly by the 2015 Triple Crown winner for a sale-topping $350,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton California sale. The yearling (hip 196) was bred by Terry Lovingier and was consigned by his Lovacres Ranch. In partnership with Lovingier and Amanda Navarro, Beckerle campaigns Fi Fi Pharoah (American Pharoah), who won the Melair S. in June.

“I have some partners that wanted to get an American Pharoah,” Beckerle said. “We liked her for breeding down the road and Fi Fi Pharoah has already made us a couple hundred thousand dollars. We think this one can do the same thing.

We will see what happens.”

Hip 196 is out of the unraced Ez Indy (A.P. Indy), who is a half-sister to champion Banshee Breeze (Unbridled). The mare, in foal to Animal Kingdom, was purchased by Lovingier for $85,000 at the 2016 Keeneland November sale.

Beckerle, based in Fallbrook, California, purchased three other yearlings from the Lovacres Ranch consignment Tuesday. He acquired a colt by Stay Thirsty (hip 134) for $100,000 and a pair of fillies by the GI Travers S. winner (hip 8 and hip 31) for $50,000 each.

Siegel Strikes Early For Practical Joke Filly

Trainer Brian Koriner, bidding on behalf of Samantha Siegel's Jay Em Ess Stable, got the Fasig-Tipton California sale off to a quick start when purchasing a filly by Practical Joke (hip 10) for $300,000. The yearling was consigned by Barton Thoroughbreds and was bred by Richard Barton Enterprises, which purchased her unraced dam Miss Lavinia (Speightstown) for $4,200 at the 2016 Keeneland November sale.

“She is by Practical Joke and she is out of a Speightstown mare,” Koriner said of the yearling's appeal. “She's bred to be very fast and maybe early and precocious.”

The 14-year-old Miss Lavinia is a daughter of Miss Seffens (Dehere), who is also the dam of GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner More Than Real (More Than Ready). Miss Lavinia is the dam of graded placed Arch Cat (Arch), as well as the dam of multiple Grade I placed Cassies Dreamer (Flatter).

Jay Em Ess Stable was making its first purchase of the yearling sale season, according to Koriner.

“She is very excited,” he said of Siegel. “She hasn't bought any yearlings all year, she waited and she's very excited to get a Cal-bred by Practical Joke.”

Barton Thoroughbreds also had sales success Tuesday with a filly by Palace Malice (hip 79) who sold for $135,000 to Legacy Ranch. The operation purchased her dam, Smiling Cruise, with this foal in utero, for $22,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November sale.

Nyquist Colt a Classic Purchase

Ocala horsewoman Danzel Brendemuehl returned to her California roots to purchase a colt by Nyquist (hip 83) in the name of her Classic Bloodstock as agent for partners Sasulito and Breckenridge Bloodstock in Pomona Tuesday.

“We loved everything about him,” Brendemuehl said. “He's by Nyquist, he's a California-bred and he's a very nice colt. We are probably going to pinhook him in a Fasig-Tipton sale–probably Miami.”

Brendemuehl did not rule out a return trip to California for the yearling.

“California needs a 2-year-old sale and Boyd Browning is working real hard with Fasig-Tipton to make it happen,” she said. “If it happens, we'll be here with that colt and we'll top the sale.”

Hip 83 is out of Soul Crusader (Fusaichi Pegasus), a daughter of graded winner Michigan Bluff (Skywalker). He was consigned by Woodbridge Farm and was bred by Bud Petrosian who purchased the mare with this foal in utero for $22,000 at last year's Keeneland January sale.

Also Tuesday, Brendemuehl also purchased a colt by Smiling Tiger (hip 44) for $27,000. Coleen Smith's Breckenridge Bloodstock returned later in the session to acquire a filly by City of Light (hip 208) for $170,000.

Slugo Racing Gets in on the Light'

Steve Gasparelli's Slugo Racing added a colt by in-demand young sire City of Light to its roster when acquiring hip 171 for $260,000 Tuesday in Pomona.

“We like the City of Lights,” Gasparelli, who did his bidding alongside trainer Mike Puype, said. “We think he has a lot of potential as a stallion. And I really liked the way this colt looked, very correct. And the mare has dropped winners already. We only came for a couple and he was on our short list.”

The yearling is out of Chicalelee (Cherokee Run) and is a half-brother to stakes-placed Touchdown Brown (Cairo Prince). He was consigned by Bruno DeBerdt's Excel Bloodstock on behalf of his breeder, PT Syndicate #1 LLC.

Square Eddie Colt to Blacker

Three years ago, Dan Blacker was an underbidder on a yearling by Square Eddie out of North Freeway (Jump Start), but the trainer would not be denied for the colt's full-brother, going to $200,000 Tuesday to acquire hip 30.

“I was underbidder on the brother two years ago to Simon Callaghan, so I am kind of glad that he didn't show up today and I got to buy this one,” Blacker said after signing the ticket on behalf of a partnership of owners.

The bay yearling was bred by Thomas Bachman and was consigned by his Fairview LLC. Stakes-winning North Freeway is already the dam of stakes winner and Grade I placed Take the One O One (Acclamation) and the Callaghan-trained stakes winner Square Deal (Square Eddie).

