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American Pharoah Colt Tops Final Session Of Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Showcase

The Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase concluded its two-day run in Lexington, Ky. on Thursday with another solid session of sales, led by a seven-figure colt from the third crop of last year's champion first-crop sire American Pharoah.

Speedway Stables purchased the session-topper for $1.25 million from the consignment of Denali Stud, agent.

Offered as Hip 400, the American Pharoah colt is out of the stakes winning Victory Gallop mare Swingit, whose first five starters are all winners, including multiple Grade 1-placed millionaire Neolithic (Harlan's Holiday). This colt is also a half-sibling to Travel Column (Frosted), who broke her maiden impressively on debut at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Oaks day. The session-topper hails from the immediate family of champions Housemaster and Carnuaba.

Hip 400 was bred in Kentucky by Mr. & Mrs. Bayne Welker Jr.

The second-highest price on the day was $800,000 paid for Hip 501, a colt by Into Mischief, last year's champion sire, current leading sire, and sire of Kentucky Derby winner Authentic.

That colt was purchased by Donato Lanni, agent for SF/Starlight/Madaket from the consignment of Indian Creek, agent. Hip 501 is the first foal out of Blind Copy, a full-sister to juvenile stakes winner Lucky Folie, from the immediate family of Grade 1 winners Golden Pheasant and Henley's Joy. Hip 501 was bred in Kentucky by Fifth Avenue Bloodstock.

The sale's overall most expensive offering came during the first session, when Hip 232, a filly by Quality Road out of Irish One Thousand Guineas winner Marvellous sold to Robbie Medina, agent for Joseph Allen, for $1,500,000.

Marvellous, a daughter of Galileo who has already produced a stakes winner in Fort Myers, is out of Group 2 winner You'resothrilling, a full-sister to European Horse of the Year and successful sire Giant's Causeway. Marvellous is a full-sister to Group 1 winners Gleneagles and Happily, as well as to group stakes winners Taj Mahal and Coolmore. The session-topper was bred in Kentucky by Orpendale, Chelston and Wynatt.

The top filly was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, agent.

“One of the greatest compliments you can have is when someone entrusts you with something of value,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning on the success of the sale despite the uncertainty brought to the industry by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our commitment to those men and women was that we were going to do everything we possibly could to create the most viable marketplace under the circumstances… I think we did that.

Overall, 348 yearlings changed hands for $61,765,000. The average was $177,486 and the median was $120,000.

“The 'death' of the marketplace has been greatly exaggerated,” Browning said. “There is activity, there is a viable market. It's selective, and it continues to be selective, but there is viability and there is hope.”

In what has been a volatile auction season due to the cancellations and rescheduled sales tied to COVID-19, not to mention the death of senior account executive Dennis Lynch in May, Browning saluted his team for keeping steady in uncharted waters.

“If anybody could have imagined six months ago; no Gulfstream sale, no July yearling sale, no Saratoga sale, no New York-bred sale, that we'd be sitting here having sold over $60 million in horses over the last two days, I think most people would have called B.S. on us,” he said. “They stayed in the buggy with us. There were a lot of days where people would say, 'What are we gonna do?' Hell, I don't know. We're going to continue to try to find the answers and we're going to continue to do the right thing every day. We'll make a decision, we'll try to put our heart and soul in it, and we'll continue to try to do the best that we can. I think, across the board, our team did that.”

Results are available online.

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Pharoah Half to Recent ‘Rising Star’ Lights Up Board at Fasig

A son of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah was the first to set off fireworks at Fasig-Tipton Thursday, igniting a spirited round of bidding between a trio of powerhouse connections in Donato Lanni, Coolmore and Marette Farrell, acting on behalf on Speedway Stables. Lanni was the first to throw in the towel, leaving Coolmore and Farrell to duke it out and it was Farrell left to sign the winning $1.25-million ticket on behalf of her longtime clients, Speedway’s K.C. Weiner and Peter Fluor.

“K.C. Weiner and Peter Fluor are two of the best owners a person could possibly have,” said Farrell, who said she was shocked to find out she had outbid the Coolmore team. “They are game. They are very successful in their own business world and they apply all of those principles to our little horse world. They have done very well so far. They love being part of the game. They love working with Bob Baffert.”

Consigned by Denali Stud, Hip 400 was bred by Fasig’s Bayne and Christina Welker, who purchased the MSW mare Swingit (Victory Gallop) for $50,000 in foal to Bodemeister at the 2016 Keeneland November Sale. Already the dam of MGISP millionaire Neolithic (Harlan’s Holiday) at that time, her second foal for the Welkers was new ‘TDN Rising Star’ Travel Column (Frosted), who was purchased by Larry Best for $850,000 at last term’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale.

