Pair of $700,000 colts highlight Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale

A pair of New York-bred colts – including one from the first crop of New York-based sire Galilean – sold for $700,000 to spark Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale of 2-year-olds in training in Timonium, Maryland.

Bloodstock agent Mahmud Mouni purchased both colts during the sale condensed to a single session after issues with the Timonium racing surface postponed and eventually shifted last week’s presale under-tack shows to a gallop-only event Sunday.

The colts were Hip 187[2], a colt by Galilean offered by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables Inc. consignment; and Hip 136[3], a colt from the first crop of Yaupon sold by Grassroots Training and Sales LLC.

“I’m so happy,” said Mouni, who bought five juveniles including another colt by Into Mischief for $1 million. “The horses were bought for Tagermeen Racing, a group of Libyan owners together. About five owners. All our horses I purchased for them. They will all stay in the United States for racing.”

Bred by Andy and the late Susan Beadnell and foaled at their Bead Land & Cattle Co. in Pottersville, the Galilean colt is the second foal out of the winning Mineshaft mare It’s Timeless. The Beadnells also bred the mare’s first foal, the New York-bred 3-year-old Global Campaign filly Campaign Champagne. Susan Beadnell, who with her husband bred New York-bred Grade 1 winner Haveyougoneaway and several other stakes winners, passed away at the age of 79 in mid-April.

Galilean, a 9-year-old multiple stakes-winning son of Uncle Mo out of the El Prado mare Fresia, stands for $3,500 at Questroyal North in Stillwater. The colt out of It’s Timeless, who sold to Bronco Bloodstock for $95,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, was one of 16 yearlings by Galilean that sold for an average of $41,369 in 2024.

Gabrielle Farm and Saratoga Glen Farm bred the colt by Yaupon, who is out of the multiple stakes-winning Frost Giant mare Frosty Margarita. Foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm in Schuylerville, the colt is the second foal out of the $599,876-earner who earned champion New York-bred 2-year-old filly honors in 2015. The colt was a $250,000 purchase out of this year’s Fasig-Tipton February digital sale.

Gabrielle Farm and Saratoga Glen Farm also bred Frosty Margarita’s first foal, the Malibu Moon gelding Malibu Margarita, and her yearling daughter of leading New York sire Central Banker.

“In my opinion (and) in my experience, I think Fasig-Tipton is one of the best auction sales,” Mouni said. “I’m so lucky to get these horses here. It feels like they are selected horses. You can find whatever you want. I like the facilities. The people help me so much. That is a very special thing.”

The leading colts were two of 15 New York-breds that sold for $100,000 or more during the record-breaking sale. Others included Hip 194[5], a colt by Yaupon out of the Grade 2-winning Menifee mare Just Jenda; and Hip 541[6], a filly from the first crop of Modernist out of the winning Daaher mare Ascot Walk.

Justin Casse, agent for M V Magnier, went to $500,000 for Hip 194. Bred by and foaled at Milfer Farm Inc. in Unadilla, the colt originally sold for $130,000 at last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. Consigned at the Midlantic sale by Steven Venosa’s SGV Thoroughbreds LLC, agent, the colt is the seventh foal out of Just Jenda and a half-brother to stakes winners Jenda’s Agenda and Miss Alacrity.

Repole Stable went to $310,000 to purchase Hip 541, who finished the sale as the top-priced New York-bred filly. Bred by Kaylee M. Platt and foaled at Platt’s Windy Acres in Boonville, the filly is the third foal out of Ascot Walk and a half-sister to stakes winner and recent Kentucky Oaks runner-up Drexel Hill and graded stakes-placed $179,510-earner Regaled.

Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 68 of the 84 New York-breds through the ring Tuesday for a total of $6,176,500, an average price of $90,831 and median of $52,500.

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