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Maxfield Represented By First Foal

Darley America's two-time Grade I winner Maxfield (Street Sense) was represented by his first foal Jan. 7 at Kiki Courtelis's Town & Country Farms in Georgetown, Kentucky.

The bay filly is the first foal out of Dreamalildreamofu (Commissioner) , a two-time stakes and twice graded-stakes placed winner of better than $293,000. The now 6-year-old mare was purchased for $235,000 by Town & Country at the 2021 Keeneland November Sale and was bought back on a bid of $340,000 at the same event this past fall.

“We are very happy with our Maxfield foal,” said Town & Country CEO Shannon Potter. “She is a pretty filly with all the nice angles you'd expect. She already has class and presence.”

Maxfield won his first two starts as a juvenile, including the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and cloased his career with a victory in the GI Clark S. Winner of an additional four graded events and placings in the GI Woodward S. and GI Whitney S., Maxfield remains at $40,000 LFSN for the 2023 breeding season.

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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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Temple City Terror To Train On Following Long Island Score

Fresh off a breakthrough victory at the graded level and subsequent $600,000 purchase by Town & Country Farms at the recently concluded Keeneland November Sale, Temple City Terror (Temple City) gave those that backed her into 65 cents on the dollar scarcely a nervous moment as she ran out a hands-and-heels winner of Friday's GIII Long Island S. at Aqeuduct.

Content to take up her customary position at the back of the field, the 6-year-old switched off nicely for Jose Ortiz as a somewhat hard-to-handle Big Time Lady (Big Brown) took them along at an even clip. Last, but always within easy striking distance down the backstretch, Temple City Terror was given her cue with about three furlongs to go, aided by a wayward Big Time Lady, who bothered Capital Structure (GB) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) badly and cost that one any chance. Rocky Sky (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) inherited the lead and kicked into a clear lead in upper stretch, but possessed of one of the strongest finishing kicks when she is on song, Temple City Terror gathered up Rocky Sky and pulled away under minimal encouragement.

Reasonably lightly raced for a horse soon to be seven, Temple City Terror successfully defended her title in Churchill's Keertana S. May 28, but she caught an unsuitably soft Delaware turf course and could not get through the ground when seventh as the choice in the GIII R. G. Dick Memorial S. July 9. The dark bay completed the exacta behind future GI Longines Breeders' Cup Turf third War Like Goddess (English Channel) in Saratoga's GII Glens Falls S. Aug. 6 and was a pace-compromised fourth in the GII Flower Bowl S. Sept. 3 ahead of her facile success in the GIII Rood & Riddle Dowager S. in what became her final appearance for Pocket Aces Racing and Somewhere Stable Kentucky and trainer Brendan Walsh.

And it appears there is more to come.

“As long as she continues to tell us that she wants to keep doing this, that's what we are going to let her do,” Shannon Potter, CEO of Town and Country, told the TDN while on his way out of Aqueduct Friday. “She's very sound and Brendan's team has done an awesome job with her. She was great today and there's no reason not go go on.”

Added Walsh: “She ran great and we were delighted with her. You couldn't ask for much more than that. These guys, to be fair, they came to me and asked if they should keep going on and I said, 'Absolutely.' I think she's only just gotten good now.”

Town and Country has previously bought successfully at breeding stock sales, with an eye on keeping those purchases in training. Stopchargingmaria (Tale of the Cat_ won the 2014 GI CCA Oaks and GI Alabama S. for Repole Stable and was led out unsold of that year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale on a bid of $3.15 million. Town and Country took over ownership in 2015 and the filly rewarded them with a victory in that year's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff at Keeneland. Stopchargingmaria was subsequently sold on for $2.8 million at FTKNOV in 2016.

Temple City Terror will winter at Palm Meadows, Potter said.

Pedigree Notes:

Temple City Terror is the latest of 13 graded winners for her sire, the only active son of Dynaformer in Kentucky, and is one of four winners from as many to race from her dam, whose 5-year-old daughter R Calli Kim (Revolutionary) was trained by Walsh to a third-place effort in an 11-furlong allowance over the Belmont turf when last seen July 3. She is also the dam of the 4-year-old maiden-winning colt Silent Steve (Dominus).

Friday, Aqueduct
LONG ISLAND S.-GIII, $300,000, Aqueduct, 11-25, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 3/8mT, 2:15.56, fm.
1–TEMPLE CITY TERROR, 125, m, 6, by Temple City
                1st Dam: It Takes Two, by More Than Ready
                2nd Dam: Chastity Belle, by Gilded Time
                3rd Dam: Exquisite Mistress, by Nasty and Bold
($22,000 Ylg '17 KEESEP; $600,000 6yo '22 KEENOV). O-Town and Country Racing, LLC; B-Upson Downs Farm (KY); T-Brendan P. Walsh; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $165,000. Lifetime Record: 29-7-5-5, $861,218. Werk Nick Rating: A Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Rocky Sky (Ire), 125, f, 4, Rock of Gibraltar (Ire)–Road Tosky (Ire), by Elusive City. O-Peter M. Brant; B-Eadling Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. $60,000.
3–Kalifornia Queen (Ger), 121, m, 5, Lope de Vega (Ire)– Kaldera (Ger), by Sinndar (Ire). (€70,000 Ylg '18 BBAGO; €260,000 3yo '20 ARARC). O-Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables LLC, First Row Partners & Michael J. Caruso; B-Stall Torjager (GER); T-Chad C. Brown. $36,000.
Margins: 1HF, 6 3/4, 1. Odds: 0.65, 4.30, 6.70.
Also Ran: Capital Structure (GB), Tic Tic Tic Boom, Big Time Lady.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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