Half sister to Filibustin brings $150,000 in F-T Midlantic opener

[1]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[2]) 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[3].

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2017/05/23/f-t-midlantic-2yo-opener-wrap/

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