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Swiss Skydiver Off To Japan Following $4.7M Sale

Peter Callahan's Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil–Expo Gold, by Johannesburg) didn't turn a single hair for the entirety of the five minutes and change that she stood in the ring at Fasig-Tipton November Tuesday evening, and when the dust had settled, the chestnut filly had sold for $4.7 million to the bid of Northern Farm's Shingo Hashimoto. It took just a bit more than the 1:53 required for Swiss Skydiver to win last year's COVID-delayed GI Preakness S. for the bidding to wander into the $3-million territory, with interested parties both inside the pavilion and out. It slowly made its way higher for the next three minutes before the winning salvo was fired. Swiss Skydiver splashed onto the scene in the 2020 GII Gulfstream Oaks and added the GIII Fantasy S. and GII Santa Anita Oaks before finishing second to Art Collector in the GII Toyota Blue Grass S., her first try against the boys. Easy winner of the GI Alabama S., she completed a Daredevil exacta in the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks before upsetting GI Kentucky Derby and GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year Authentic (Into Mischief) at Old Hilltop. In four starts this term, Swiss Skydiver added the GI Beholder Mile at Santa Anita.

 

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Shedaresthedevil Hammers for $5M to Whisper Hill at FTKNOV, Will Remain in Training

Multiple Grade I winner Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) sparked an intense bidding war Tuesday night at Fasig-Tipton November before eventually hammering for $5 million to Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm. Several of her owners during her racing career will remain part of her ownership, however, and the bay will return to racing in 2022. Selling via Hunter Valley Farm, agent as hip 232, the 4-year-old bay captured a pair of Grade III stakes early in her 3-year-old season before upsetting champion Gamine (Into Mischief) in last September's GI Longines Kentucky Oaks. She added four more graded stakes victories this season, including top-level successes in the La Troienne S. and Clement L. Hirsch S. to push her earnings over the $2-million mark. She was also the only horse prior to the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff to beat presumptive champion Letruska (Super Saver) this year in the GII Azeri S. Mar. 13. Shedaresthedevil was sold as a racing or broodmare prospect and has been trained by Brad Cox for Flurry Racing Stables, Qatar Racing Limited and Big Aut Farms to this point.

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West Takes Home Moonshine Memories For $3.4M

'TDN Rising Star' Moonshine Memories (Malibu Moon–Unenchantedevening, by Unbridled's Song), pregnant to Into Mischief, fetched $3.4 million from West Bloodstock at Fasig-Tipton November as the hits just kept on coming rapid fire Tuesday evening. Consigned by Denali Stud as hip 211, the 6-year-old mare is a half-sister to SW & GSP Indian Evening (Indian Charlie) and is out of a half-sister to Horse of the Year Favorite Trick (Phone Trick). Raced by Bridlewood Farm, Mrs. John Magnier, Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor and trained by Simon Callaghan, Moonshine Memories raced to three straight victories to begin her career, including the GI Del Mar Debutante and GI Chandelier S. As a broodmare, she is represented by a yearling filly by Justify and a weanling filly by Uncle Mo.

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Guarana’s Dam Magical World Sells For $5.2M at FTKNOV

Some 21 hips after her Grade I-winning daughter Guarana (Ghostzapper) was hammered down for a then sales-topping $4.4 million, Magical World (Distorted Humor–Pleasant Home, by Seeking the Gold) soared past that amount and then some, eventually achieving a final bid of $5.2 million during a white-hot renewal of the Fasig-Tipton 'Night of the Stars' Tuesday in Lexington. Whisper Hill Farm's Mandy Pope signed the winning ticket on the 11-year-old mare, who was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale, agent, to dissolve a partnership with Three Chimneys. Pope indicated that she would be partnering with Three Chimneys on the mare. Adding to her appeal, hip 203 was offered in foal to Into Mischief, and the bidding raced past the $2-million mark within the first minute of activity. The bidding hung just shy of the $5-million threshold before surging past and sold after another couple of $100,000 volleys. A daughter of 2005 GI Breeders' Cup Distaff upsetter Pleasant Home, Magical World also hails from the female family of Sky Beauty and Violence.

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