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Moyo Honey Tops Fasig-Tipton December Digital Sale

Fasig-Tipton's December Digital Selected Sale–the company's largest digital sale to date–closed Tuesday, Dec. 13, with 97 horses of all ages grossing better than $1.9 million. A total of 358 bidders registered for the sale, with a total of 2,535 bids placed on the 129 horses on offer. The digital platform hosted better than 30,000 between Dec. 8 and 13.

Elicia Rankin signed for the sale's top offering, the 10-year-old Moyo Honey (Mizzen Mast), who sold for $340,000 in foal to leading sire Gun Runner. Moyo Honey was making her third trip through a Fasig-Tipton 'ring', having improved into a $70,000 graduate of the 2014 Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale after making $25,000 at the October Yearling Sale the fall prior. Third in the 2016 GII Bayakoa H., the mare hails from the female family of Grade I winners Greenwood Lake, Success Express and Whitmore's Conn. Paramount Sales consigned Moyo Honey.

Rankin credits her daughter, owner Gayla Rankin, with encouraging her to get into Thoroughbred ownership and for introducing her to Fasig-Tipton Digital.

“It was very easy to use,” Rankin said of the platform. “I'm extremely pleased with my purchase.”

The sale's most active buyer as MWG LLC, who signed for 14 lots for a total of $202,500, while Town & Country Farms and Gary Broad were busy acquiring mares for new Walmac sire Pinehurst, who was also purchased out of a Fasig-Tipton Digital Sale.

Shannon Potter of Town & Country said, “We were very happy to be able to find some quality mares on Fasig Digital to support our new stallion Pinehurst. I think [Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales] Leif [Aaron] and the Fasig-Tipton team did a wonderful job recruiting some quality product for availability to purchase this time of year.”

Leading consignor Carrie Brogden is another top consignor who is committed to this type of bidding and selling platform.

“Mark my words, I will try to sell all of our reasonably priced pregnant mares in digital sales,” she said. “The difference in stress and risk to pregnancy is astonishing and I am already thrilled with the pricing.”

Others to fetch in excess of six figures were Taylor Made's Kerry's Ring (Kitten's Joy), who sold for $150,000 to Kittiwake Equine in foal to Horse of the Year Authentic; a weanling colt by Omaha Beach that attracted $130,000 from WKY Thoroughbreds from the Taylor Made consignment; and the $100,000 Pinehurst Stallion Mares paid for Ryan's Rocket (Street Sense), also from Taylor Made and sold in foal to the late Flatter.”

Aaron pronounced himself extremely pleased with the performance of Fasig-Tipton Digital in its first year.

“The December Digital Selected Sale was our largest digital catalogue to date, and it marked the close of an incredibly successful year for the Digital platform,” he said. “Buyers and sellers have been very supportive of Fasig-Tipton Digital, we've sold 279 horses in our first year to the tune of around $10 million. We still have work to do but this first year has shown us that there is a need for this segment of the horse business and we look forward to expanding upon that success in 2023. This is just the beginning for Fasig-Tipton Digital.”

Entries are now open or the March Digital Sale to be held Mar. 2-7, 2023. The 2023 digital sales calendar may be viewed here.

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Class of 2017: Grading the Rising Stars

Each year, the team at the TDN designates horses early in their career who display enough promise to become an eventual graded-stakes winner. In 2017, a total of 80 horses racing on North American soil received the honor, but how many actually went on to achieve success?

The class is led by the achievements of its lone Eclipse Award winner, 2020 champion turf female Rushing Fall (More Than Ready). A 2-year-old in 2017, the half-sister to SW & MGSP Milam (Street Sense) earned her tag with a half-length defeat of fellow 2017 'Rising Star' classmate Daddy Is A Legend (Scat Daddy) at Belmont Park. Two starts later she would take the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and take the second-most votes behind Caledonia Road (Quality Road) to be champion 2-year-old filly. Rushing Fall raced only four time as a 3-year-old but earned 3 wins and a second, capping her season off with a score in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. She added two more wins at the highest level as a 4-year-old in 2019 before retiring as a 5-year-old with an impressive final record of 15-11-3-0, six of those being grade ones in four consecutive years, and earnings of $2,893,000. Rushing Fall was purchased by M.V Magnier's Coolmore connections for $5.5 million out of the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars sale.

The most successful colt of the 2017 'Rising Star' class, Mckinzie (Street Sense) didn't debut until late in his 2-year-old year, taking a maiden special weight event at Santa Anita in late October before immediately making an impact with a win via disqualification over future MGISP Solomini (Curlin) in the GI Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity. Though he missed the Triple Crown series as a 3-year-old, McKinzie returned in the fall of 2018 to take the GI Pennsylvania Derby and would finish the year with a win in the GI Malibu S. He would put up one more grade-one win in the 2019 Whitney S. before finishing his career in the fall of 2020 with a record of 18-8-6-0 and earnings of $3,473,360. McKinzie now stands at Gainesway and had his first weanling sell at this year's Keeneland November Sale.

