By Sarah Mace
A half sister to accomplished New York-bred sprinter Filibustin (Bustin Stones) brought $150,000 from Orlando Di Rienzo to top the New York-bred offerings at Monday’s opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old sale at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium.
Bred by Alan R. Cook, who campaigns Filibustin, the filly (Hip 157) issues from the first crop of Take Charge Indy. Her dam is West-Virginia-bred Sweet Aloha, a six-figure earner, both of whose foals to start are winners and stakes horses.
Filibustin won the Joseph A. Gimma and Key Cents stakes as a juvenile. Sweet Aloha’s first foal, Man O Manassas (Copelan Too), is a stakes performer. Further down the family tree there is a connection to champion broodmare Turn to Talent, dam of champion Capote, multiple grade 1 winner Exceller and others, and a more distant tie to Bob and John. Aloha has a yearling colt by Forty Tales and was bred back to the same stallion last year, with no reported foal to date.
The filly, who posted a sharp :10 1/5 furlong in the under tack show, was consigned by Scanlon Training & Sales, Agent VI. As a weanling, she sold to OWL Stable for $65,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale, then failed to meet her reserve when bid up to $48,000 at the last summer’s Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale.
In the sale’s opening session, 51 New York-breds were offered and 37 sold (including three private sales) for an average price of $43,595 and $30,000 median. Five individuals topped six figures. The buyback percentage was 27.5%.
For the session, the sale average was $71,219, up 4.3% from $68,253 in the first session last year. The median of $40,000 increased 17.6% increase from last year’s first session median of $34,000. The RNA rate for the general population of the sale was 25.0%, down from 31.4% during the first session last year.
The Midlantic juvenile sale resumes Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. Results are available online.
