A dark bay/brown colt sired by El Corredor which brought $200,000 was the top-priced New York-bred – and ninth highest seller overall – of 36 that sold at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training at Timonium on Monday. Three state-breds in all went for more than twice the sale average of $47,984.
The colt, singled out in The Thoroughbred Times Today’s “The Short List,” was described by consignor Robbie Harris of Harris Training Center as “a big, strapping, two-turn-looking colt—very well balanced. He has a great walk and a great presence about him.” The colt has now changed hands three times and steadily gone up in value. Bred by Joe Browne Nicholson and foaled at Chris Bernhard’s Hidden Lake Farm in Otisville, he previously sold as a “short” yearling to Michelle Reading at Keeneland January for $18,000, and later in the year (to Harris) for $55,000 at Keeneland September. Sagamore Farm signed the ticket for the colt on Monday.
This is the first New York-bred produced by Rolling Creek, who was sired by Storm Creek, a son of Storm Cat. Three of her four foals to race are winners and the colt gets an A++ TrueNicks rating (based on the El Corredor/Storm Cat cross). His second dam Buck Roll (Rollicking) is stakes-placed, and third dam (by Buckpasser) produced a multiple stakes-winner, two more stakes horses and two fillies that produced stakes winners. He is inbred 4S X 5S X 4D to Mr. Prospector and 5S X 5D to Bold Ruler and Secretariat.
A chestnut colt by Eddington (named Big Business), bred by Henthorn Racing and foaled at Pucker Ridge Farm, was the second top New York-bred, going to Dr. Mikel C. Harrington (agent) for $115,000. The colt is out of multiple stakes winner Spanish Guitar (Birdonthewire), who has two foals of racing age. His second dam Fast Fingers (Nepal) is a stakes winner and producer of eight winners out of eight foals to race, including another stakes winner. Also rated A++ by TrueNicks (on the Unbridled/Proud Clarion cross), he is an outcross through five generations.
Linda Rice, acting as agent for Whitehall Stable, went to $100,000 for a chestnut filly by New York-based sire Freud (named Flirtatious Spring). She is a full sister to multiple stakes-winner Flirt For Fame, who has earned nearly $350,000. All seven offspring to race out of the filly’s first dam Flirt With Fame (Trench Digger) are winners, including another stakes-winner (Famous Star) and two more stakes horses. Bred by Dorothy A. Bailin and foaled at Whisper Hill Farm, the filly sold as a weanling at the New York Breeders Sales Company October sale for $10,000. Freud stands for Sequel Stallions at Keane Stud.
A filly by Malibu Moon, the first foal produced by Irish stakes-winner Vinthea (Barathea), sold for $90,000 to T. Sheets, agent for Turtle Bird Stable. Bred by Jeffrey Tucker and foaled at Stone Bridge Farm, she was an $13,000 yearling purchase at Keeneland September. Consignor Scott A. Bergsrud of SAB Sales called the chestnut “an athletic filly.” She worked one furlong in :10.60 at the under-tack show on May 13th.
The 36 New York-breds that sold on Monday went for an average of $37,708, a median of $20,500 and grossed $1,375,500.
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