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What’s In a Name: Incitato

Mad Roman Emperor Caligula tried to make his favorite horse INCITATUS a consul, according to legend–and the accounts of maybe partisan historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio.

Clearly aware of this spectacular milestone of executive overreach, Dante Zanelli’s wife Yolanda Del Rosario gave the Italian version of the name–INCITATO–to the colt by GOLDENCENTS out ZABEEL SARAY (by GIROLAMO) her husband bought at Fasig Tipton as a yearling last October. INCITATO, whose literal translation would be “incited” or “spurred”, won his maiden spectacularly in Peru in October and now goes for a Grade 2 on Saturday. Let’s hope this tenacious colt with a powerful closing style creates his own legend.

IN PERU: Incitato, c, 2, Goldencents–Zabeel Saray, by Girolamo. Monterrico, 10-17, Maiden, 1900mT. B-Columbiana Farm LLC (KY). *$7,000 Ylg ’19 FTKOCT.

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Fasig-Tipton October Sale Concludes

LEXINGTON, KY – The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale–and the yearling sales season–concluded Thursday in Lexington with the market continuing to show resilience despite a plethora of worldwide uncertainties.

Through four sessions, 961 yearlings grossed $32,743,700. The average of $34,073 was down 10.2% from last year’s sale-record mark of $37,955. The median of $15,000 rose 15.4% from the 2019 figure of $13,000. With 265 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate was 21.6%. It was 24.5% a year ago.

“All in all, I think it has to be considered a successful week,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning Thursday evening. “If someone would have told me at the beginning of the week, or the beginning of the month, or certainly three months ago that the average would be down 10% and the median would be up 15% and the RNA rate would decline, I would have signed up for that immediately with no hesitation whatsoever. It was a legitimate market for four days. The buyers who were trying to buy the perceived better type horses said it was very difficult to buy. There was lots of competition for those horses. We are not going to sit here and say everything is lovely. Anytime a sale has a median of $15,000, it’s tough to make money. The economics of raising a yearling means there were a lot of unprofitable yearlings in this sale. But I think that’s been the case for several years.”

Through four sessions, Fasig-Tipton sold 76 horses via internet bids for approximately $2.5 million.

Brian Graves of Gainesway, which consigned two of the five yearlings to sell for $200,000 or over during Thursday’s session, said polarization was a continuing reality in the marketplace.

“It’s thin and everything has to be perfect,” Graves said. “You have to have a really good physical, you have to have a little sire power and you have to have a clean vet. And if you have those three things, you can get a fair to a good price for your horse. Everything else is very thin and shaky and there just isn’t any flexibility after that. Really it’s a free fall after that at this point in time with all the uncertainty and the COVID situation only makes it worse.”

Still, buyers were there for the perceived quality offerings.

Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan, who made Thursday’s highest bid when going to $310,000 to acquire a son of Classic Empire, said, “It’s a lot of work because it’s so spread out–1,500 horses over four days–but you do find some nice horses who missed earlier sales for whatever reason and sometimes a horse who didn’t sell at September comes back here, like that sale-topper yesterday [$600,000 son of Uncle Mo]. He was a beautiful horse. He doubled his price from September to now. It doesn’t happen often, but he was a really good colt. It’s the same old story. If you have a really good horse who vets clean and stands the critique of everybody, you’ll do well.”

Ryan has made almost every stop on the yearling sales scene across the globe, including at Tattersalls and Keeneland.

“I think it’s amazing,” Ryan said of the results he has seen this fall. “I think it just shows you how resilient we are. Thank God that racing resumed back in May because it’s the engine that drives everything. And without racing, we are nothing. But purses have gone back up again in New York, they are back to pre-COVID levels. So it is amazing, but it also very polarized. We just don’t have enough people who want to race a horse, enough people who want to pay $120 a day to want to run one. There are too many middle men, traders, not enough end-users. And that’s a problem, but it’s been remarkable. Who would have thought it? The uncertainty was unnerving and Fasig here in September was good and Keeneland was solid. But it’s the same story. You’ve got to have a nice horse. But that’s the way it is. People aren’t going to pay for average stock. If they like your horse, you’ll be rewarded.”

