By Sarah Mace
A pair of fillies, one by Harlan’s Holiday and the other from the first crop of New York sire Mission Impazible, topped the New York-bred offerings at the 2016 edition of the Fasig-Tipton Florida sale, which kicked off the juvenile auction season at Gulfstream Park on Wednesday.
The topper arrived early in the session, when John McCormack went to $300,000 to buy Hip 16, a dark bay or brown February filly by Harlan’s Holiday offered by Eddie Woods Agent XXI who posted a 10.2 quarter in the under tack show.
Bred by a partnership of John P Hicks, William D Hart, Dr. Jerry Bilinski and John Murdza, the sale filly is the first foal out of the unplaced, but well-connected Hard Hat (Hard Spun), a half sister to Grade 1-winner, millionaire and sire Albert the Great, and to stakes winners Watch the Bird and Sheer Bliss. The filly sold last year to MJ Stable for $130,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky summer yearling sale.
Nearly matching the New York-bred topper when hammered down for $290,000 later in the session was Hip 77, a grey/roan filly from the first crop of Mission Impazible named Miss Haily. The filly, who shared a 10 flat bullet work with nine others in the under tack show, was purchased by Justin Casse, agent, from the consignment of Crane Thoroughbreds, agent.
Bred by Tracy Egan, the Mission Impazible filly is out of Rodeo’sbeenspotted, a winning daughter of Rodeo and half sister to stakes winner Message Red who has produced two winners so far. The dam is from the family of graded stakes winner Le Mi Geaux and graded stakes performer Lady Samuri. A pinhooking coup, the filly was purchased by Harry Weisleder at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale for $40,000 last summer.
In all, four of the five New York-breds offered in the Florida sale sold for an average of $222,500. The single horse that did not sell (Hip 104 Malibu Moon/Tulipmania) RNA’d for a whopping $485,000
I hope our NY breeders will pay special attention to the sale of Hip 77.
The daughter of NY sire Mission Impazible proves you can check all the boxes with a NY-sired NY-bred.
Commercial appeal
Physical appearance
Fast
Eligible for double the awards as a non-NY sired (30% of 1st place purse money vs. 15%)
Eligible for the NY Sire Series races
And, you can do it without the added expense of out of state board and shipping.
Send your quality mare to a quality NY sire and reap the rewards and awards.