“We just thought he was an absolutely stunning horse,” Farrell said. “We were the underbidder on his half-sister last year, who was the ‘TDN Rising Star’. We had seen this horse on the farm and knew how much his connections thought of him and Bob Baffert, who is going to train him, loved him. I was on the phone with K.C. Weiner, who coached me through this. We are thrilled to get him. We think he is a really special horse and it looks like the mare has already produced a couple of very good horses. He fits what Speedway wants and what Bob Baffert is looking for.”

Baffert and Speedway have enjoyed a successful partnership over the years, campaigning the likes of Grade I winners Collected (City Zip), Roadster (Quality Road) and Noted and Quoted (The Factor). —@CDeBernardisTDN

Watch our interview with Marette Farrell below.

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Quality Road Filly Tops First Session Of Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase At $1.5 Million

The 2020 yearling sales season kicked off on a sunny pre-autumn day Wednesday with the first session of the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase in Lexington, Ky.

A filly by Quality Road topped the session when sold for $1.5 million to Robbie Medina, agent for Joseph Allen.

Offered as Hip 232 by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, agent, the filly is out of Irish One Thousand Guineas winner Marvelous. That daughter of Galileo, who has already produced a stakes winner in Fort Myers, is out of Group 2 winner You'resothrilling, a full-sister to European Horse of the Year and successful sire Giant's Causeway. Marvellous is a full-sister to Group 1 winners Gleneagles and Happily, as well as to group stakes winners Taj Mahal and Coolmore. The session-topper was bred in Kentucky by Orpendale, Chelston and Wynatt.

The session's top colt was Hip 274, a son of 2019 leading sire Into Mischief, sire of this year's Kentucky Derby winner Authentic. Dr. Dermot O'Byrne purchased the top colt for $700,000 from the consignment of Denali Stud, agent. The colt is a half-brother to multiple graded stakes winner Made You Look, out of an Unbridled's Song daughter of champion Serena's Song. The colt was bred in Kentucky by Lewis Thoroughbred Breeding.

Also sold at that price was a daughter of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin. Donato Lanni, agent for Michael Lund Petersen, purchased the filly, offered as Hip 285, from the consignment of Blue Heaven Farm. The filly is out of graded stakes winner Our Khrysty, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Bullsbay from the immediate family of Grade 1 winning millionaire Grecian Flight. The filly was bred in Kentucky by the consignor.

The session opened with an offering of preferred New York-bred yearlings. Those Empire-state breds were topped by a son of Tiznow purchased for $300,000 by Jack Knowlton of Sackatoga Stable, who purchased this year's Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law at the New York Bred Yearlings sale in 2018.

Offered as Hip 135 by Hunter Valley Farm, agent, the Tiznow colt is a half-brother to three stakes horses, including Grade 2 winner Bye Bye Bernie. His dam, the stakes placed Gilded Time mare Eternal Grace, is a half-sister to the dam of New York-bred graded stakes winner Control Group. Hip 135 was bred in New York by Barry R. Ostrager.

The second-highest price in the New York-bred section was Hip 71, a colt by Candy Ride purchased for $295,000 by Dr. Dermot O'Byrne from the consignment of Eaton Sales, agent. The colt is the second foal out of the unraced Any Given Saturday mare Sweet Love, a full sister to graded stakes winner Adventist and a half-sister to three other stakes winners. Hip 71 was bred in New York by Joe Fafone.

The first session grossed $27,166,000 from 172 yearlings sold. The average was $157,942 and the median was $100,000.

“Statistically, we had no expectations,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “It's impossible to know how to compare this sale to the 2019 results. What we hoped to achieve was to have a viable marketplace, to have commerce to be conducted amongst buyers and sellers, to create an environment to help restore some confidence in the marketplace and provide it some stability and foundation for the 2020 yearling sales, and we're only halfway through. I'm going to be cautious in my overall analysis at this point, but I'm very, very encouraged.

“I think anytime you start a sale, there's a little bit of trepidation, and it takes a little bit of time to find its way, to get a little confidence, and I think that was certainly the case today, but as we progressed through the day, people gained more and more confidence,” he continued. “I think people have rolled up their sleeves, both buyers and sellers, and demonstrated that the game's alive and well. Hopefully we'll have a strong day tomorrow.”

Session results are available online. The Selected Yearlings Showcase continues Sept. 10 at 10 a.m..

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First Crop Snapshot: Lord Nelson’s Debut Crop At Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase

The stud career of multiple Grade 1 winner Lord Nelson reaches its next major milepost this week when his first yearlings are offered at a major public auction, starting with the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase on Sept. 9-10.

The 8-year-old son of Pulpit has 17 horses cataloged in the Yearling Showcase, giving the Spendthrift Farm resident the third-most among this year's class of first-crop sires. Many of them are ones we watched grow up last year in previous editions of First Crop Snapshot.

