Fasig-Tipton kicks off mixed-sale season in Saratoga

While Fasig-Tipton continues the yearling sale season – it is set to conclude that marketplace at the end of October at its Kentucky headquarters – the company also is doing double duty opening the North American mixed-sale season.

Fasig-Tipton will host the Saratoga fall mixed sale Monday at its Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

For the single-session sale, Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 235 entries, many representing New York’s stallion roster and breeding programs.

“This is an important sale for those that actively participate in the New York-bred program,” Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. said in a press release. “Saratoga fall annually offers the highest concentration of New York-bred weanlings of any mixed sale in North America. This year we have 175 weanlings catalogued – all of which are New York-bred.

“There are also good opportunities in the broodmare portion of the sale, with a number of mares in foal to promising young sires.”

The demand for young New York-bred stock to compete for lucrative state incentives was seen at Fasig-Tipton’s statebred yearling sale in August in Saratoga. That auction surpassed $20 million in gross sales for the first time in its history and finished with its second-highest average and median figures ever.

New York’s resident stallions with their first weanlings this season are a strong group, boasting racetrack accomplishment and/or notable pedigrees. Represented in the catalog are Grade 1 winner Fog of War, a son of internationally successful sire War Front, and Kentucky Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee, from an active branch of the Smart Strike sireline. Also included are graded stakes winner Killybegs Captain; graded stakes winner Mr. Monomoy, who is a half-brother to two-time champion Monomoy Girl; stakes winner King For a Day, a son of sire of sires Uncle Mo; and Honest Mischief, a son of leading sire and emerging sire of sires Into Mischief and Grade 1 winner Honest Lady.

A number of Kentucky’s first-crop weanling sires also are represented, including 2019 Kentucky Derby official winner Country House; 2019 Preakness Stakes winner and dual-surface Grade 1 winner War of Will; Grade 1 winners Complexity, Gift Box, Global Campaign, Higher Power, Honor A. P., Spun to Run, Tom’s d’Etat, Vekoma, and Volatile; and graded stakes winner Instagrand, by Into Mischief.