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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.
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Ten yearlings from Flightline's highly anticipated first crop are catalogued for the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale on Aug. 4-5, as Flightline leads a class of first-year stallions who have already made a market splash.
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Broodmare of the Year Puca, the dam of a pair of classic winners, will be cataloged for the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, set for the night of Nov. 3 in Lexington.
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Multiple graded stakes winner Red Route One will be retired to stud after selling for $550,000 to Narvick International during the Fasig-Tipton July horses of racing age sale.
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Romeo, record-setting winner of the Bashford Manor Stakes on closing day at Churchill Downs a little more than a week ago, closed the Fasig-Tipton July selected horses of racing age sale in style. The colt brought a sale-record $1.7 million as this sale finished with dramatically improved figures across the board.