With the end of the yearling sales season, Ryan said with a smile, “We get a week off and we’ll be back here next Thursday looking at foals and mares.”

Bidding returns to Newtown Paddocks for Fasig-Tipton’s star-studded November sale Nov. 8.

Ryan Strikes for Classic Empire Colt

Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan went to a session-topping $310,000 to secure a son of Classic Empire on behalf of Seth Klarman. The yearling (hip 1398), who will be trained by Chad Brown, is out of Delay of Game (Bernardini) and from the family of graded winner Sanford and champion Johannesburg.

“He’s a really good colt with a lot of Bernardini in him and a beautiful mover,” Ryan said. “He’s a New York-bred which is nice, but I think he is an open-company class horse. I thought he was the best by the sire that I saw this week–one of the best horses I saw this week. I was surprised to have to go that far for him, but we really wanted him.”

Ryan continued, “Hopefully we will see him at Saratoga next year as a 2-year-old. He’s bred to go two turns, but he looks like a horse who will have natural speed and should be able to run in late summer of his 2-year-old year. We’ve had a lot of luck buying for Mr. Klarman and Chad Brown and I told him this was a horse we had to have and let’s try to get him.”

The yearling was consigned by St George Sales on behalf of his breeder, Dan Hayden’s EKQ Stables.

“I’m very happy with the result,” Hayden said. “I’m delighted that a superior judge like Mike Ryan got him also. He’s a lovely straightforward colt with a lovely motion and balance to him. He’s loaded with quality also. I like what I’m seeing from these Classic Empires.”

Hayden purchased Delay of Game, in foal to Street Sense, for $90,000 at the 2017 Keeneland November sale. The mare was bred and consigned by Godolphin.

“The first thing that appealed to me about the mare was her sire, Bernardini,” Hayden said. “The sky is the limit for his broodmares. I spoke with Danny Mulvihill from Darley who were selling her and he said she was solid with no vices. Kiaran McLaughlin, who trained her, also told me that her race record didn’t necessarily reflect her talent. He said she was a runner. It was also very appealing that she had such a deep family going back to Johannesburg and, of course, Pulpit through that great mare Yarn.”

Hayden continued, “Physically she’s a lovely, scopey, old-fashioned laid-back mare that just throws everything into her foals. They have great mental attitudes and are confident animals just like her.”

The mare’s Street Sense filly, now named Spa Ready, sold for $260,000 at last year’s Keeneland September sale. Spa Ready broke her maiden first-time out at Belmont Park for Wise Racing shortly after half-brother RNA’d for $110,000 at last month’s Keeneland September sale.

“The Street Sense filly could walk the pants off anyone and was absolutely bombproof mentally,” Hayden said. “The Classic Empire is the same and the mare has an absolute standout weanling filly by Accelerate.”

Of the yearling’s first trip through the sales ring at Keeneland last month, Hayden said, “I think he just came into the September sale a slight bit immature and just didn’t hit the mark in a slightly nervous market. He has matured well physically in the meantime and Archie St George and his whole team did their usual superb job and here we are. Spa Ready also broke her maiden impressively at Belmont first time out for Chad Brown and looks like she has a promising future. It’s always a help when they end up in the hands of a trainer like Chad.”

Empire Maker Yearlings Prove Popular

Gainesway sent a trio of yearlings, bred on foal shares, by its late sire Empire Maker through the ring at Fasig-Tipton Thursday and came away with three six-figure sales.

“Empire Maker is a super broodmare sire,” Gainesway’s Brian Graves said. “Everybody knows it and that only helps. People would like to have one and their chances to do that are running out.”

Empire Maker, who died in January, is the broodmare sire of 21 graded stakes winners, including Grade I winners Arklow (Arch), Separationofpowers (Candy Ride {Arg}) and Outwork (Uncle Mo), as well as Canadian champion Avie’s Flatter (Flatter).

