Munny Spunt sells for $340,000 to top opening session of Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sale

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Graded stakes-winning broodmare Munny Spunt, in foal to Triple Crown winner Justify, sold for $340,000 to lead the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale on Monday.

Fasig-Tipton reported that 182 horses changed hands for a total gross of $5,524,300 during the first of two sessions at this sale, which concludes the breeding stock sale season. Last year's opening session of a record edition of Fasig-Tipton February finished with 198 horses sold for $6,598,800.

The average was $30,353, down 9 percent from $33,327 in the 2022 opener. The median was $10,500, a change of 26 percent from $14,500. The buyback rate was 21 percent after checking in at 16 percent last year.

“It was a solid session today,” Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. said. “I thought there was fair trade. There was lots of activity, especially on the short yearlings. The mares in foal and broodmare prospects that you would kind of turn down the page as you went through the catalog sold well.

“We’ve seen a continuation of the marketplace we saw throughout 2022,” Browning added. “It’s healthy. It’s not exuberant. It’s rational.”

Munny Spunt, a 9-year-old daughter of Munnings, sold for $340,000 to the stable moniker Family Friends to lead the session. The mare was consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, as agent.

Munny Spunt's first foal is Bread Winner, a Candy Ride gelding who was third in a maiden-claiming race at Oaklawn in the final start of his 2-year-old campaign. After delivering a Mendelssohn filly who sold for $425,000 as a yearling last season and an Authentic colt, she was bred back to Triple Crown winner Justify for her upcoming foal, due this month. Justify finished a close third on the 2022 freshman sire earnings list, with six stakes winners on the season.

Munny Spunt won 5 of 17 career starts, highlighted by the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes in 2017. She is out of the Hard Spun mare Spin the Blues, a half-sister to graded stakes winner Blues Street and Grade 3-placed Beale Street. It is the family of graded stakes winner Stormy Blues.

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