Hip 217, the multiple winning Street Sense gelding Call Me Harry, sold for $85,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale. Fasig-Tipton Photo.
Call Me Harry, a six-figure earner and winner at Saratoga Race Course this past summer, sold for a reported $85,000 to top all New York-breds at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale.
Offered as Hip 217 and consigned by Marshall W. Silverman, agent, Call Me Harry was purchased by Michael Maker. Bred by Newtown Anner Stud and foaled at Jack’s Farm on the Hill in Millbrook, the 6-year-old gelding is by Street Sense out of the Bernardini mare Call Me Swift. He was the fifth most expensive horse sold at the sale.
Call Me Harry started his career for his breeder and trainer Kelsey Danner, winning two of nine starts and earning $112,293 at 2 and 3. Trained by John Kimmel and Michelle Hemmingway at 4 and 5, Call Me Harry was claimed by Wycoff and Sharp for $45,000 out of a sixth in a 5 1/2-furlong turf optional-allowance July 24 at Saratoga. He won his next start in a $115,000 open-company allowance going 1 mile on the grass.
Call Me Harry also won a $90,000 optional-allowance at 1 mile on the grass during the Belmont at the Big A meeting – while risked by not taken for the $45,000 tag – before back-to-back fourths in similar races leading up to the sale.
Brittany Russell, agent, purchased the second most expensive New York-bred at the sale, going to $40,000 for the placed 2-year-old Freud colt New York Panther. Also consigned by Silverman and sold as Hip 282, New York Panther is out of the winning Lemon Drop Kid mare Mo Justice.
Bred by Justice Sables LLC, foaled at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson and originally sold for $107,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, New York Panther finished fourth in his debut June 3 at Belmont Park before a second there July 8. He last raced Aug. 4 at Saratoga, finishing sixth in a 1 1/16-mile state-bred turf maiden for owners Michael Dubb, St. Elias Stable, Michael Caruso and trainer Todd Pletcher.
Hip 21, a weanling colt by Speightster foaled in New York, was purchased by Eddie Ortiz for $25,000. Bred by Danzel Brendemuehl and Colleen Smith and foaled April 13 at The New Hill Farm in Hoosick Falls, the colt is out of the Grade 3-winningPleasant Tap mare Solo Survivor and is a half-brother to stakes winner and $175,125-earner Hip Hop N Jazz.
Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 16 of the 24 New York-breds offered at its final sale of the year for $280,000, an average price of $17,500 and median of $10,500.