Bloodstock agent Tonja Terranova went to $200,000 to acquire a colt by the 2003 GI Belmont S. winner (hip 1173). The yearling is out of stakes-placed Bagatelle Park (Speightstown) and was bred in partnership with Dr. H. Steve Conboy.

“The colt was just everything you’d want to see,” Graves said. “He was leggy, he had good balance and a good walk.”

X-Men Racing purchased an Empire Maker filly (hip 1372), also for $200,000. Bred in partnership with Happy Alter, the Florida-bred bay is out of Curlin’s Mistress (Curlin), a full-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Curlin’s Approval and a half to multiple graded-placed ‘TDN Rising Star’ Apologynotaccepted (Fusaichi Pegasus).

Rounding out the trio of six-figure yearlings was hip 1197, a filly out of graded winner Belleski (Polish Number) who was bred in partnership with Thoreau, LLC. Down Neck Stable acquired the bay for $155,000.

“Both the fillies were very good physicals,” Graves said. “Unfortunately these days, if you don’t have that going for you, it’s impossible to get a good result.”

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Quality Sells At Fasig-Tipton

LEXINGTON, KY – While Into Mischief secured the top lots during Monday’s first session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, it was Quality Road in charge during Tuesday’s second session as Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners went to a session-topping $560,000 to secure a son of the Lane’s End stallion. The day kicked off with a daughter of Quality Road bringing what was ultimately the session’s co-second-highest price of $230,000.

Through two sessions, Fasig-Tipton has sold 489 yearlings for a gross of $16,390,500. The two-day average is $33,518, down 12.7% from last year’s corresponding figure, while the median remained unchanged at $15,000.

“There was solid trade again today,” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning said Tuesday evening. “There was a very respectable RNA rate, the average was down slightly from last year at this point. All in all, I think there has been a legitimate marketplace that has been fair for both buyers and sellers.”

The buy-back rate continued to trend down from 2019, with the two-day figure resting at 21.4% following Tuesday’s action.

“The credit for [the buy-back rate] goes to the sellers for being pretty realistic in their expectations,” Browning said. “Both the owners and the consignors/agents who have educated their principals as to the realities of the marketplace. So the buy-back rate has certainly been at an acceptable level and there are horses who continue to get sold post-sale that aren’t reflected in that figure.”

Through the first two days of the four-day auction, 10 yearlings have sold for $200,000 or over, compared to 21 a year ago.

The auction continued the familiar refrain of market polarization, with the perceived quality lots attracting plenty of attention and horses below that mark struggling.

“It’s been soft, but when the right one shows up, the money shows up,” trainer Bruce Levine summed up the market at Fasig-Tipton this week. Levine purchased a colt by Pioneeof the Nile for the session’s co-second highest price of $230,000.

Internet bidding has produced 43 sales during the first two days of the sale, with 27 yearlings selling online Tuesday added to 16 Monday.

“Some of those folks would have contacted somebody, used an agent, would have phone bid, or figured out another way to bid, but clearly certain people are comfortable in participating via the internet,” Browning said. “It’s another way to provide bidding opportunities and options for those who want to participate in that fashion.”

The October sale continues through Thursday with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m.

Eclipse Hoping for Another ‘Great’ Colt
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners will be heading to the Breeders’ Cup in a couple weeks with Grade I-winning juvenile Gretzky the Great and the operation added a Quality Road half-brother to that colt to its roster when bloodstock agent Jacob West signed the ticket on hip 498 at $560,000. The yearling was bred and consigned by Dave Anderson’s Anderson Farms.

“It makes sense,” West, bidding outside behind the pavilion, said of the purchase. “Eclipse has the brother, and this colt was the star of the show here in our opinion. He is by a proven sire in Quality Road that Eclipse has had a lot of success with and he’s a half to a horse we know a lot about, obviously, and have had success with. He’s from a good breeder in Dave Anderson and his operation.”

West expects the June 4 colt will only continue to improve.

“Being a June foal, Dave did right by him, backing him up into this sale and giving him as much time as he could to let him grow up and into himself. But I still think the horse has a lot more maturing to do and he’s going to look like a completely different horse even 60 days from now.”

