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Strong Opener to Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale

TIMONIUM, MD – The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale got off to a strong start Monday in Timonium as it looks to follow up on a record-setting 2021 renewal.

“It was a very solid opening session to the sale,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “There was diverse bidding activity literally from buyers all around the world participating today. This has become a really solid marketplace where you can sell a quality horse, you can sell a state-bred horse. There was lots of activity at really all price ranges.”

A total of 172 juveniles sold Monday for a gross of $15,755,700. The average of $91,603 dipped slightly from the opening session of 2021, while the median was up 11.1% to $50,000.

Last year's record-setting auction concluded its two-day run with its highest average–$94,375–and highest median–$50,000.

With 59 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate Monday was 25.5%. It was 19% during the first session of the 2021 auction.

Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, bidding on behalf of Michael Lund Petersen made the day's highest bid when going to $725,000 to acquire a filly from the first crop of GI Haskell Invitational winner Girvin. Monday's session topper was consigned by Paul Sharp.

“It's been tough all year,” Lanni said of the 2-year-old market. “It's been a crazy year. Good horses bring a lot of money and it doesn't matter who they are by, if they perform and they look like a racehorse. People want a racehorse. It's good to see the market be so strong.”

Sharp said the traditionally deep buying bench in Timonium can reward sellers.

“This sale has always been like that,” Sharp said. “If you have a horse that's kind of risen to the top, people are very excited about them. And it's a good buyer base. I like to bring meat and potato horses here, they seem to get looked at and do well here.”

The Midlantic sale continues with a final session beginning at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Girvin Filly to Lund Petersen

Donato Lanni, bidding on behalf of Michael Lund Petersen, signed the ticket at $725,000 to acquire a filly from the first crop of GI Haskell Invitational winner Girvin (hip 88). The filly was consigned by Paul Sharp on behalf of Baltimore native John Davison. Erin Wismer purchased the filly on Davison's behalf for $90,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton July sale. She is out of Sweet Pistol (Smart Strike), a daughter of multiple graded stakes winner Pomeroys Pistol (Pomeroy) and a half-sister to multiple graded winner Thousand Words (Pioneerof the Nile).

“She was just a really cool filly,” Lanni said. “She had a lot of class. She did everything they asked her to do and she stayed pretty cool all the way through. I liked her a lot. I showed her to [trainer] Bob [Baffert] and Bob liked her as well.”

Girvin, who stands at Ocala Stud for $6,000, has had a solid spring of results in the sales ring with a half-dozen six-figure juveniles led by a $300,000 colt at the OBS Spring sale.

“I have been impressed by the Girvins I've seen,” Lanni said. “They look like they have speed and they look like they want to go two turns. This is a tough year for freshman sires because there are a lot of really good freshman sires. So he's against Justifys and Bolt d'Oros, but I've been impressed by what I've seen from him.”

Sharp agreed with Lanni's assessment of the offspring of Girvin he's seen.

“They kind of seem to have some class with some precocity,” Sharp said. “They are good-looking horses. They have some scope and look like they can get some distance, too.”

Lund Petersen purchased the top lot at the Midlantic sale in 2019 and 2020. He purchased champion Gamine (Into Mischief) for $1.8 million in 2019 and a $1.1-million son of Uncle Mo in 2020.

“Michael lives down the road and this sale has been lucky for him,” Lanni said. “He likes to be here and it's been fun to have him come to the sale. It's nice to see him be here in his backyard.”

Sharp admitted the filly's final price tag exceeded expectations.

“I had no idea she would bring that much,” Sharp said. “Coming in, we had pegged her at the $300,000 mark, after that we are only guessing. It's a guessing game about who feels the most passionate about the horse. There were several underbidders. And we are definitely thankful for them. Only one person can win, but they definitely never get enough credit, but I like to thank the underbidders.”

 

 

 

Wismer, Davison Form Winning Partnership

Bloodstock agent Erin Wismer and John Davison have turned a chance meeting at Fasig-Tipton a few years ago into a profitable partnership, never more so then when Davison sold a filly by Girvin for $725,000 Monday in Timonium. Wismer had picked the youngster out for Davison, paying $90,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton July sale.

“We met a couple years ago at Fasig-Tipton when we were both bidding on the same horse,” Wismer recalled. “We kept in touch for a couple of years. He is very passionate about the industry, but didn't know a lot about buying horses, so he asked if he came to the sales if I would teach him. He came to the sale and we just started looking at horses and I showed him what I like and what I don't. And he decided he was ready to buy one.”

