The Fasig-Tipton July Chosen Yearling Sale opened with a bang July 9 when the primary horse by the ring, Hip 1, offered for $220,000 to John Stewart of Resolute Bloodstock. The darkish bay colt by Maxfield out of Ample Flurry (Midshipman ) was consigned by Legacy Bloodstock, agent.
Jorge V. Gonzalez bought the colt on the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Combined Sale for $13,000 out of the Lothenbach Dispersal of Breeding Inventory & Yearlings. Tuesday’s sale was the most important pinhooking success of Gonzalez’s 20-year horse racing profession.
“It was very onerous to course of as a result of I wished to remain calm. My coronary heart raced like, it began racing like a horse. I used to be saying to myself, calm down,” Gonzalez stated. “I assumed that he was going to be actually, actually in style. I had at all times religion that he was going to deliver good cash.”
A number of grade 1 winner Maxfield, a first-crop yearling sire, stands at Darley Stallions close to Lexington. His 2024 revealed stud price is $35,000.
“Properly, I at all times preferred highly effective horses, huge horses,” Gonzalez stated. “And Maxfield being a primary sire it is already enticing. That is what the market is in search of, so that is what I hoped, what I used to be specializing in. And considering on that, the horse, he was a pleasant, stunning particular person himself once I picked him.
“I assumed he was gonna want simply a while and correct care, and he’ll do the remaining.”
Jorge V. Gonzalez at Fasig-Tipton’s The July Sale
Gonzalez, initially from Mexico, resides in Ocala, Fla.
“I began as a groom. Then I personal some horses. I have been driving for a very long time additionally, and coaching,” Gonzalez stated. “That is what I wished to do for a residing. I’ve a terrific satisfaction to see a horse that’s completely satisfied, wholesome, sturdy, and might go a good distance.”
Sale’s Solely Filly by Not This Time Brings $320,000
Aidan and Hannah Jennings’ Killora Stud bred Hip 199, a bay filly by main fifth-crop sire Not This Time out of Mo Champagne (Uncle Mo ), hoping to see her promote properly and to a racing outfit. They received each needs when Flying Dutchmen, an entity related to Travis Boersma’s Boardshorts Stables, purchased her for $320,000. Consigned by Padraig Campion’s Blandford Stud, she was the sale’s highest-priced filly.
“She was enticing, moved very properly, and had a variety of presence about her. We thought she was a bit particular,” stated Campion. “We’re assured we’ll do properly for (Boardshorts Stables). They’re a great group that’s doing it proper and shopping for good horses. We offered a Good Magic to them at this sale final 12 months. If you find yourself a breeder, that’s what you need.”
Not This Time is a son of Large’s Causeway standing at Taylor Made Stallions close to Nicholasville, Ky. To this point, he has sired 34 black-type horses, together with grade 1 winner and 2022 champion 3-year-old colt Epicenter . Not This Time has been the chief of his sire class by progeny earnings since their second-crop 12 months in 2021. His revealed stud price is $150,000.
Hip 199’s second dam to the bay filly is stakes-placed Champagne Royale (French Deputy), the dam of grade 1 winners Majestic Harbor and Danza.
McPeek Buys McKinzie Colt for $275,000
Coach Ken McPeek, agent, went to $275,000 to land Hip 114, a son of freshman sire McKinzie from Gainesway’s consignment.
Bred in Kentucky by Prairie Vista Companions, the McKinzie colt is out of the stakes-placed Medaglia d’Oro mare Bridgette Bordeaux, who has produced 4 winners from six starters, together with stakes-placed Elusive d’Oro (Elusive High quality).
Bloodstock agent Davant Latham and companions pinhooked Hip 114 out of the 2023 Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale for $85,000.
“I am very completely satisfied for all our companions. That was a terrific sale, an incredible sale,” Latham stated. “We purchased him from James Keogh’s consignment, and he was bred by Jay and Cami Brunker, who’re mates.
“He got here to this sale proper. Gainesway did their regular incredible job making ready the horse for the sale, and it is a praise anytime Kenny buys a horse from you, as a result of he has received such a great eye.”
Davant Latham
Latham stated he’s a fan of McKinzie, a lot that he was keen to pinhook from his second crop, which brings into play a timeframe when market opinion of freshman stallions will be in flux.
“I used to be actually impressed with him as a racehorse—he was a grade 1 winner at 2, 3, and 4—and the physicals he was throwing in his first crop,” Latham stated. “It is at all times troublesome to purchase weanlings of first-year stallions, and despite the fact that this colt was from his second crop, I used to be so impressed along with his first crop I had no worries about shopping for him.”
Brian Graves of Gainesway, which stands McKinzie ($30,000 stud price in 2024), stated he’s inspired by the market’s continued optimistic reception and what he’s listening to about his runners on the monitor.
“(Hip 141) was a typical McKinzie, a very leggy horse that was streamlined with a great neck and shoulder … a good-moving athletic horse,” Graves stated. “McKinzie did not break his maiden ’til October, and I feel his yearlings might be related varieties. They’re leggy and lengthy and doubtless can run a distance of floor. It will in all probability take some time to get these lengthy legs working, however I feel folks know they’ll be round ultimately.
“Tons of high quality 2-year-olds by him have been traded, and lot of trainers I’ve talked to suppose they’ve good ones of their barns.”
Excessive-High quality $350,000 Vekoma Colt purchased for Racing
Companions Siena Farm, China Horse Membership, and Maverick Racing teamed up once more, this time on Hip 234, a chestnut colt by freshman sire Vekoma that was bought for $350,000 out of Lane’s Finish’s consignment. As of July 9, Vekoma leads the freshman sire standings by progeny earnings ($459,153) and by variety of winners (10). As a racehorse, Vekoma was a millionaire whose wins included the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) and Carter Handicap (G1).
The Vekoma colt consigned as Hip 234 on the F-T July Sale
The colt, bred in Florida by H & E Ranch, is out of the Scat Daddy mare Scamper, who has already produced stakes winner Alogon , by California Chrome .
“He’s an actual fairly colt with a variety of high quality and nice motion,” stated Elliott Walden, who’s with Maverick, the shopping for arm of WinStar Farm. “He was our favourite horse within the sale. It’s early days on Vekoma, however he has gotten off to a pleasant begin and hopefully, they proceed on. We actually just like the bodily.”
Hip 234 will get his early coaching at WinStar Farm’s coaching middle.
“We love attending to see them day by day and had nice success with horses like Timberlake, Life Is Good, and Justify. None of them left Kentucky,” Walden stated.
