French bloodstock agency Mandore International Agency made its presence felt early during Tuesday’s first session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, purchasing the first seven-figure horse of the sale, multiple Grade 1 winner Harmonious for $2.8 million.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Switch was purchased by Irish-based Moyglare Stud Farm for $4.3 million on Monday near the end of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.
Untouched Talent, dam of Grade 1 winner and dual classic runner-up Bodemeister, sold to Michael Vincent Magnier of the Coolmore partnership for $5 million, the second-highest price of Monday’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected fall mixed sale.
A major catalog update helped raise the value of multiple Grade 1 winner Zagora, who brought $2.5 million at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale on Monday night just three days after winning the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf.
Lifted by a record $10 million purchase of 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and a broad array of buyers from around the world, Fasig-Tipton’s fall mixed sale’s gross receipts nearly doubled, from $32,745,000 for 79 horses soldin 2011 to $60,220,000 for 87 horses this year. The $692,184 average was up by 67 percent, but the median dipped, falling five percent, from $200,000 to $190,000.
Pilfer, dam of multiple Grade 1 winner To Honor and Serve, sold in foal to Bernardini for $1.95 million to Borges Torrealba Holdings at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale Monday night.
Musical Romance, champion female sprinter of 2011, sold to Katsumi Yoshida’s Northern Farm in Japan for $1.6 million on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale.
Grade 1 winner and Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes runner-up Bodemeister will stand his first season at WinStar Farm in 2013 for a fee of $30,000, the Versailles, Ky., farm announced Monday. Its veteran and perennially prominent sire Distorted Humor will stand for a fee of $100,000, the same as this year.
Grade 1 winners Hot Cha Cha and Love Theway Youare both attracted seven-figure prices during the single session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale Monday night, selling for $1 million and $1.45 million, respectively.
Reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace continued to make her mark on the Thoroughbred industry Monday when she became the highest-priced horse to sell at a public auction in 2012, going to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm for $10 million. As befitting her place in the sport, it was the highest price ever for a broodmare prospect sold at public auction, eclipsing the $9 million price for Ashado in 2005.