“He looks really solid,” Blacker, who did his bidding alongside Boomer Bloodstock's Craig Rounsefell, said of the yearling. “He looks like a really sound horse that is going to be fun for our partners. And it's a good family, the mare is great and he really looked really solid soundness wise and soundness is so important these days. Hopefully we will get him to the races at Del Mar next summer and go on from there.”

Impressive Return for Christophersons

Neal and Pam Christopherson, owners of Bar-C Racing Stables, enjoyed a quick return on their investment in the mare Joyce and Me (Discreet Cat) Tuesday. The couple purchased the mare, in foal to Stanford, for just $1,000 at the CTBA January sale in 2020. They sent the mare's Stanford filly (hip 230) through the ring in Pomona to sell for $100,000 to Slugo Racing.

“That's a nice return on the investment. I like to gamble on stuff that looks like that,” Neal Christopherson said.

Joyce and Me produced a filly by Stanford this year and was bred back to Harbor the Gold.

Bar C Racing Stables was already coming off a big score in the sales ring this month. As part of a foal-share, the operation sold a filly by Uncle Mo out of Fresia (El Prado {Ire}) (hip 371) for $700,000 at the Keeneland September sale. The Christophersons purchased Fresia for $35,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale. She was carrying subsequent multiple stakes winner Galilean (Uncle Mo) at that auction.

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Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale ‘A Win’

TIMONIUM, MD – With action building throughout the day, the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale concluded with a bevy of six-figure transactions Tuesday and statistics nearly on par with the 2019 auction in Timonium.

“Overall, it was a very, very solid sale statistically,” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. said at the close of business Tuesday evening. “The average is virtually identical to last year and the median is identical to last year. The RNA rate overall is just slightly over 20%. The gross is up significantly because of the bigger catalogue. Under the circumstances with COVID-19 and its impact on 2020, we’d have to say the sale was a tremendous success in terms of being able to accomplish similar results to last year and it was a pretty good year last year. We have been able to maintain the status quo, which I think is a win in the world we are living in right now.”

In all, 379 yearlings grossed $9,161,200 during the two-day auction for an average of $24,172 and a median of $14,000. With 105 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate was 21.7%.

The 2020 auction opened with an offering of New York-breds, leading to a larger catalogue than the 2019 sale which saw 300 yearlings gross $7,275,900. The 2019 average was $24,253 and the median was $14,000. The buy-back rate was 23.3%.

A colt by Gun Runner attracted the 2020 auction’s highest bid when selling Tuesday for $270,000 to Danzel Brendemuehl and Robert Lambe. The yearling was consigned by Becky Davis.

“I think it’s like a lot of the sales recently,” Davis said of the market in Timonium. “The really top horses are going to bring the prices and the middle horses are going to suffer. I have some middle horses that suffered, but I have also been pleasantly surprised with a couple of the prices, too. I had some that didn’t get a whole lot of action who sold well to local people and then these couple of strong Kentucky sires got everyone on them.”

Three horses sold for over $200,000 and 11 brought six figures over the two 2020 sessions.

The top price at the 2019 Midlantic sale was $190,000 and that colt was one of 11 to bring six figures at the two-day auction.

“The market is still not easy. When there is a median of $14,000, nobody who sells a horse for $14,000 or less is making any money, we all know that,” Browning said. “But it’s not significantly different, if much different at all, from this marketplace last year.”

Browning said the middle market seems to have been less affected by the polarization in sales results.

“The later books at Keeneland seemed to have a little more feel of 2019 than the earlier books,” Browning said. “And we have seen it in some of the other regional markets that have held up reasonably well. There is still polarization, but the gap because of the polarization and the diminishing of a few major buyers is certainly a lot less when the top is $250,000 or $300,000. But all in all, we were very encouraged with the results. It was something to continue to build on in this marketplace, for both the yearling and 2-year-old sales, and for the overall marketplace.”

Gun Runner Colt to Brendemuehl, Lambe

A colt from the first crop of champion Gun Runner will be targeted at next year’s Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale after Danzel Brendemuehl, bidding out back alongside Robert Lambe, signed the ticket at $270,000 to acquire the chestnut yearling (hip 371) Tuesday in Timonium.

“We saw him yesterday early and as soon as we saw him, we knew we wanted him,” Brendemuehl said. “We knew we were going to have to stretch.”

The yearling is out of Stormy Tak (Stormy Atlantic), a daughter of multiple Grade I winner Lady Tak (Mutakddim) and a half-sister to the dam of this year’s GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. winner Volatile (Violence). He was consigned by Becky Davis on behalf of breeder Jon Marshall, who purchased Stormy Tak for $90,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton February sale.

“We are extremely happy with that result,” said Davis. “We didn’t have a reserve. This is a new client for me, so it’s nice to have a new client do that well. We were hoping to get around $50,000, but Gun Runner has jumped up and there was a lot of hype about him. He’s a super athletic horse, so he caught a lot of attention. He really got on everybody’s short list because of the way he was showing himself.”

