NEWS: SALES

New York-bred juvenile offerings at F-T Midlantic top out at $375,000

Wednesday, May 24th, 2017

FT Midlantic 2yos 17 logoBy Sarah Mace

The top New York-bred filly and top New York-bred colt to change hands at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale of 2-year-olds in training sold in the second and concluding session Tuesday.

An Into Mischief filly, who is a half to a multiple graded stakes winner, fetched the top price of $375,000. A colt by Shanghai Bobby, whose second dam is a multiple graded stakes winner, was hammered down for $210,000.

The $375,000 New York filly topper, who was also the top filly of the session and co-ninth top-seller overall (Hip 465), is a grey/roan individual by Into Mischief out of Jilted, who posted a :22 flat quarter-mile work under tack for consignor Pike Racing, Agent. Offered once before, the April filly was a $165,000 buyback at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale in Saratoga. Mike Ryan was the winning bidder in Timonium.

The filly’s dam Jilted is a Kentucky-bred winner by Runaway Groom, whose second foal, Run Away and Hide (City Zip), went three-for-three as a juvenile, winning the Grade 2 Saratoga Special and Grade 3 Kentucky Stakes. Jilted, who has produced five winners from six foals to start, was purchased by Jerry Bilinkski, who bred the sale filly in partnership with Roddy Valente, for $77,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale.

“I knew this filly was going to cost because the two [Into Mischiefs Monday] were very nice and they both made $425,000,” Ryan told the TDN. “This filly is a New York-bred and that’s a nice little perk to have. She has a lot of quality and she’s a sister to a good horse. Run Away and Hide was a really good horse. We were at the end of the rope, but I wasn’t shocked she would bring that kind of money. I bought her for a new client and we haven’t decided where she is going to go yet.”

The male New York-bred topper (Hip 287), was a bay from the first crop of Shanghai Bobby bred by Mina Equivest LLC and foaled on March 17, 2015. He went to Mark Stanley from the consignment of Scanlon Training & Sales Agent II for $210,000 after breezing a :10 1/5 furlong. Scanlon picked her up last summer for $60,000 at the Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

The filly’s dam is Canaryinacage, who was purchased by Thomas Mina at the 2008 Keeneland November sale for $42,000. An unraced Kentucky-bred daughter of Mineshaft, Canaryinacage has produced four winners, topped by her stakes-winning first foal Sing Dixie Sing (Dixie Union). The filly’s second dam is Megans Bluff, a multiple graded stakes winner and earner of nearly $750,000.

In all, of the 98 New York-breds offered over the two-session auction, 76 sold (including seven private sales) for a 22.5% buyback percentage. The New York-bred average price was $46,507 and the median came in at $25,000. Seven juveniles brought six figures.

The sale overall, which saw a record-breaking topper in a $1.5 million Curlin colt, was strong, grossing 9.1% more than last year. The sale average of $76,476 represented an 11.4% increase over $68,654 in 2016, while the median was $35,000 up 9.4% from $32,000 in 2016. The RNA rate was 19.9%, compared to 25.9% last year.

Full results are available online.

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