It was an emotional second for Richard and Connie Snyder as they watched their filly, Hip 53, promote for $1 million to Resolute Bloodstock on the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 9.
The Snyders’ Cove Springs Farm bought the dam, French Passport, out of the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale for $200,000. An unraced daughter of Elusive High quality, she has produced three winners from 5 foals to race. Probably the most profitable of these foals is Randomized , the two-time grade 1 winner who defeated champion Idiomatic within the June 8 Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.
Sadly, French Passport died in a paddock accident. The darkish bay or brown filly offered Monday is her final foal.
“She was a beautiful mare for us,” mentioned Richard Snyder. “It is bittersweet.”
Richard and Connie Snyder of Cove Springs Farm on the 2018 Keeneland November Sale
Consigned by 4 Star Gross sales, the filly who introduced seven figures from Resolute is a daughter of Darley’s freshman stallion Maxfield  , a six-time graded stakes winner who received the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at age 2 and Clark Stakes (G1) at 4.
“We like Maxfield, we predict he is approaching effectively,” mentioned Resolute’s John Stewart. “He nicks actually good in our system, we predict he will be a superb stallion.”
Stewart mentioned the filly’s pedigree ranked as an “A+” of their system and that he ended up paying the value he was anticipating.
“I feel there’s a whole lot of pleasure across the sale this yr,” Stewart mentioned. “I feel Keeneland’s accomplished a superb job bringing in a superb high quality of horses.”
John Stewart
It was only one yr in the past that Stewart made a splash on the Keeneland sale as a comparatively unknown title, buying 13 yearlings for greater than $8.4 million.
This yr will probably be a bit totally different as Stewart plans to remain extra selective.
“We have already got 38 yearlings this yr, we did not have any after I got here in final yr, so we’re making an attempt to maintain our numbers down,” Stewart mentioned. “We will be selecting up the occasional filly, I acquired two of them already at present, however actually trying to find some colts.”
The bodily and pedigree of the Maxfield filly made her unattainable to withstand.Â
“She simply has good stability all all through her, she’s acquired good withers and offers them explosiveness out of the gate,” Stewart mentioned. “I feel she’s going to be a extremely quick horse, I feel she strains up properly the place 80% of our entire program is turf.”
Earlier within the sale, Stewart picked up Hip 16, a colt by Uncle Mo  consigned by St George Gross sales, and Hip 43, a Dubawi filly consigned by 4 Star, each for $500,000.
