Love and Pride, a multiple Grade 1-winning A.P. Indy mare from the family of champion and leading sire Bernardini, raised the bar on Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, selling to Borges Torrealba Holdings for $4.9 million
Aaron and Marie Jones made a splash by purchasing a trio of seven-figure mares at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale Monday night, first landing Grade 1 winner Joyful Victory for $2 million before going to $1.2 million each to acquire Grade 2 winners Juanita and Mamma Kimbo.
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.