The partnership's initial investment was a filly by Twirling Candy who was purchased for $40,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September sale. Returned to the ring last spring in Timonium, the filly (hip 468) sold for $200,000.

Hip 88 was Davison's second pinhooking prospect and Wismer admitted the filly's $725,000 exceeded all expectations.

“His wife calls it serendipity,” Wismer said of the partnership. “Because it was ironic that we met and it's ironic that we kept a friendship going, because he's from Baltimore and I'm from Lexington. It's kind of funny how it all happened.”

Asked what she liked about hip 88, who was bred by Airdrie Stud's Brereton Jones, last summer, Wismer explained, “My husband [Troy] works for Airdrie and I love buying Airdrie horses. I love the way they raise them. I had never seen this filly before the sale, but she just walked out and she was so classy and she seemed very intelligent. She had a lot of presence and she was a phenomenal mover.”

Wismer and Davison will be back in action Tuesday with a pair of pinhook prospects.

“We have a Good Magic colt (hip 384) and a Classic Empire filly (hip 556) in tomorrow,” Wismer said. “I love both of them, too.”

While Davison is new to the pinhooking game, his family has been breeding Thoroughbreds in Maryland for three generations.

“His grandfather and his mother have been racing in Maryland for a very long time,” Wismer said. “He is very passionate about Maryland racing.”

Spendthrift, Fletcher Team Up for Bolt Colt

The new partnership of Spendthrift Farm and Frank Fletcher, shut out at OBS last month, officially got started Monday in Timonium with the purchase of a colt by Bolt d'Oro (hip 30) for $675,000.

“He will probably go to [trainer] Brad Cox,” Spendthrift's Ned Toffey said. “We tried to get one or two down at OBS and couldn't get anything, but we are always looking for people to partner up with on colts. Frank is a quality guy who has been doing this for a long time. We are really honored to do something with him. We think we have the right colt.”

The partnership was quick to add a second juvenile to its roster when going to $340,000 to acquire a colt by GI Belmont S. winner Tapwrit (hip 47).

Hip 30 turned in a bullet :10 flat during last week's under-tack show and he is out of Shine Softly (Aldebaran), a daughter of champion Soaring Softly (Kris S.). He was consigned by Pike Racing and was purchased by Al Pike for $90,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

Monday's result continued the hot start to the stud career of Spendthrift's Bolt d'Oro, who has been in demand in the sales ring this spring and who has already been represented by a pair of winners on the racetrack.

“This is as good a start as you could ask for from a young sire,” Toffey said. “It is really remarkable how well they've been received, how they have performed at the sales so far, how they are already performing on the track. It's one thing to do it here, but he's got two winners already. You couldn't ask for him to get off to a better start.”

Toffey said hip 30 was typical of the Bolt d'Oros he has seen so far.

“They tend to have some stretch to them and stand over a lot of ground,” he said. “But they are just very athletic, that's the bottom line. We see athletes come in all shapes and sizes, these are big beautiful classy horses. But the things that you are seeing most of all is ability. This track will separate them a little bit. So if they are doing :10 flats, it's pretty strong.”

 

 

 

WinStar Gets Into Mischief

WinStar Farm's David Hanley signed the ticket at $600,000 to acquire a colt by Into Mischief (hip 70) from the de Meric Sales consignment at the Midlantic sale Monday. Out of multiple stakes winner and graded placed Stormy Regatta (Midshipman), the juvenile is a half to stakes winner Bay Storm (Kantharos). He was purchased by the de Merics for $250,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale and worked a furlong at the under-tack show in :10 1/5.

“He is a beautiful horse and I thought his breeze was one of the best breezes,” Hanley said of the colt's appeal. “He has beautiful balance, he's a beautiful mover and he's full of class. Elliott [Walden] really liked the videos on the horse, so we took a shot on him.”

Hanley signed the ticket on the colt on behalf of the partnership of WinStar's Maverick Racing, Siena Farm and Commonwealth.

“It's been strong right through. I think nothing has changed with that,” Hanley said of the 2-year-old market this spring. “But he's by a proven sire with a nice page, with A.P. Indy and Storm Cat down there, and out of a nice young mare. We were very happy to get him.”

West Strikes Early for Always Dreaming Colt

Bloodstock agent Jacob West struck early in the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale Monday morning, going to $550,000 to acquire a colt from the first crop of GI Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming (hip 11) on behalf of Robert and Lawana Low. The juvenile was consigned by Top Line Sales on behalf of Marc Tacher's Elusive Thoroughbreds, which purchased him for $40,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale. He worked a quarter-mile during last week's under-tack show in :21 2/5.

