Grade 1 winners Hot Cha Cha and Love Theway Youare both attracted seven-figure prices during the single session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale Monday night, selling for $1 million and $1.45 million, respectively.
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Reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace continued to make her mark on the Thoroughbred industry Monday when she became the highest-priced horse to sell at a public auction in 2012, going to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm for $10 million.
As befitting her place in the sport, it was the highest price ever for a broodmare prospect sold at public auction, eclipsing the $9 million price for Ashado in 2005.
Reynolds Bell Jr., agent, went to $3,200,000 to acquire Grade 1 winner Grace Hall at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected fall mixed sale Monday night.
The 3-year-old Empire Maker filly was consigned as a racing or broodmare prospect by Lane’s End, agent. She brought the second-highest price through the midway point of the single-session sale, trailing only 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, who sold for $10 million
Day 1 of the 11-day Keeneland November breeding stock sale may have fewer horses compared to other sessions in the sale, but the quality of the offerings will be strong.
Young Grade 1-winning mares such as Plum Pretty and Zazu will be prominently featured on Day 1, as well as several prominent producers. Weanling siblings to Grade 1 winners like Ice Box, Furthest Land, and Gabby’s Golden Gal also are scheduled to go through the ring Tuesday.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Contested became the first horse of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale to sell for seven figures, and she did so in dramatic fashion, going to the Yoshida family’s Shadai Farm in Japan for $2.3 million.
The 3-year-old Ghostzapper filly emerged as one of the top sophomores of 2012, winning the Grade 1 Test Stakes and Acorn Stakes as well as the Grade 3 Eight Belles Stakes. She has won 5 of 7 career starts for earnings of $633,754.
Grade 1 winner Eden's Moon was sold for$1,525,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale on Monday evening, being purchased by Mandore International Agency. The French-based agency of Nicolas de Watrigant continued a strong evening for foreign buyers at the sale, after Japanese interests purchased two seven-figure mares.
Eden's Moon, a 3-year-old Malibu Moon filly, was offered as a racing or broodmare prospect by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency. She is the winner of this year's Grade 1 Las Virgenes Stakes and Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap.
Stormy Atlantic, currently ranked 12th on the general sire list, will stand the 2013 breeding season for $30,000 stands and nurses, Hill 'n' Dale Farms announced on Monday.
Stormy Atlantic was leading freshman sire in 2006 and has 13 stakes winners to date this year, including Grade 1 winners Get Stormy and Next Question. An 8-year-old son of Storm Cat, Stormy Atlantic also ranks second on the North American turf sire list for 2012.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Two days after Reneesgotzip finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, Lane’s End Farm announced that her sire, City Zip, will get a fee bump next year from $20,000 to $25,000.
City Zip is the only stallion on the Versailles, Ky., farm’s roster to stand for more in 2013 than this year. In addition to Grade 2 stakes winner Reneesgotzip, City Zip is represented by Grade 1 winner Dayatthespa and Grade 2 winner City to City among his 10 stakes winners this year, and he’s currently ranked sixth by progeny earnings on the North American general sire list.
The mixed sale season in Kentucky starts on Monday with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, a fast-paced, one-session auction that features some of the world's top breeding and racing prospects.
This year's catalog features defending Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, Breeders' Cup winner Zagora, and the broodmares who produced the Kentucky Derby and Preakness exactas, to name a few. Also cataloged are some well-bred weanlings, including the first looks in the auction ring at the progeny of some prominent first-crop sires.