A diverse buying bench at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga became even more dynamic with the addition of some new faces to the ranks of those buying high-ticket horses, including Randy and Jenny Boyd of Tennessee, who struck at $2.6 million for a Gun Runner filly out of Grade 1 winner Paradise Woods.
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Unbeaten Horse of the Year Flightline had a strong takeoff with his first yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.
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Bucchero stood his first five seasons in Florida before moving to New York beginning with the 2024 breeding season. Thus, his first state-conceived foals will not be yearlings until next year, but there's a taste of things to come at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale that takes place Sunday and Monday.
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Led by a $4.1 million Into Mischief colt, the upper marketplace confirmed that it is still alive and thriving as the 104th Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale smashed its records across the board.
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After Grade 2 winner Mopotism, dam of Preakness Stakes winner Journalism, died at age 11 in July, breeder Don Alberto Corp. of Liliana Solari and her son Carlos Heller had competing business and emotional values to balance.
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There was certainly anticipation as a Gun Runner colt out of America stepped into the ring Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. But could anyone have expected him to sell for $2.7 million, topping a flurry of seven-figure offerings during the opening session of this boutique sale?
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Six-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief's continued success is one of the stories of the summer in Saratoga – not just on the track, as his dual classic winner Sovereignty eyes the meet's major events for 3-year-olds, but in the commercial arena. In addition to having several coveted lots at Fasig-Tipton's sales in August, Into Mischief will be well-represented by his proven sons. He also is the sire of three first-crop stallions.
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On the heels of last year's successful selected Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, the company's New York-bred yearling sale very ably took things across the finish line. Last year's New York-bred sale grossed more than $19.2 million, including private sales, finishing only behind the consecutive records set in 2022 and 2023
Fasig-Tipton, which kicks the season off with a flurry of activity, is one of three major auction houses in the United States, along with Keeneland and the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Between them, they will host eight brick-and-mortar yearling sales in 2025, in a schedule unchanged from last year. Here is a look at the calendar.
Between Fasig-Tipton's two sales in upstate New York, the Saratoga selected yearling sale on Aug. 4-5 and the New York-bred yearling sale on Aug. 10-11, the company has cataloged 526 young horses to be offered in a prestigious marketplace. Mining the offerings to find jewels that fit their respective programs will be the challenge of some of the top owners, trainers, and bloodstock agents in the world.