“I think at the end of the day, he was one of the most talented horses that we've seen in quite some time,” West said of Always Dreaming. “For him to have done what all he did in a short amount of time speaks to the merit of the racehorse he was. And this horse reminded me of him physically. And I thought his breeze was outstanding. He is a big horse that breezed really quick on a small track. He handled it very well. Historically speaking, if you look at the front and back covers of this catalogue, the horses that breeze well here and gallop out are the ones that live up to that hype. I am just hoping he is the next one to make the catalogue.”

Hip 11 is out of stakes winner Saritta (Indygo Shiner) and from the family of graded winners Called to Serve and Behrens.

West made his winning bid just minutes into the first session of the Midlantic sale, but he was expecting action at the auction would heat up quickly.

“I actually told Mr. Low we were going to have to strike early and strike hard because I think, as this sale picks up later today and tomorrow, we are going to see some fireworks. There are some very nice horses here and there is plenty of money walking around. The market has been strong all the way through. I know some people have gotten shut out on top horses. This was a top horse. We were happy to get him.”

Monday's bang-up result continued a strong spring of sales for Tacher.

“It was exactly what you saw today,” Tacher said when asked about the colt's appeal as a yearling. “Physically, he was very impressive and a correct colt. He is a big scopey colt who looks like a two-turn colt who looks like he can go on and do good things.”

Of the colt's yearling price tag, Tacher added, “I was surprised to get him for that. I thought he was going to go much higher. I was happy to get him for $40,000 because I'm always thinking about the 2-year-old sales.”

Asked how his pinhooking has gone this spring, Tacher said, “Fantastic. This has been a great year. Probably my best year.”

 

 

 

Ransom the Moon Colt Tops Big Day for Brewer

Robert Brewer enjoyed a string of pinhooking successes Monday in Timonium, led by a colt by Ransom the Moon (hip 94) who sold for $375,000 to B-4 Farms, LLC. The Texan had purchased the dark bay colt for $55,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October sale.

“It was a good lick,” Brewer said of the result. “But with all the action that was on him, I thought he might bring more. I thought he could bring $300,000 to $500,000.”

Brewer also sold a colt by Good Samaritan (hip 135), purchased for $27,000 at Fasig October last fall, for $150,000 to Chad Schumer, as well as a filly by Cross Traffic (hip 270) for $150,000 to August Dawn Farm. Paul Neatherlin signed for the filly at $18,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

Brewer purchased a colt by Bolt d'Oro (hip 272) for $35,000 at the Fasig October sale and sold him Tuesday for $250,000 to Harmash Racing.

“I was excited when I was seeing how the Bolt d'Oros were selling,” Brewer admitted. “I knew I had a good one, so I knew I would do well with him.”

When Brewer is shopping for yearlings, he said the individual is paramount.

“An athlete,” he said succinctly when asked what he looks for in pinhooking prospects. “[The pedigree] kind of matters on the price, but I don't open my book until I find a horse.”

Asked to assess his Monday in Timonium, Brewer said, “It was good. I RNA'd a couple that shocked me a little bit, but I am getting them sold.”

 

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Top Line Juveniles Coming Out Running at OBS

Torie and Jimbo Gladwell's Top Line Sales consignment was responsible for both of the co-fastest furlong workers–both consigned on behalf of owner Marc Tacher–and it shared the co-fastest quarter-mile breeze during Tuesday's third session of the under-tack show for next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training in Central Florida.

A filly from the first crop of champion Accelerate (hip 461) shared Tuesday's fastest furlong time of :9 4/5. The bay is out of Full Moon Frolic (Vindication), who is a daughter of graded placed Frolicing (Royal Academy) and from the family of graded placed Mokat and Frolic's Dream. Isidro Centeno signed for the ticket at $35,000 at last year's OBS October sale.

A daughter of first-crop sire Army Mule (hip 441) also shared the :9 4/5 bullet time. She is out of the unraced First Fed Biz (Fed Biz), a half-sister to graded placed Bourbon Cowboy (Cowboy Cal). Elusive Thoroughbreds acquired the filly for $60,000 at last year's OBS October sale.

“Both of them are speedy fillies who do everything right,” Torie Gladwell said of the bullet duo. “They are both smart, easy-training fillies. They are not the real hot-blooded type. You ask them to do it and they show up and do what you ask them to do. They are very similar actually.”

