Two colts, each selling for $120,000, led the New York-bred contingent in Monday’s first session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling sale, including a half-brother to Empire-bred champion Naughty New Yorker.
The Naughty New Yorker sibling was the first to go through the ring. A bay January colt by Broken Vow bred by Dr. William B. Wilmot and Dr. Joan M. Taylor and foaled at the Equine Clinic at OakenCroft in Ravena, Hip 193 went to Phase II Thoroughbreds from the consignment of Four Star Sales (agent for Glencrest Farm). Glencrest’s John Greathouse purchased the Breeders’ Cup-nominated colt as a weanling at last year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale for $135,000.
The colt’s dam Naughty Natisha (Known Fact) has produced seven winners, led by millionaire Naughty New Yorker ($1,089,884), winner of 11 stakes races and voted 2007 New York-bred Horse of the Year and Champion Older Male. A filly by Unbridled, Pupil, is a stakes winner and Grade 2 performer ($204,280).
The other New York-bred yearling to command $120,000 in the session, also Breeders’ Cup nominated, is a son of Mineshaft out of Oonagh (Hip 225), who sold from the consignment of Winter Quarter Farm (agent). The winning bidder was Cobra Farm.
Bred by John Meriwether’s Waterville Lake Stables Limited, LLC and foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains, the colt is out of Waterville Lake Stable homebred Oonagh, a winning daughter of Wild Again who has produced three winners. Oonagh is also a full sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and sire Vicar, and a half sister to Sheepscot (Easy Goer), a stakes-winning producer of graded winners Navesink River and Astronomer Royal.
Seventeen of the 21 New York-bred yearlings offered in Monday’s first session changed hands (including one private sale) and sold for an average price of $31,953. The median was $25,000. Both figures outstripped the session average ($24,676) and median ($13,000).
As a whole the first session of Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky fall yearling sale posted across-the-board gains from a year ago, with a 13.3% increase in average and 8.3% increase in median. The RNAs dropped from 25.1% to 20.6%. New York-bred RNAs were on par (19.0%).
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling auction runs through Wednesday.
