$600,000 Tapit filly tops Day 2 at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A $600,000 Tapit filly took over the leaderboard as the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale hit its midway point on a good pace to make a run at last year’s record figures.

Fasig-Tipton reported that 265 horses changed hands Tuesday, the second of four sessions at this yearling season finale, for gross receipts of $15,752,400. In the second session of the 2021 run, 280 horses sold for $13,960,200.

Tuesday's average price was $59,443, rising 19 percent from $49,858 in the comparable session of the 2021 sale. The median was steady at $25,000. The buyback rate was 20 percent after it was 17 percent last year.

Compared to the midway point of the 2021 sale, the cumulative average price is up 20 percent, at $53,880 compared to $45,085, while the median is up 25 percent, to $25,000 compared to $20,000. The 2021 sale finished with record figures of $45,627 and $22,000 for the average and median, respectively. The sale also posted a record gross.

DJ Stable stretched to $600,000 for the session-leading Tapit filly from the consignment of Blake-Albina Thoroughbred Services, as agent. The filly was bred in Kentucky by Newtown Anner Stud, and this was her second trip through an auction ring this fall. She was offered in Book 1 of the Keeneland September yearling sale, but failed to meet her reserve with a high bid of $425,000. On Tuesday, with an additional month of maturation under her belt, she found her ideal marketplace.

The gray filly is out of the multiple graded stakes-winning Forestry mare Carolyn's Cat. She is the dam of five winners from nine starters, led by Grade 3 winner Mufajaah, a full sister to this filly, and stakes-placed Aunt Kat.

Carolyn's Cat is out of Grade 3 winner People's Princess, who in turn is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Meadow Flight and to stakes winner North Lake Jane and stakes-placed runners Known Feminist, Race Driver, and You Blew.

Last year’s sale-topper at the Fasig-Tipton October sale was a $925,000 Street Sense colt who tied for the highest price in sale history. The colt was sold during the third session of the sale, which is an open sale arranged alphabetically by dam name, with roughly the same number of horses on offer each day.

“It’s really hard to tell the composition [of the catalog], which days are best,” Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. “There are 1,600 horses on the grounds. Lots of activity, lots of trainers, lots of pinhookers, lots of end users and . . . representatives from overseas, particularly from South America. It was nice to see our friends from Korea back in the marketplace as well.”

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