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Four Supplemental Entries Added To Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged four new supplemental entries to its 2020 November Sale. These latest entries (cataloged as Hips 282-285) are all racing/broodmare prospects with current stakes form, offering exciting future racing opportunities for prospective buyers:

Rideforthecause (Hip 282): Four-year-old daughter of Candy Ride is in top current form. She captured the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine on Sept. 12, and then was a narrowly beaten fourth in the G1 E.P. Taylor Stakes on Oct. 18. She is a half-sister to Say the Word, recent winner of the G1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes. Her third dam is multiple champion Dance Smartly, and her immediate family includes leading sire Smart Strike. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by Sam-Son Farm.
Into Mystic (Hip 283): Daughter of Into Mischief has been on top of her game this year at four. She won the Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies Sprint Stakes at Ellis Park on Aug. 2, followed by graded stakes placings in the G3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint Stakes and the G3 Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes on Oct. 9. In that most recent start, she was beaten just a nose by multiple Grade 1 winner Got Stormy. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by Four Stars Sales, agent.
Shippy (Hip 284): Three-year-old filly is a stakes winner this year, having captured the Blue Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth by 4 1/2 lengths in July. Last year at two, she was a narrowly beaten third in the G3 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga. Consigned as racing/broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.
Miss Nondescript (Hip 285): Two-year-old Maryland-bred filly is an undefeated stakes winner. She captured her career debut on Sept. 4, and then won the Maryland Million Lassie Stakes on Oct. 24. A granddaughter of War Front, she is from the immediate family of Royal Ascot group stakes winner Shang Shang Shang. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by Stuart Morris, agent.

Fasig-Tipton will continue to accept approved November Sale supplemental entries through the Breeders' Cup.

The November Sale will be held on Sunday, Nov. 8, in Lexington, Ky. The sale will begin at 2 p.m.

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An Unexpected Storybook Ending for Midnight Bisou

What was it, many have asked, that drew Jeff Bloom to Midnight Bisou at the 2017 OBS April 2-Year-Old Sale?

While it surely wasn’t her unmet reserve from the Keeneland September Sale, where bidding stalled at $19,000, perhaps it was her three-time stakes-winning dam. Diva Delite (Repent) had yet to produce a winner, but as a racehorse she had claimed the GIII Florida Oaks and earned over $300,000.

On the other hand, maybe something in the filly’s :10 1/5 breeze at the sale had caught his eye.

Bloom has been asked the question innumerable times over the past three years. There’s really only one thing he can put his finger on.

“At the end of the day, it was really her presence,” Bloom said. “She had a way about her–her eye, such a smart, keen, personal, friendly touch about her. I was just drawn to her from the second I laid eyes on her. At the breeze show, she really leveled out and had such an efficiency of motion about her that made it clear there was more there. This is the type of horse that you think you can go on with. Of course, you never know for sure, but, as it turns out, it worked out.”

It would have been impossible for anyone to have predicted the ride on which Midnight Bisou would take Bloom, his family and his partners. But now, after a four-year campaign, the daughter of Midnight Lute will sell at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale as a five-time Grade I winner, an Eclipse champion and the highest-earning dirt mare of all time.

With two runner-up efforts behind eventual Grade I winner Dream Tree (Uncle Mo) at two, Midnight Bisou dominated the 3-year-old filly division at Santa Anita with three graded wins, culminating in a 3 1/2-length come-from-behind victory in the GI Santa Anita Oaks.

“The Santa Anita Oaks was a huge accomplishment,” Bloom said. “To win as dominantly as she did was really one of those things that gives you goose bumps. At that point, we thought, ‘Wow, we’ve got arguably one of the best fillies in the country and it looks like there’s no stopping us now.'”

Midnight Bisou wrapped up her 3-year-old season with two more graded victories, never finishing out of the money in her nine starts. But she upped her game further at four, finishing first in seven of eight starts and adding a trio of Grade I wins, highlighted by one of the most heart-pounding stretch battles of the year in the GI Personal Ensign S. with Elate (Medaglia d’Oro).

“The Personal Ensign is one of my all-time favorite races for us with Midnight Bisou, but as a racing fan, to me it’s one of the most special races,” Bloom said. “When they crossed the wire, I thought the nose went to us but it was so hard to tell. Time just stands still. When they flashed our number up there, I can tell you I was floating on air. Really more than anything, I was so happy for Midnight Bisou. It’s what horse racing is all about.”

After connections made the decision to race one more season, scratching her from the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale on the morning of the GI Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff, the newly-crowned Eclipse winner crossed the globe to make her 5-year-old debut this year in the $20-million Saudi Cup, where she closed to finish an ultra-game second behind fellow champion Maximum Security (New Year’s Day).