Top Line sent out a colt from the first crop of GI Met Mile winner Mor Spirit (hip 410) to work the day's co-fastest quarter-mile of :20 3/5. The juvenile is out of the unraced English Chocolate (Midnight Lute), a daughter of stakes winner Unbridled Danz (Unbridled's Song). Alex Silva signed the ticket on the youngster at $50,000 at the Fasig-Tipton October sale.

“He's a really big, strong colt and he doesn't look like he should go :9 4/5,” Gladwell said. “He's not a little Quarter Horse type, he's a big, two-turn type colt with plenty of speed and plenty of fitness. And that's why we decided to go a quarter with him. Omar Ramirez owns him and he trained him, so he gets all the credit for getting him ready.”

Of the bullet time, Gladwell added, “He prepped sharp. We were thinking :21 flat or :20 4/5 at the best, so the :20 3/5 was a little bit of a surprise.”

Equaling the :20 3/5 quarter-mile time was hip 384, a son of GI Belmont S. winner Tapwrit. Consigned by Blue River Bloodstock, the gray colt is out of Dulce Arabe (Chi) (Speightstown). Bred by International Equities Holding–which also bred Monday's bullet quarter-mile worker–he was purchased by Katuska Arenas for $16,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

All of Tuesday's bullet workers are by first-crop sires.

“We typically gravitate to first-crop stallions, just because there is that unknown,” Gladwell said. “For us and for the buyers. And they seem to sell really well as 2-year-olds.”

Tuesday's bullet workers continued a week of strong results for Top Line Sales, which was represented by three :9 4/5 breezes during Monday's second session of the under-tack show: hip 206, a colt by Uncle Mo; hip 258, a son of Nyquist; and hip 301, a colt by City of Light.

“All three of those horses are serious colts,” Gladwell said. “We thought that all three could go in :9 4/5, so if they hadn't gone that fast, we probably would have been a little disappointed. They all prepped good, they are training good and they are all sound, good-trying horses.”

Through three of seven sessions of the under-tack show, Gladwell said conditions had remained largely consistent.

“That's a question for all the people up there clocking all the gallop outs,” she said when asked to compare conditions from day to day. “I heard a couple of people say that today the gallop outs were a little bit slower than yesterday, so I think the track was maybe a little faster yesterday than today, but not by much. I think the gallop outs were a little telling today, but the eighths seemed to be pretty consistent.”

The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning each day at 8 a.m. The Spring sale will be held next Tuesday through Friday with bidding commencing daily at 10:30 a.m.

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Top Line Juveniles Shine at OBS

Jimbo and Torie Gladwell's Top Line Sales claimed the fastest furlong and quarter-mile breezes of Friday's third session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's under-tack show ahead of the June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, with a filly by Frosted working the second :9 4/5 furlong of the week and a colt by Arrogate setting the new quarter-mile mark of :20 4/5.

When hip 447, a daughter of Frosted out of graded stakes winner Jody Slew (Slew City Slew), turned in her :9 4/5 breeze Friday, it was actually the filly's second bullet work of the spring. She also worked in :9 4/5 ahead of the OBS March Sale, but ultimately had to be withdrawn from the auction.

“She went :9 4/5 in March,” Torie Gladwell said. “So we knew she was really fast, but we weren't sure she could do it again. Because you never really ask a horse to go that fast twice. We don't ever ask our horses to go that fast on the farm. So the only time they do it is for the breeze show.”

Gladwell continued, “In March, she came up with a little vet issue, so we had to scratch her and we ended up doing a little quick surgery and took care of it. We gave her some time off and brought her back here and she did do it twice. So we are really happy with her.”

The filly was purchased by Jimmy and Martha Gladwell for $65,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase.

“They trained her and they get all the credit for the work on that filly,” Gladwell said of her in-laws. “They've done everything to get her ready.”

Gladwell added of the filly, “She's grown since March. She's a little bigger and stretchier now. She looks really good.”

Hip 393, a colt by the late champion Arrogate, became the first juvenile of the week to shade :21 when he worked his quarter-mile in :20 4/5 Friday in Ocala.

“I can't take credit for that colt either,” Gladwell said. “He was at Miami with the de Merics and he's owned by Marc Tacher. We only had him for maybe three weeks on the farm prior to coming over here. So we really just test drove him a little bit on the farm. We knew he was fast, everybody told us he was fast, he worked good in Miami. We came over and were just kind of easy with him going into it and he showed up.”

