$195,000 Catalina Cruiser weanling sets record to top Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale

A filly from the first crop of Catalina Cruiser sold for $195,000, a sale record for a weanling, as the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale returned to its place on the calendar Monday.

The single-session Saratoga fall sale, which was canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, finished with 163 horses sold for gross receipts of $3,657,800. The gross not only increased 8 percent from the most recent renewal of the sale in 2019 – when 134 horses sold for $3,384,000 – it marked a sale record.

Monday's average price was $22,440, a drop of 11 percent from the most recent renewal of the sale, when the 2019 average checked in at $25,259. The median was $10,000, shifting 33 percent compared to $15,000 in 2019.

The buyback rate was 30 percent. It was 38 percent in 2019.

The majority of the catalog was made up of New York-bred weanlings, and the sale-topper emerged from that group, purchased by Reeves Thoroughbred Racing from the consignment of Sequel New York, as agent. Her young sire Catalina Cruiser, a five-time graded stakes winner at distances from 6 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/16 miles, stands at Lane's End Farm in Kentucky.

The filly is out of the stakes-winning Red Giant mare Catcha Rising Star, whose first foal is an unstarted 2-year-old. The mare is a half-sister to stakes-placed Her Royal Highness, and graded stakes winner Fortnightly and Ten Below appear on the catalog page.

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