Of the yearling’s appeal, Brendemuehl said, “He looks fast and he’s a Gun Runner. We loved him and all day we’ve been waiting for him. We were going to buy the Nyquist (hip 21) privately when he was bought back [Monday], but we knew we had to wait for this one. We saved our bullets. He’ll go to the Miami sale and we’ll see what happens.”

Lambe and Brendemuehl teamed up for pinhooking success in Timonium in June when selling a colt by Not This Time for $650,000 at the Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. They had partnered to acquire the colt for $40,000 at the Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale in 2019.

Through Davis’s consignment, Marshall offered a filly by Gun Runner later in Tuesday’s session, but the Pennsylvania-based breeder bought the filly (hip 553) back on a final bid of $250,000.

Beaver Gets His Flatter Colt

Nick Beaver of Bell Gable Stables came to the Midlantic Fall sale with his eye on one horse and the Maryland breeder came away with the colt, a son of Flatter, for $250,000 Tuesday in Timonium.

“We came specifically for this horse and he’s the only one we bid on,” Beaver said after signing the ticket on hip 451. “I think he was the best horse in the sale.”

The yearling, bred by Richard Golden’s Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds, is out of Apple Cider (More Than Ready). Out of multiple graded winner Who Did It and Run (Polish Numbers), the mare is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner and graded placed Giant Run (Giant’s Causeway). The colt was consigned by Northview Stallion Station.

“My wife [Delora] and I have had our eye on him for a couple weeks now,” Beaver said of the yearling. “We know the guys at Northview very well. We live in Chesapeake City, we actually live right next door to Northview Stallions, so we are one big family.”

Of the yearling’s final price, Beaver said, “I wasn’t surprised, especially after seeing how many people had looked at him. He was showing well back there.”

The yearling’s half-sister by Twirling Candy was purchased by bloodstock agent Dennis O’Neill for $270,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

Bell Gable Stable has about 19 horses in training, as well as six broodmares. Plans for the operation’s newest acquisition are still to be determined.

“We are going to send him to Delaware initially to get him Delaware-certified,” Beaver said. “We’ll keep him in the Midtlantic and from there, we’re not sure yet. Obviously, he is Maryland-bred, but not Maryland-sired, so he has a lot of different things we can do with him.”

Repole, Viola Team for Street Sense Colt

High-power New York owners Mike Repole and Vinnie Viola, very active at the Kentucky yearling sales last month, continued their fall buying spree when bloodstock agent Jacob West signed the ticket at $240,000 to acquire a colt by Street Sense (hip 383) for the partnership Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton.

“It was quite a team effort picking him out,” West said. “[Repole bloodstock advisors] Eddie Rosen and Jim Martin and [Viola’s St Elias advisor] Rory Babich, we all loved him. Mike and Vinnie got behind us and let us do our job and we secured what we think is a beautiful-looking colt. He has a Classic pedigree and that’s what they are looking for.”

Bred by the late Robert Manfuso and Katherine Voss and consigned by Voss’s Chanceland Farm, the bay colt is out of Tanca (Polish Numbers) and is a half-brother to stakes winners Cordmaker (Curlin), Las Setas (Seville {Ger}) and Corvus (Dance with Ravens).

West has been walking the Midlantic sales grounds for the last few days, but was making his first purchase when signing for hip 383.

“We traveled all the way to Maryland to buy him,” West said. “This is the first one I bought. We bid on some New York-breds earlier and in fairness they were pretty strong. We had numbers in our mind and they went past those numbers. So we saved our pennies for this one.”

Repole and Viola partnered to purchase 15 yearlings for $6,380,000 at the Keeneland September sale and a further two at the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase.

“They are taking advantage of a market that might be a little bit soft,” West said. “They and their families are diehard fans of the game and they want to be supportive of the game. We got outbid on more horses than we bought in September, so they supported the market tremendously and we bid on a couple earlier in this sale and got outrun. They are good supporters of the game.”

Crow Makes Most of Maryland Trip

During the early weeks of October in recent years, Liz Crow has been shopping at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, but with travel restrictions in place due to the global pandemic, the bloodstock agent skipped the English trip and was busy buying in Timonium this week instead. Crow made her highest purchase of the two-day Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale going to $135,000 to acquire a filly by Declaration of War (hip 265) from the Paramount Sales consignment Tuesday.

“She will go to the races,” Crow said of the yearling. “I don’t know where yet, but Paul Sharp is going to break her. I thought she was a really pretty filly with a nice page. There aren’t a lot like that here. I thought she stood out.”

Bred in Pennsylvania by Equivine Farm, the dark bay filly is out of Newstouse (Unbridled’s Song) and is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Newstome (Goldencents).

Crow signed the ticket on five yearlings at the two-day Midlantic auction for a total of $310,000.

“I am usually at Tattersalls and I’m really sad not to be there, but I thought with the quarantine situation with COVID it would just be too hard to get over there,” Crow explained. “So, I am here instead. There are some nice horses here and we are getting some stuff bought for some clients to race regionally.”

Of the market in Maryland, Crow added, “It’s competitive for the right horses. There are definitely some bargain opportunities here, but I think the really nice horses are bringing plenty of money.”

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