“That was one of the most thrilling, rewarding experiences of my lifetime to see her show up and go across the world and run second against the best racehorses,” Bloom said. “It made us feel like, yeah, this is all working out the way it’s supposed to.”

Fate soon intervened.

After another win in the GII Fleur de Lis S. June 27 and a close second in the Personal Ensign Aug. 1, Midnight Bisou was expected to prime for a final appearance in the Breeders’ Cup with a match-up against rival Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) in the Distaff, or perhaps even a start in the GI Classic. But during her final work before shipping to Lexington for the GI Juddmonte Spinster S., an injury forced her connections to choose an early retirement.

“We were devastated,” Bloom said. “We had more to do. She deserved to have that Breeders’ Cup trophy sitting on the mantle. It’s hard to get your head around that this is how it’s finishing. But at the end of the day, we found out she’s going to be fine and this in no way is going to affect anything as it relates to her being a broodmare, so we’ll take advantage of knowing that we had an incredible ride and she’s going to be happy and be able to shine at the Night of Stars and hopefully have a banner second career.”

Midnight Bisou retired with earnings well over $7 million and never finished out of the money in any of her 22 career starts for co-owners Bloom Racing, Madaket Stables LLC and Allen Racing LLC.

The champion has had several pedigree updates since her last time through the auction ring, with her half-brother Stage Left (Congrats) now a black-type-placed winner. Her dam, Diva Delite, sold for $1.2 million at last year’s Fasig-Tipton November Sale, carrying a colt by Justify, and this year was bred to Medaglia d’Oro.

When Midnight Bisou sells as Hip 185 with the Elite Sales consignment Nov. 8, Bloom said he won’t be unsettled by what could have been the day before at the Breeders’ Cup, but instead will find peace in remembering the ride of a lifetime he enjoyed with his family and his $80,000 purchase-turned-over $7-million dollar earner.

“It’s impossible to put into words what this ride has meant,” he admitted. “This game is my whole life. She changed my life, my family’s life, my partners’ lives. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t appreciate and understand how fortunate I am that this came, that this experience was handed to me, and I’ll forever be grateful and appreciative.”

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Sam-Son Farm Announces Upcoming Dispersal Of Breeding And Racing Stock

Sam-Son Farm, one of the most celebrated and successful Thoroughbred operations in North America, announced today that it will be dispersing its breeding and racing stock during the next 12-18 months.

Sam-Son is partnering with the Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland organizations to present this rare opportunity for buyers to acquire world-class racing talent and breeding stock from one of the true breed-to-race operations in the business.

Ernie Samuel founded Sam-Son Farm in 1972 and built it into a world-renowned racing and breeding operation. After his death in 2000, his daughter Tammy Samuel-Balaz took over the reins at Sam-Son and led the farm to numerous victories and awards until her own passing in 2008. Today the farm is run by farm manager Dave Whitford and racing manager, Tom Zwiesler, under the leadership of owners, Rick Balaz (President), Mark Samuel (CEO) and Kim Samuel, who have sustained and built upon the farm's sterling reputation and legacy of success. After serious consideration and discussion, the owners have unanimously decided to initiate an orderly dispersal and to step back from active participation in the racing and breeding world.

Sam-Son Farm has bred and raced 44 graded stakes winners in the famed red and gold silks, including 37 classic winners, and 14 Grade 1 winners. The legendary operation has garnered 84 Sovereign Awards and won four Eclipse Awards, including the 2019 Sovereign Awards for Owner and Breeder of the Year.

The Samuel/Balaz families commented as follows; “We are enormously proud of the quality and longevity of Sam-Son Farm and have enjoyed nurturing and celebrating every stage of the equine cycle from breeding, to raising, to racing, to retirement and often, returning to the breeding shed. Our horses have given generations of our family such fulfillment and excitement over the years and we felt that the time had come, after five decades, to now share that legacy with the world. It was a bittersweet decision but one that we are committed to pursuing with integrity, transparency and respect. Our horses and our amazing, dedicated employees deserve no less.”

Sam-Son has seen its iconic red and gold silks carried by such champions as Dance Smartly, the first Canadian-owned and -bred horse to win a Breeders' Cup race and who, in her undefeated 3-year-old season of 1991, became just the second filly in history to win the Canadian Triple Crown.

Other champions include Breeders' Cup winner Chief Bearhart, Eclipse Award winner Sky Classic; Dancethruthedawn, Quiet Resolve, Rainbow's for Life, Ruling Angel, Silken Cat, Soaring Free, Wilderness Song and many more.