In this edition of First Crop Snapshot, we'll take a look at three of Lord Nelson's youngsters on offer in the Yearling Showcase, and speak to their consignors about how they've developed, what makes them stand out, and what they see in their offerings that comes through from their sire.

Colt out of Love to Score, by Even the Score
Born March 13
Bred in Kentucky by Richard and Connie Snyder
Offered as Hip 220
Consigned by Denali Sud agent

What are your impressions of the colt?

Conrad Bandoroff, Denali Stud: “He's a big, well-balanced, beautiful horse. He's got a lot of bone, a lot of substance and strength to him. He's a colt that's got a really cool kind of attitude and disposition to him. He looks like a horse that's going to take to training, and mentally, he's a horse that loves to work. He's a very nice individual, and he's got a little more size and scope than you would think, being from a brilliant sprinter. He's got the influence of speed from Lord Nelson, but he's got the frame and physique to take that over a route of ground.”

How else has Lord Nelson stamped this one?

Bandoroff: “He's given him that substance from that Pulpit sireline, that strength and substance, and just a lot of athleticism coming through from Lord Nelson himself.”

We checked in on this colt back when he was a weanling. What were some of the discussions like with his breeder, the Snyders, about this colt?

Bandoroff: “Richard's comment to us was this horse loves to train, he loves to work. He relishes it. He's just a horse that when you give him a job, he excels at it and enjoys doing it – just kind of a professional colt that loves to work. That's obviously a great attribute for anyone looking to buy a racehorse.

“The Snyders have some of the best land in Woodford County. That's the same tract of land as WinStar and Buck Pond. Richard raises horses the right way, and he raises horses to become Saturday afternoon horses.”

Colt out of Southern Drifter, by Dixie Union
Born March 21
Bred in Kentucky by Machmer Hall
Offered as Hip 375
Consigned by Machmer Hall Sales, agent

This is one you've bred yourself. How has he come along?

Carrie Brogden, Machmer Hall: “He's a bigger version of what he was as a foal. He was born a spectacular baby, and he's just kind of gone the same way. He is a beast of a horse.”

What was the thought process behind the mating?

Brogden: “I felt like the mares from the foals we've seen from her female family – even though she's by Dixie Union, I felt like having some speed would be very beneficial for her. Obviously, he was a very, very fast horse. She's a big mare, and he 's a big stallion. I thought he was a really pretty stallion and she's a little bit on the coarse side, but we're very pleased with the mating. He's got bone and he's correct. He's a big, strapping horse.”

What else would be good for potential buyers to know?

Brogden: “He's a good-vetting, uncomplicated, good-eating, good-doing-type horse. The people that have come to our farm for visits have had a lot of good feedback about Lord Nelson, and how they're feeling about him.”

Colt out of Goldrush Girl by Political Force
Born March 21
Bred in Kentucky by Spendthrift Farm
Offered as Hip 624
Consigned by Four Star Sales, agent for Spendthrift Farm

What are your thoughts on the colt?

Tony Lacy, Four Star Sales: “This is an outstanding colt. He's a real specimen. I would say that after seeing quite a few Lord Nelsons over the past few years, I think they'll impress a lot of buyers when they see the yearlings this year. They have really blossomed from weanling to yearling. I'm extremely impressed with his stock, and this colt is very much a showcase individual.

“He's got a very active family underneath. I bought a filly out of (third dam) Chasethewildwind a few years ago for European clients, and it's a family that has mass appeal. It might seem a little unorthodox straight out of the gate, but it actually was very appealing to a European buyer, and if you look at the family, it has a lot of crossover. You have runners in Germany, I know King Charlemagne was an extremely talented racehorse, as was Meshaheer. Down in the deeper ends of the family, it was a very European family that has sort of transformed over here, and has been very effective. Obviously, Daredevil is having his moment in the spotlight right now as a sire.”

How has Lord Nelson left his presence on him physically?

Lacy: “He's an extremely good-looking colt, and a lovely, balanced mover. He's got a great attitude, and when you see him in person, I think he's even more impressive than he is on film. I saw this consistency through the Lord Nelsons: leg, scope, length, balance, class. They exude a lot of the attributes you'd love to see in a nice racing prospect. I think Lord Nelson always exhibited that, and he was a lovely racehorse.”

This is another Lord Nelson foal we caught up with last year. What kind of conversations have you had with the Spendthrift Team about him?

Lacy: “We saw this colt very early on in the year. We went out and saw a number of horses on our routine cycle, and they allotted this horse to us. Obviously, we were extremely happy to get him. This is one of the top horses in their crop, and we were delighted to have the opportunity to represent them.”

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