Of the yearling’s final price, West said, “We knew we weren’t going to walk in here and steal him. He was a pretty obvious horse for everybody.”

The SF Bloodstock and Starlight spearheaded partnership which has been so active buying well-bred yearling colts this fall, was underbidder on the youngster while doing their bidding upstairs in the pavilion.

Gretzky the Great RNA’d for $295,000 at last year’s October sale. Campaigned by Eclipse and Gary Barber and trained by Mark Casse, the colt broke his maiden at Woodbine in August and added the Soaring Free S. just weeks later. He booked his ticket to the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf with a 3 1/4-length victory in the Sept. 20 GI Summer S., which was run as the Keeneland September sale was already halfway done.

“We pointed this horse to this sale because he was a June foal and we just wanted to give him some more time,” Anderson said. “We were hoping that his brother would continue to do well and the stars were aligned.”

Anderson, who sold a Medaglia d’Oro filly (hip 319) for $1.6 million at last month’s Keeneland September sale, purchased Pearl Turn (Bernardini) for $310,000 at the 2016 Keeneland November sale. Now 10, the mare was multiple stakes placed while earning $182,560 on the racetrack.

“At the time, I didn’t realize that Bernardini was going to go on and be as good a broodmare as he is,” Anderson said of his 2016 purchase. “That was just a plus. But she comes from an old Calumet family that my dad had a couple of mares out of and that family meant a lot to me. The mare could really run, though it didn’t show it on paper, but she had a lot of ability. Any time you can find a mare bred like her that had a lot of ability, you’ve got to take advantage of it.”

Anderson added Pearl Turn is currently in foal to Nyquist’s sire Uncle Mo and due early.

Quality Road Filly Kickstarts Tuesday
A filly by Quality Road (hip 389), the first horse through the ring Tuesday morning, got the second session of the October sale off to a quick start when selling for $230,000 to the bid of pinhooker Ciaran Dunne. The yearling is out of the stakes-placed Moonlight Sky (Sky Mesa), a half-sister to champion Abel Tasman (Quality Road). She was bred by China Horse Club International and consigned Tuesday by Claiborne Farm.

“It’s obvious,” Dunne said of the yearling’s appeal. “She’s a Quality Road filly and we have had a lot of success with Quality Road through the years. For me, he is the best sire in the country. It’s a wonderful family. She needs to mature, but she’s a late foal, so hopefully she will.”

Dunne purchased a colt by Quality Road for $240,000 on behalf of a pinhooking partnership at last year’s October sale and the youngster (hip 1018) sold for $1.25 million at this year’s OBS Spring Sale. Dunne’s Wavertree Stables also sold subsequent multiple Grade I winner Bellafina (Quality Road) and multiple graded winner Blofeld (Quality Road).

Dunne did his bidding on the yearling from the back row of the sales pavilion, ultimately seeing off a group led by Becky Thomas and Al Pike sitting just a few rows in front of him.

China Horse Club, which co-owned 2017 GI Kentucky Oaks winner and champion 3-year-old filly Abel Tasman, purchased Moonlight Sky for $675,000 at that year’s Fasig-Tipton November sale. The yearling, a May 22 filly, is the mare’s first foal. She was not bred last year, but was bred back to Curlin this past spring.

“That was a great result,” Claiborne’s Jill Gordon said. “The filly has always been very straightforward at the farm and she was the same up here. She is a beautiful mover and she’s got a lot of class.”

Abel Tasman, who sold for $5 million to Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier at the 2019 Keeneland January sale, produced a colt by Galileo (Ire) this year.

Levine Strikes for Pioneerof the Nile Colt

Bruce Levine vetted just one horse at Newtown Paddocks this week, a colt by Pioneerof the Nile, and that yearling (hip 680) will join the trainer’s New York-based string after selling for $230,000 Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton.

“I just thought he was a neat-looking colt,” Levine said after signing the ticket on behalf of an undisclosed client. “He’s out of a graded stakes-winning mare. And the sire–how are you going to knock him?”