The dark bay colt is out of stakes winner Hero's Amor (Street Hero), a full-sister to multiple graded placed Threefiveindia. He was purchased by Tacher for $200,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale and RNA'd for $240,000 following a :10 2/5 work at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale.

“He is average-sized and put together really well,” Gladwell said of the colt. “He's a gorgeous, gorgeous horse.”

Both of Friday's bullet breezers are making their second sales appearances of the spring. It's a recipe that has already worked this year, with a colt by Into Mischief RNA'ing at the Gulfstream sale for $750,000 before bringing $875,000 at the OBS Spring sale.

“If they can show up and do it twice, I think it actually shows these buyers that they are good sound horses who like their jobs,” Gladwell said.

The Top Line Sales consignment was also represented by a Practical Joke filly who earned the quarter-mile bullet and a Maclean's Music filly who shared the furlong bullet Thursday.

“Extremely well,” Gladwell said when asked how the consignment's horses were performing on the track. “They seem to be coming out of it, as far as X-rays go, in pretty good shape. They are coming back and they're not just jaded coming back to the barn. They try hard, they are blowing, but they are not ready to just fall over. So that's nice.”

The under-tack show continues through Sunday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Wednesday through Friday with bidding starting at 10:30 a.m. each day.

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Tacher, a True Jack of All Trades

There is not much Marc Tacher hasn't tried his hand at in the horse racing industry. The Puerto Rico native breeds, owns and buys horses; owns part of a racetrack; and pinhooks. He hopes to enjoy more success with the latter Wednesday as he sends three of his potential pinhooks through the ring at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale.

Growing up in Puerto Rice, Tacher was bit by the racing bug at a young age and made his first investment in the game early in his adult years.

“I got into horse racing early. As a kid, I used to go to the track with my father,” said Tacher, who owns insurance companies around the U.S., but mainly in Miami. “When I was in my twenties I bought a piece of a horse and that is how I got started over 32 years ago.”

Tacher now has 85 horses in training in both Puerto Rico and the United States; operates a breeding program predominantly in his home country; and owns part of his local racetrack, Hipódromo Camarero.

“I kept on buying horses and, through the years, I was pretty successful at that,” said Tacher. “I raced mostly in Puerto Rico. The opportunity came to buy the racetrack in 2004, but it took like three years to get it done.”

Of all the things he does, Tacher enjoys racing the most.

“I have the biggest stable in Puerto Rico,” he said. “I have been leading owner there for the past five years. In the U.S., I am in second-place in victories in the nation and was third last year.”

Tacher continued, “I won the Puerto Rican Triple Crown, which was a nice experience to have. Not many people get to experience that, so that was a good feeling.”

Tacher has also done well with pinhooking. His biggest success in that venture, however, did not come at auction.

“My biggest score didn't go through the ring, but I sold a Distorted Humor colt for $1.5-million that I bought for $60,000,” Tacher said. “I mostly buy to pinhook, but through the months leading up to the juvenile sales, I can change my position or if the horse doesn't bring what I think he is worth, I keep him to race. I don't buy to race, to be honest, I buy to pinhook. Most of what I race are RNAs and I also buy at the 2-year-old sales.”

Three of Tacher's yearling purchases are set to sell Wednesday with de Meric Sales, who he has been using for the past three years. The first to go through the ring will be Hip 81, a filly from the first crop of Practical Joke. The $130,000 KEESEP purchase is out of a half-sister to MGSW Takeover Target (Harlan's Holiday) and SW Ladies' Privilege (Harlan's Holiday).

“She is a nice filly and very forward,” said Tristan de Meric. “These Practical Jokes are really training well and she is one we have liked all year. She is a balanced and good-looking filly.”

Tacher secured Hip 92, a son of last year's leading freshman sire Nyquist, for $155,000 at Keeneland September. The chestnut colt hails from the family of MGISW Diversify (Bellamy Road).

“He is a really nice colt with a lot of leg,” de Meric said. “He has been training very well and is horse we think could do really well at the sale.”

Rounding out the Tacher trio is a colt from the first crop of the late champion Arrogate (Hip 122). The $200,000 FTKOCT acquisition is out of MSW Hero's Amor (Street Hero), who is a full-sister to SW & MGSP Threefiveindia.

“He is a bit immature, but he is very quick and sharp,” Tacher said. “He is not as big as the Nyquist colt, but he is fast and looks like he should do well. He is a very refined colt.”

The Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale will be held Wednesday at Gulfstream Park starting at 2 p.m. and the breeze show is Monday at 9 a.m.

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