Fasig-Tipton’s The November Sale, the corporate’s marquee breeding inventory sale, takes place Nov. 4 in Lexington, with a few of the highest-quality weanlings, broodmares, and broodmare or racing prospects in North America on provide.
“Very happy with the exercise on the grounds at present, and even yesterday,” Fasig-Tipton president and CEO Boyd Browning Jr. stated. “Numerous faces on the grounds, appears to be a excessive degree of enthusiasm; the climate is gorgeous, two lovely days of racing within the Breeders’ Cup, so it’s totally encouraging.”
The sale acquired a number of boosts Saturday, beginning with the announcement that Takingtimeoff , a half sister to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner and certain 2-year-old champion filly Immersive , had been added. Takingtimeoff is obtainable as Hip 318 from the Taylor Made Gross sales Company consignment. The 6-year-old Curlin mare is in foal to Yaupon .
“That is the wonderful thing about this weekend, there’s updates which might be consistently occurring,” stated Browning. “It sort of makes it particular, the entire mixture of the racing and gross sales going collectively and creates curiosity. It creates pleasure, it creates alternatives.
As soon as the racing began Saturday, the updates stored coming. First, Soul of an Angel pulled an upset within the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Dash (G1). The 5-year-old Atreides mare was coming off a win within the Princess Rooney Invitational Stakes (G3) Sept. 21 at Gulfstream Park for coach Saffie Joseph Jr. She is cataloged as Hip 191 with Taylor Made Gross sales Company, agent, and certain to convey greater than the final time she went by means of the ring in 2020 through the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings Sale, the place she RNA’d at $3,000.
Now within the operating for champion feminine sprinter, Soul of an Angel has earned $1,192,675, completed with a 6-7-5 document in 41 begins.
One other large replace occurred within the Breeders’ Cup Totally & Mare Turf (G1T), the place 2022 Canadian Horse of the 12 months Moira added one of many solely issues her résumé was missing, a grade 1 victory. The 5-year-old Ghostzapper mare who set a observe document when she beat males within the 2022 Queen’s Plate Stakes at Woodbine is cataloged as Hip 293.
Additionally receiving an replace Saturday was grade 2 winner and Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash (G1T) third-place finisher Ag Bullet , cataloged as Hip 216.
This yr’s sale will provide the primary weanlings by many new sires together with 2022 Horse of the 12 months Flightline . He has two weanlings that may promote Monday. Hip 26, a colt out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Star of India will promote with Lane’s Finish Farm, agent, and a filly out of the mare Ghostslayer (Ghostzapper), who’s the dam of grade 3 winner Biddy Duke and hails from the household of champions Forte and Important High quality , consigned by Woods Edge Farm, is Hip 311.
“The anticipation surrounding the Flightline infants is about as excessive as I can keep in mind,” Browning stated. “The stallion clearly holds a particular place in our hearts, as a result of he is a (Fasig-Tipton) Saratoga graduate. I feel persons are going to be more than happy once they come on the gross sales grounds and see this colt and filly. We’re happy to have the chance to get him began off on the fitting foot.”
There are 18 stallions represented within the catalog whose first crop are weanlings of this yr, together with Epicenter , Jack Christopher , Jackie’s Warrior , Life Is Good , and Mandaloun .
“It is uncommon to have that many horses go to stud of that caliber on the identical time,” commented Browning on the variety of first-crop weanling sires within the catalog. “All of them have traits to achieve success stallions and everybody all the time loves the brand new children on the block, so it ought to bode very nicely for these stallions.”
Final yr’s sale produced a gross of $101,281,000 from 154 horses who modified fingers. The typical was $657,669, with a median of $295,000. An RNA charge of 25% represented the 51 horses who failed to satisfy their reserve.
Twin Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Dash winner Goodnight Olive and 2022 champion 3-year-old filly Nest topped final yr’s sale commanding $6 million every, going to Gavin O’Connor for John Stewart and Repole Secure, respectively.
Twenty-five horses bought for $1 million or extra, with John Stewart buying Queen Caroline in foal to Flightline, and Pizza Bianca in foal to Into Mischief, every for $3,000,000. Stewart was the sale’s high purchaser with seven purchases totaling $13,350,000. Taylor Made Gross sales Company led the consignors with 35 head bought for a complete of $22,965,000.
The sale begins Monday at 2 pm. ET on the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.