The bay colt is out of Savvy Supreme (Distorted Humor), who is a full-sister to Grade I winner Commentator. Co-bred by WinStar Farm and Joe Minor’s JSM Equine, the yearling was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency.

WinStar purchased Savvy Supreme for $520,000 as a weanling at the 2008 Keeneland November sale and she won the 2011 GIII Monmouth Oaks in that operation’s colors. Carrying this Pioneerof the Nile colt, she RNA’d for $170,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale. The yearling’s full-brother sold for $350,000 to Repole and St. Elias at the 2019 Keeneland September sale.

Of the colt’s final price Tuesday, Levine said, “I think it was just me and one other person and we kept going from $75,000 or $80,000, he just kept chasing me. I would have gone a little higher, but not much higher. I was at Keeneland, we bought a couple, and I wanted to get one or two more. But this was a horse I liked and he was actually the only one I vetted. We’ll keep our fingers crossed.”

Not This Time Colt Helps Lange Weather Storm
Lee Lange and Don Credeur were on the road home to Louisiana Tuesday as Hurricane Zeta bore down on the state, but before they left Lexington the two men watched their colt by Not This Time sell for $170,000 to Team Casse. Lange and Credeur purchased Pop Singer (Scat Daddy), with this colt in utero, for $14,000 at the Fasig-Tipton February sale in 2019.

“She was such a beautiful mare herself and she was by Scat Daddy, so those were the two things that appealed to me and my partner, Don Credeur,” Lange said Tuesday. “I thought we stole her at that price.”

Credeur added with a laugh, “We just met the guy we bought her from and naturally he wants her back.”

Since Lange and Credeur purchased the 7-year-old mare, who was carrying her first foal, Not This Time’s popularity has only grown, helped by the Grade I victory of OBS Spring topper Princess Noor.

“Every time we got a tidbit of news, it was even better,” Lange said of the first-year sire’s exploits.

Lange said they were expecting the yearling would sell in the range of $125,000, so he exceeded expectations, but was making up for what has been a tough year to sell yearlings.

“I sold a couple of 2-year-olds, but up until this point I think we had bought all of our yearlings back,” Lange said.

Credeur said, “We brought five to the Opelousas sale and had to buy them all back.”

Lange, who owns Sunset Stables in Louisiana and is president of the oil pipe company Aztec Pipe, Inc., has about 10 mares, some of which are in partnership with Credeur.

“We only race what we can’t sell,” Lange said.

Of Pop Singer, Lange added, “We still have the mare. She didn’t get in foal last year, but she is back in foal this year to Midshipman.”

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Steady Trade As October Sale Opens

LEXINGTON, KY – The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale opened Monday in Lexington with a day of steady trade and a pair of youngsters by Into Mischief leading the way.

“It was a solid start,” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning said Monday evening. “There was solid trade with plenty of activity. There were no dramatic surprises. Certainly lots of horses got traded and there was a legitimate, reasonable marketplace.”

During Monday’s opening session of the October sale, 248 yearlings sold for $8,393,800. The average of $33,846 dipped 14.6% from the 2019 opening session, while the median held steady at $15,000. With 71 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate was 22.3%. It was 29.3% a year ago.

“The average was down slightly today compared to the overall sale last year, however the median was up and there was a very respectable RNA rate today of 22%, compared to 29% the first day last year,” Browning said. “We hope those same factors continue for the next three days.”

The 2019 October sale cumulative average was $37,955 and the cumulative median was $13,000.

Into Mischief continued to be in demand in the sales ring this fall, with a filly by the Spendthrift stallion topping Monday’s action when selling for $300,000 to Willis Horton Racing.

Juddmonte Farm purchased the day’s second highest offering when going to $260,000 for an Into Mischief colt. The two yearlings were among six to sell for $200,000 or over during the session. Eleven reached that mark at last year’s opener.

With economic and pandemic uncertainties looming across the globe, Archie St. George admitted he had kept expectations for his St. George Sales consignment in check, but he felt the market was weathering the storm.