Sam-Son also bred and raced Grade 1 winner and influential sire Smart Strike, a half-brother to Dance Smartly. The son of champion Sire Mr. Prospector had a magnificent career at stud. A true sire of sires, Smart Strike topped the American General Sire List in 2007 and 2008 and was inducted into the Canadian Racing Hall of Fame in 2008.

Sam-Son's dispersal program will debut at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton November Sale with two stunning racing/broodmare prospects and two outstanding in-foal mares. This consignment will consist of 2019 Canadian champion 3-year-old filly Desert Ride; recent Grade 2 winner Rideforthecause; stakes winner and track record holder Desert Isle in foal to American Pharoah and the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Shared Account in foal to Speightstown.

Rideforthecause, a lightly raced daughter of Candy Ride (ARG) out of the Giant's Causeway mare Danceforthecause notched her first stakes win on Sept. 12 of this year in the G2 Canadian Stakes, at Woodbine. She represents one of the oldest and by far the most successful family in our program, dating back to none other than foundation broodmare, No Class. This filly's star is on the rise, making her a magnificent racing and breeding opportunity.

Woodbine Oaks winner Desert Ride dates back to Oleana through five generations, giving her the unique distinction of being a descendant of the oldest family in our program. She is a daughter of the Distorted Humor mare Fun in the Desert who herself is a half-sister to champion Eye of the Leopard. Desert Isle is by leading broodmare sire Bernardini and is also a member of this family. She is a half-sister to Eye of the Leopard, making her a daughter of the champion filly and broodmare Eye of the Sphynx.

Sam-Son will also offer Shared Account, the first Breeders' Cup winner and dam of a Breeders' Cup winner to ever be offered at public auction. The accomplished daughter of Pleasantly Perfect captured the 2010 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf and is in foal to Speightstown, so she is carrying a full sibling to Sharing, winner of the 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Incidentally, both Pleasantly Perfect and Speightstown were also Breeders' Cup winners, making this offering a genetic masterpiece that is surely primed and ready to yield future generations of top-class racehorses.

“Sam-Son Farm has been an iconic name in Thoroughbred racing and breeding for nearly half a century. This program has produced numerous Grade 1 winners, champions and Hall of Fame racehorses. Sam-Son horses have had a profound influence in top pedigrees around the world and will continue to do so for many generations. Although saddened to see them dispersing their Thoroughbred holdings, we are honored to assist them in this process.” stated Boyd Browning, president and chief executive officer of Fasig-Tipton Co.

Sam-Son Farm will present its remaining in-foal mares at the 2021 Keeneland January Horses of all Ages Sale. This consignment currently stands at 21 and will feature a unique audio-video presentation of each individual mare on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 9. This quality group includes Grade 1 producers Danceforthecause and Song of the Lark as well as young stakes-winning mares Checkered Past, Dance Again, Deceptive Vision, Mythical Mission, Smartyfly and Southern Ring. Covering sires include American Pharoah, Candy Ride (ARG), Into Mischief, Kitten's Joy, Speightstown. and Street Sense.

“Keeneland and Sam-Son Farm have enjoyed a long, successful relationship,” Keeneland President-Elect and Interim Head of Sales, Shannon Arvin said. “Over the years, a number of Sam-Son horses have raced here, and the farm received the prestigious Keeneland Tray during the 2005 Spring Meet to recognize its graded stakes success – a milestone that only 20 owners have reached in track history. We are privileged that Sam-Son has entrusted Keeneland to offer this distinguished group of mares at the January Sale.”

This announcement represents a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest into some of the most successful and lasting bloodlines in North-America that, until now, had been very difficult to access.

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Fasig-Tipton Announces COVID-19 Protocols For Kentucky October And November Sales

In advance of the upcoming Kentucky October Yearling Sale and The November Sale in Lexington, Ky., Fasig-Tipton has announced the following COVID-19 protocols will be in place in accordance with Kentucky regulations:

Screening measures, including temperature checks and health screening questions, will be in place to gain admittance to the sales grounds for all staff, participants and attendees;
Cloth face coverings are required in accordance with U.S. CDC recommendations;
Participants will not be allowed to congregate. At least six feet of distance must be maintained between people;
Limited seating capacity in the sales pavilion;
Walk up food service only will be available on the sales grounds;
Valet parking will not be available;
Increased cleaning and disinfection procedures will be implemented with regular sanitation of high touch surfaces at least every two hours;
Frequent hand washing with soap and water for at least 20 seconds is recommended for all attendees;

The health and safety of sale participants is of paramount importance. These guidelines are intended as a supplement to assist with safe operations during the COVID-19 pandemic and are subject to change.

The Kentucky October Yearling Sale will be held on Monday through Thursday, Oct. 26-29. The November Sale will be held Sunday, Nov. 8.

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