Four more members of the class won multiple times at the grade-one level: Paradise Woods (Union Rags), current WinStar Farm stallion Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), Separationofpowers (Candy Ride {Arg}), and Moonshine Memories (Malibu Moon). Six other 'Rising Stars' of 2017 would go on to win once against grade-one company: Battle of Midway (Smart Strike), current Hill 'n' Dale Farms stallion Army Mule (Friesan Fire), Pavel (Creative Cause), Lady Ivanka (Tiz Wondeful), Mia Mischief (Into Mischief), and Sporting Chance (Tiznow).

Several notable horses, while not grade-one winners, would place at the level multiple times. Perhaps most notably is 2018 Canadian Horse of the Year and 2017 Canadian champion 2-year-old Wonder Gadot (Medaglia d'Oro) who took both the Queen's Plate S. and the Prince of Wales S. as part of the Canadian Triple Crown following a second-place finish to dual Eclipse Award winner Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) in the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks. She would be purchased for $2,000,000 by Japan's KI Farm at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars Sale.

The aforementioned Daddy Is A Legend would hit the board twice in grade-one company behind both Rushing Fall and 2019 champion turf female Uni (GB) (More Than Ready).

There were 16 'Rising Stars' in 2017 who would go on to achieve success in grade two or three events–led by millionaire and current Spendthrift Farm stallion Coal Front (Stay Thirsty).

In total, 28/80 horses who received the 'Rising Star' honor in 2017 would win a graded-stakes race, or 35%. By including those horses that placed in graded events, that number jumps to 49/80, of 61%. An additional nine horses would win at the stakes level and five would be stakes placed. Of the 80, only 17 failed to earn black type in their careers.

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Racehorses Lead the Way at Fasig-Tipton December Sale

The top six sellers at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age Sale Tuesday were all racehorses, led by the 3-year-old gelding Radical Right (First Samurai) (Hip 281), who brought $260,000 from Tom Kagele.

The Richard Shultz homebred is a three-time winner and entered the sale off a second in the City of Laurel S. Nov. 26 for trainer Dale Capuano. He was consigned by Northview Stallion Station.

Trainer Mike Maker was very active, purchasing four racehorses, including the second highest-priced offering Heldish (Great Notion) (Hip 243), who summoned $160,000. His four purchases totaled $437,000 with an average of $109,250.

The highest-priced weanling was a $75,000 filly (Hip 139) from the first crop of Grade I winner Global Campaign, bought by Wellspring Stables LLC. The most expensive broodmare was In My Time (Scat Daddy) (Hip 113), who sold in foal to Practical Joke for $62,000. She was purchased by trainer Wayne Potts, acting as agent for Barak Farm.

In total, 172 horses grossed $3,233,600 with an average of $18,800 and median of $10,000. Fifty-six horses failed to meet their reserves for an RNA rate of 24.5%.

During last year's sale, which was bolstered by the 86-horse dispersal of Joseph Becker, 261 of the 332 horses on offer sold for $3,905,100. The average was $14,962 and the median was $10,000. Seventy-one horses failed to sell for an RNA rate of 21.38%. The 2021 renewal was topped by maiden 2-year-old Safalow's Mission (Mission Impazible), who brought $130,000 from New York-based trainer Linda Rice, acting on behalf of Thelma and Louise Stable.

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Mor Spirit Colt, $700K Juvenile, Set For Hanshin Debut

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this Saturday running at Hanshin Racecourse. Sunday's focus is on Tokyo Racecourse which hosts the G1 Longines Japan Cup and features some of Japan's best middle-distance horses taking on four talented runners from Europe. Read our preview here:

Saturday, November 26, 2022
4th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($96k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
TILL DAWN (c, 2, Mor Spirit–Follow My Tail, by Indian Charlie) is the first Japanese starter for his freshman sire, by the expat sire and now Japan-based Eskendereya. A half-brother to the New Mexico-bred MSP Proofsinthepuddin (Marking) and SP Red Raider (Roll Hennessy Roll), the Apr. 27 foal was a $160,000 Fasig-Tipton July yearling last summer who matured into the priciest of Mor Spirit's first-crop juveniles (30 sold, 37 ring) when hammering to trainer Hideyuki Mori for $700,000 at OBS March (:9 4/5). There is pedigree to boot, as the colt's second dam is European Group 3 winner and U.S. listed winner Freefourracing (French Deputy), herself responsible for a pair of black-type winners as well as the dam of SW/GSP Dance Code (Honor Code). B-Brad King (KY)

 

 

 

AWESOME RESULT (f, 2, Justify–Blossomed, by Deputy Minister) looks to become the eighth winner from nine to the races for her dam, whose daughter Sippican Harbor (Orb) upset the 2018 GI Spinaway S. at Saratoga and was sold to Springhouse Farm for $425,000 in foal to Honor Code at the Keeneland November Sale a couple of months later. Blossomed is also the dam of Grade III-placed Bodacious Babe (Mineshaft), who is responsible for the talented Japanese-based Ju Taro (Arrogate), winner of three of his seven starts and a latest five-length allowance scorer over this dirt track Nov. 13. B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt (KY)

 

 

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