Fasig-Tipton November: Horses to watch
Horses to watch at the Fasig-Tipton November breeding stock sale.
Joe NevillsNov 04, 2013
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.
A 2-year-old filly by Killenaule led the way during the Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s Indiana fall mixed sale, held Oct. 19 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.
The 2012 edition of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale was a banner renewal, posting new records in overall gross, average and median prices. A year later, those high-water marks are a distant memory. After three days of selling at the 2013 renewal, a total of 818 horses changed hands for an all-time October sale-high gross of $27,908,000. That figure was a 21 percent increase from the $22,991,600 generated from 880 yearlings sold in 2012.
The early offerings in the final session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale produced a new sale-topper when a Smart Strike filly went to Borges Torrealba Holdings for $800,000, the second-highest price paid for a yearling at the October sale through 1980.
The second day of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale belonged to trainer Mark Casse who signed the tickets as agent on five of the top 10 horses, helping drive the highest single-day gross in the sale’s history.