In Lingerie, the first mare in the world offered at public auction in foal to unbeaten champion Frankel, sold for $2.4 million to Shadai Farm of Japan Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale.
Grade 1 winner Her Smile became the first horse in a star-studded catalog to sell for seven figures at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale Monday night, selling for $1,075,000 to SF Bloodstock.
LIVE VIDEO: 2013 Fasig-Tipton November Sale
Fasig-Tipton’s one-session November sale, to begin on Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern at the company’s Newtown Paddocks headquarters in Lexington, Ky., arrives on the heels of North American horse racing’s showcase event and heralds what is always a hectic, eventful two weeks in the auction sector.
Horses to watch at the Fasig-Tipton November breeding stock sale.
A diverse group of young sires whose first crops arrived this year will be represented at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November and Keeneland November sales, a roster that includes three Eclipse Award winners and a proven 1 1/4-mile to 1 1/2-mile classic dirt horse who each have more than 18 weanlings cataloged.
In Lingerie will be the first mare in the world offered at public auction carrying a foal from the first crop of unbeaten champion Frankel when she again goes through the ring at the select Fasig-Tipton sale the night of Nov. 4. Six total mares from the stallion’s outstanding first book will be offered in Kentucky in the coming weeks.
Tempting Dash, a champion Quarter Horse seized by federal authorities in a money-laundering case tied to the Los Zetas cartel in Mexico, sold for a record $1.7 million on Friday during the first day of a fall mixed auction at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City.
The Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale wrapped on Thursday with results closely in line with last year’s edition.
A pair of broodmares in foal to Grade 1-winning stallions topped Monday’s inaugural open yearling and mixed auction put on by the Equine Sales Company in Opelousas, La. Cat Eyes, believed to be in foal to Songandaprayer, topped the sale at $17,000. She was sold with a My Pal Charlie filly by her side. Capote’s Halo, checked in foal to Paddy O’Prado, brought $15,000 as the second-leading lot Monday.