“It seems solid,” St. George said. “We put good horses through the ring and we’ve sold them at all levels. It’s like everywhere, for a nice horse, there is money. Just because of everything that’s going on, I came in with low expectations. So certainly the Maclean’s Music exceeded our expectations. But we just tried to be as realistic as we could. The name of the game is selling horses, so we seemed to be doing that today. And it seemed to hold solid.”

St. George Sales sent the third highest-priced offering of the day through the ring, with a colt by Maclean’s Music bringing a final bid of $240,000 from bloodstock agent Mike Ryan.

The October sale continues through Thursday with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m.

Into Mischief Filly for Horton

Willis Horton added a filly by Into Mischief to his racing stable when Case Clay signed the ticket at $300,000 to secure hip 202 on behalf of the owner who campaigned champion Will Take Charge. Bred by Allen Poindexter, the filly is out of Kid Majic (Lemon Drop Kid) and is a full-sister to Canadian champion Miss Mischief and a half to stakes-placed Mind Out (Tapit), who sold for $850,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. Kid Majic is also the dam of Rosemonde (Indian Charlie), who produced multiple Grade I placed Rowayton (Into Mischief). The yearling was consigned by Wynnstay Sales.

“She is a lovely filly and from good breeders,” Clay said of the filly’s appeal. “She has a good walk and a good physical. The whole Horton family has a real love and a passion for racing. So they saw her and they liked her and they took a swing at her.”

While the plan is to race the filly, Clay said the Horton family is also thinking long-term with the yearling.

“They were thinking of her potential as a broodmare,” Clay confirmed. “They will give her a try at the racetrack and, even if things don’t go well there, she has great blood and a great family. So it’s a long-term play for racing and then breeding.”

Allen Poindexter purchased Kid Majic as a 2-year-old as part of a racing partnership in 2006.

“I always want more,” Poindexter said with a laugh when asked about the result. “She had a tremendous pedigree and was a very nice filly. I really wouldn’t have been too sad if she hadn’t sold and I would have kept her myself. But hopefully we will have a bunch more out of that mare and I’ll get to keep one eventually. I really didn’t want to sell her, but in this day and time, we have to sell horses.”

The 16-year-old Kid Majic and her 8-year-old daughter Rosemonde were both bred to Tapit this spring.

Poindexter enjoyed another strong result at Fasig-Tipton this year with the $500,000 sale of a colt by Giant’s Causeway at the Selected Yearlings Showcase in September.

Juddmonte Gets Into Mischief

Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farm got involved in the Into Mischief mania when manager Garrett O’Rourke went to $260,0000 to acquire a colt (hip 24) by the Spendthrift stallion early in Monday’s first session of the Fasig-Tipton October sale. The yearling is out of Golden Cropper (Aus) (More Than Ready), a half-sister to ‘TDN Rising Star’ Rubick (Aus) (Encosta de Lago {Aus}), a multiple group winner and successful young sire at Coolmore Australia. Her third dam, Shantha’s Choice (Aus) (Canny Lad {Aus}), produced Redoute’s Choice (Aus) (Danehill).

The yearling was bred by Greg Goodman’s Mt. Brilliant Farm, which purchased Golden Cropper for A$650,000 at the 2016 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. He RNA’d for $375,000 at last month’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale and was consigned Monday by Lane’s End.

“We saw him in September and really liked him, as did a lot of other people,” O’Rourke said. “He just had an issue or two and they dropped the reserve for this sale and we decided to take a chance. He’s a lovely colt; looks fast. He has a stallion’s pedigree and just has a lot of upside. We hope he runs to his pedigree and to his looks. Obviously we have had success with Into Mischief, as many other people have as well. You don’t go buy anything blind, but sometimes you have faith in what the stallion gives you and we think Into Mischief has earned that kind of faith.”

Juddmonte has campaigned three Into Mischief ‘TDN Rising Stars’ to date, including the ill-fated two-time stakes winner Taraz, SW & GSP Honest Mischief–a son of Juddmonte standout Honest Lady–and Mandaloun, who earned his ‘Rising Star’ at first asking at Keeneland Oct. 24.

