The 103rd version of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Choose Yearling Sale kicks off Aug. 5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and consignors and gross sales officers are optimistic concerning the power and site visitors on the gross sales grounds going into the boutique public sale.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 240 yearlings for the train that runs Aug. 5-6 within the Humphrey S. Finney Gross sales Pavilion.
“We have got an amazing catalog assembled, and we could not be any extra excited and we sit up for two huge days,” stated Boyd Browning Jr. president and CEO of Fasig-Tipton. “We’re thrilled with the extent of exercise. It has been jam packed since Friday morning. The fitting individuals are right here and consignors are very happy with the variety of appears they’re getting.”
The Saratoga Sale is North America’s top-ranked yearling sale by proportion of grade 1 winners and graded stakes winners, based on BloodHorse Marketwatch. It is answerable for back-to-back Preakness Stakes (G1) winners—Nationwide Treasure in 2023 and Seize the Gray in 2024.
Seize the Gray wins the Preakness at Pimlico
Nationwide Treasure offered for $500,000 in 2021 to the partnership of SF Racing, Starlight Racing, and Madaket Stables. The High quality Street colt was consigned by Bridie Harrison. After successful the 2023 Preakness, he has notched wins within the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) and the Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap (G1) this season.
Seize the Gray offered for $300,000 on the 2022 Fasig-Tipton train to Thoroughbred micro-share possession group MyRacehorse. He was consigned by Mill Ridge Gross sales. The favored possession workforce is poised once more so as to add to their steady and have been lively on the gross sales grounds, giving excursions to potential consumers as they undergo the steps of what it takes to accumulate a profitable racehorse.
Different notable graduates embody Sierra Leone , winner of the Blue Grass Stakes (G1) and runner-up within the Kentucky Derby (G1); Prince of Monaco , winner of the 2023 Del Mar Futurity (G1); and Stephen Foster Stakes (G1) winner Kingsbarns .
Final yr’s Saratoga sale grossed $75,055,000, with a mean of $487,370. Eleven horses offered for a $1 million or extra, with an esteemed Beholder –Curlin colt topping the sale at $4 million. He was offered to Donato Lanni, agent for Zedan Racing, and was consigned by Taylor Made Gross sales Company.
Taylor Made president and CEO Mark Taylor stated the site visitors and really feel on the barns the final three days has been superb.
“It is a type of issues you could’t actually describe, however you simply really feel it. There’s a whole lot of power,” Taylor stated. “It looks like individuals are optimistic and able to leap in and purchase some very nice yearlings. In some years you do not really feel that. You are feeling like, ‘Is all people simply sort of sitting on their fingers and possibly they’ll wait till September and see what is going on on?'”
Taylor was hesitant to foretell seven-figure outcomes, however he stated the consistency of the catalog bodes properly.
“I feel Fasig-Tipton does a pleasant job of choosing these horses, so it is a fairly uniform group of high quality physicals, and that helps loads. They do not all need to need to blue-blooded pedigrees, however the conformations listed below are superb throughout the board.”
Hips 1-120 promote Aug. 5, with hips 121-240 concluding the sale Aug. 6. The primary providing within the public sale’s second session Aug. 6 might be a share in main younger sire Complexity . He leads all first-crop sires by winners, black-type winners, black-type horses, graded stakes winners, and progeny earnings. The share might be consigned by Airdrie Stud, which stands Complexity.
Complexity at Airdrie Stud
Complexity’s high performers embody Mo Plex , winner of the Sanford Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course, and Black Forza , winner of the Richmond Stakes (G2) Aug. 2 at Goodwood Racecourse.
The Saratoga Sale is usually a confirmed sire sale, however there are many first-year sires of curiosity, together with Charlatan , Maxfield , Yaupon , Important High quality , Recognized Agenda , and Tacitus .
“All of our yearlings are by confirmed sires, besides one—Hip 45 (by Maxfield),” stated Carrie Brogden of Machmer Corridor Gross sales. “He has been very properly acquired, it is good to have one thing new.”
Hip 45 is a Machmer homebred colt by first-crop yearling sire Maxfield, and the primary foal of the Uncle Mo mare Fiscal Literacy, a half to grade 2 winner Dixie Metropolis and stakes winner Win The Warfare .
Machmer Corridor, based mostly close to Paris, Ky., is not any stranger to bringing high horses to the prestigious sale. A few their notable graduates embody two-time Eclipse champion and Corridor of Famer Tepin and grade 1 winner Exaulted .
“General we’ve got a very stable group,” Brogden stated. “I really feel as optimistic as I probably may.”
