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Don’t Leave Me Tops Pin Oak Dispersal At Fasig-Tipton

Nearly 70 years of careful breeding and racing success – a lifelong passion of Pin Oak Stud's Ms. Josephine Abercrombie – were on display Sunday evening at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky. A selection of Pin Oak's remaining broodmares, weanlings, and race fillies were offered without reserve by Denali Stud as agent.

The sale topper came in the form of Don't Leave Me (Hip 18), a 9-year-old graded stakes winning daughter of Lemon Drop Kid. Woodford Thoroughbreds purchased the mare, who was offered in foal to Horse of the Year Authentic, for $650,000 (video).

Don't Leave Me is out of Grade 1 winner See How She Runs, and has produced two foals to date, including I'm So Sorry (Uncle Mo), who is placed in one start this year at two, and a weanling filly by Medaglia d'Oro (Hip 19). The latter preceded her dam into the ring, and was purchased by Rigney Racing for $370,000, the top price paid for a weanling during the sale (video).

“We started showing Saturday morning,” said Denali Stud's Craig Bandoroff. “They were here at quarter to eight, and her 23 horses showed 1,056 times… [w]e were hoping that the community would appreciate the quality of the offerings and the quality of Ms. Abercrombie and Clifford's lifetime work, and they did. It was gratifying.”

Point System (Hip 5), a seven-year-old stakes winner by Pin Oak's own Broken Vow, sold for $420,000 to Shepherd Equine Advisors, agent from Larry Hirsch (video).

The second highest price of the evening, Point System was offered in foal to Eclipse champion Improbable. To date, Point System is represented by a yearling colt by Candy Ride (ARG).

Late in the session, Eaton Sales took home multiple Grade 1 placed stakes winner Gold Medal Dancer (Hip 23) for $400,000 (video). The 11-year-old daughter of Medaglia d'Oro is represented by Dance Recital, a winner this year at 4, as well as an unstarted 2-year-old in Dance Routine, and a weanling colt by Candy Ride (ARG).

“This has been her baby for 60-plus years,” added longtime Pin Oak Stud farm manager Clifford Barry of Abercrombie. “It's kind of nice to coming in tonight and showcase… [T]here are mares here today she's got three, four generations of. Very, very proud of her.”

Of three racing and/or broodmare prospects on offer, Fascination (Hip 20) took the top spot, selling for $185,000 to Harbut Bloodstock. A daughter of two-time and current leading sire Into Mischief, Fascination placed third in her debut this year at three. Her dam, Whimiscality (Hip 10), in foal to Collected, sold earlier in the session to BBA Ireland for $200,000.

All told, 23 horses sold for $3,999,000, good for an average of $173,870 and a median of $130,000.

Full results are available online.

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Catalog For The Pin Oak Stud Sale Now Available Online

The catalog for The Pin Oak Stud Sale, to be conducted by Fasig-Tipton, is now available online.

The sale will be held at Fasig-Tipton's Newtown Paddocks facility in Lexington, Ky. on Sunday, Sept. 12. The auction will begin at 6 p.m.

This past Thursday, Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud announced that it will be offering its remaining broodmares, weanlings, and some racing fillies at auction.

The catalog consists of 24 horses, including graded stakes winners Overheard (Macho Uno), in foal to McKinzie; Gold Medal Dancer (Medaglia d'Oro), in foal to Munnings; and Don't Leave Me (Lemon Drop Kid), in foal to Authentic. Weanlings on offer include progeny of Justify, Candy Ride, Ghostzapper, Flatter, Medaglia d'Oro, Union Rags, and Street Sense.

The catalog will also be available via the equineline sales catalogue app. Print catalogs will be available beginning the week of Aug. 16.

Online bidding and phone bidding will be available.

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Pin Oak Stud To Disperse Equine Assets, Host Special Auction At Fasig-Tipton On September 12

Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud, one of the country's most successful Thoroughbred breeding and racing operations over the past six decades, announced Aug. 5 that it will be offering its remaining broodmares, weanlings, and some racing fillies at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky on Sept. 12.

Denali Stud will handle the sale as agent for Pin Oak. Separate from this main group are 14 yearlings which will be offered in the upcoming Keeneland September Sale and one yearling is entered to sell at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Sale. Some 14 retired mares and horses will remain on the farm.

“This has been part of Ms. Abercrombie's plan all along, as we have been selling mares and downsizing the past few years,” said farm manager Clifford Barry. “Actually, in keeping to her plan, we have sold more yearlings than we kept in training the past couple of years.”

Among the 24 horses being offered in September are multiple graded stakes winners Overheard, winner of the Grade 2 Pin Oak Valley View and G3 Dance Smartly Stakes, in foal to Grade 1 winner at two, three, and four Mckinzie; Gold Medal Dancer, winner of the G2 Azeri Stakes, and placed in both the G1 La Troienne Stakes and G1 Apple Blossom Handicap, in foal to top sire Munnings; Dont Leave Me, winner of the G3 Bourbonette Oaks and G3 Ontario Colleen Stakes, in foal to champion and winner of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic Authentic; and stakes winner Point System, in foal to champion Improbable.

The 2021 foals out of these mares and others are also part of the sale on Sept. 12. These weanlings are by such outstanding sires as Medaglia d'Oro. Street Sense, Ghostzapper, Candy Ride, Flatter, and Justify.

Craig Bandoroff, whose Denali Stud will be handling the sale, remarked, “We have been fortunate to represent Pin Oak Stud for over 15 years. I've always considered it a compliment to have the Denali Stud name associated with Pin Oak and Josephine Abercrombie. Their pursuit of excellence, their integrity and their highest level of horsemanship has made representing them an honor, not a job.

“Although I'm saddened to see this day come, I'm proud that we have been asked to represent a woman and a farm that I admire and revere,” Bandoroff continued. We will do our best to represent not just an accomplished horsewoman and her legacy but an incredible person who has positively impacted many lives through her various endeavors.”

Recognized as the 1995 National Thoroughbred Breeder of the Year, Pin Oak Stud has produced or campaigned over 100 stakes winners. Prominent homebreds to carry the distinct blue and gray striped silks include Peaks and Valleys, Broken Vow, Confessional, See How She Runs, Hasten to Add, Laugh and Be Merry, and Missed the Storm. Additional top performers are graded stakes-winning earners over $500,000 and include Alternation, Brownie Points, Bedanken, Synchrony, Alternate, Euphony, Cryptograph, Gold Medal Dancer and Overheard.

An active supporter of the racing industry as well as her community, Ms. Abercrombie has been honored with the William T. Young Humanitarian Award and the Hardboot Award, both presented by the KTA/KTOB. In 2018, Ms. Abercrombie received one of the industry's most prestigious awards when she was named the Thoroughbred Club of America Honor Guest.

“The names Josephine Abercrombie and Pin Oak Stud are synonymous with excellence and quality,” noted Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “Ms. Abercrombie is a pillar of the Thoroughbred industry and our local community. Her legacy will carry forward through the lives of the many people she impacted and these Thoroughbred families she cultivated and developed.”

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