Maclean’s Music Colt Pays for St. George

Archie St. George’s Brookstone Farm pinhooking partnership purchased a colt by Maclean’s Music for $80,000 at last year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. With the sire’s status on the rise thanks to the Grade I exploits of speedy juvenile Jackie’s Warrior (Maclean’s Music), the yearling (hip 342) was well-received in the Fasig-Tipton sales ring Monday, ultimately selling for $240,000 to bloodstock agent Mike Ryan.

“We bought him in November as a weanling and we aimed him for this sale,” St. George said. “The sire has really done well with Jackie’s Warrior and the family makes sense with Complexity in the second dam. I’d like to thank Mike Ryan and wish Chad Brown and his team the best of luck with him. Hopefully, most importantly, we see him down the road running in big races.”

Hip 342 is the first foal out of Microburst (Awesome Again), a half-sister to Grade I winner Complexity (Maclean’s Music) and to graded winner Valadorna (Curlin), who was second in the 2016 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. He was bred by Susan Moulton, who purchased Microburst with this foal in utero for $275,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale.

Microburst has a weanling colt by Super Saver and was bred back to Vino Rosso.

Tacher Stays Busy at Fasig

Puerto Rican owner Marc Tacher, who is represented by runners across the U.S., purchased four yearlings during Monday’s first session of the October sale, led by a $200,000 son of the late Arrogate (hip 91). Consigned by Peter O’Callaghan’s Woods Edge Farm, the dark bay colt is out of multiple stakes winner Hero’s Amor (Street Hero).

“I liked everything. I liked the conformation. He’s a beautiful horse to look at,” Tacher said of the colt. “He’s obviously by Arrogate, so I really liked his pedigree. He looked like a two-turn horse, a Classic-distance horse. We came to see him quite a few times and to vet him. We were really high on that horse.”

Tacher, part owner of Hipodromo Camarero, also purchased a colt by Keen Ice (hip 252) and a filly by Daredevil (hip 351) both for $100,000 and a colt by Practical Joke (hip 127) for $70,000 Monday.

“This year has been different and it’s hard to gauge,” Tacher said of the market. “So far, the prices I’ve seen are fair for the buyer and the seller. I think, more or less, we are experiencing a solid market. I do think it’s a fair market, but of course it’s not as strong as last year.”

Also this year, Tacher purchased a filly by Frosted (hip 366) for $250,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Now named Paradise Song, the filly is working regularly at Fair Hill. He purchased five juveniles at the OBS Spring sale, led by a colt by Not This Time (hip 953) who was acquired for $575,000. Debuting for Tacher’s Sonata Stable, the juvenile now named Arzak was fifth on debut at Delaware Park Oct. 7 for trainer Mike Trombetta.

In Puerto Rico this year, Tacher has been represented by G1 Puerto Rican Derby winner Persistente (PR) (Console).

Point of Entry Filly Pays for Partners

Ocala horsewoman Michelle Redding partnered with Reiley McDonald and Stori Atchison to acquire a filly by Point of Entry for $13,000 at last year’s Keeneland November sale and the investment paid dividends Monday at Fasig-Tipton when the yearling (hip 60) sold for $160,000 to Selective LLC.

“She’s always been a really nice filly,” Redding said. “She has always had a tremendous, beautiful, catlike walk. She is just a big, physically well-developed filly. She’s very smart with a lot of class about her.”

Of the youngster’s weanling price tag, Redding said, “We were able to get her bought just in a soft time in the market. Sometimes horses slide through the cracks. She was definitely one that was sliding through and we were lucky enough to be standing there and got her bought.”

The yearling is out of Gypsy Princess (Unbridled’s Song), a daughter of multiple graded stakes winner Buffythecenterfold (Capote). She was consigned by McDonald’s Eaton Sales.

Redding said she aims to pinhook about 15 yearlings a year, but admitted this year’s results have been mixed.

“The market was a little rough on us this year,” Redding said. “We had some horses who sold well and some we were quite disappointed in that we felt fell through the cracks this year. It was a bit of a tougher year, so it was good to end it on a good note.”

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