Hip 207, a colt by Constitution bred by Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs, sold for $675,000 to highlight Book 1 of the Keeneland September yearling sale. Photo courtesy of Taylor Made Sales Agency.
Kristen and Matt Esler sent two yearlings from their Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs to sell in Book 1 of this week’s Keeneland September yearling sale and came away with $1,025,000.
Case Clay Thoroughbred Management landed the first of the two yearlings, going to $675,000 for Hip 207, a colt by Constitution out of the unraced Into Mischief mare Walking Miracle. Bred by and foaled at Thirty Year Farm, the colt is the sixth foal out of Walking Miracle. He was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.
Thirty Year Farm bought the mare carrying the Constitution colt in utero for $525,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. She delivered the colt about two months later, Jan. 26, at the farm not far from Saratoga Race Course.
The Constitution colt is the sixth foal out of Walking Miracle, who is a half-sister to the Grade 3 winner and $279,052-earner Sound Money. Walking Miracle’s first two foals – Swill and Stitched – are stakes winners.
Swill, a 7-year-old gelding by Munnings and a winner in 2025, sports a record of 7-4-3 in 28 starts with $406,924 in earnings. He won the 2023 Challedon Stakes at Pimlico Race Course and finished fourth in three other stakes, including the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club in 2020 at Churchill Downs.
Stitched, a 6-year-old by Mizzen Mast who made two starts in early 2025, has won six of 22 starts with $955,689 in earnings. He’s a three-time stakes winner, taking the Grade 2 Wise Dan in 2023 at Ellis Park and the Caesar’s Stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis and Mystic Lake Derby at Canterbury Park in 2022.
Walking Miracle is also the dam of a New York-bred weanling colt by Good Magic, foaled March 12 at Thirty Year Farm.
Hip 231, a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed, also starred for breeder Thirty Year Farm and sold for $350,000. Photo courtesy of Paramount Sales.
The second Thirty Year Farm yearling went through the ring about a half hour later, Hip 231, a filly by Life Is Good and half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed, that sold for $350,000 to Mike Repole’s Repole Stable. The filly is the eighth foal out of the unraced Bellamy Road mare Achalaya, who is the dam of five winners from five foals to race. She was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent.
The five winners include Charlotte’s Heart, a New York-bred daughter of Authentic bred by Thirty Year Farm who sold for $725,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings. Campaigned by Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, Charlotte’s Heart won her debut in 2024 at Saratoga Race Course before a second in the Glorious Song Stakes at Woodbine. She’s 1-2-0 in six starts with $114,732 in earnings.
Achalaya’s seventh foal, a daughter of Curlin, sold for $500,000 to be the top-priced New York-bred and top overall filly at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale.
Thirty Year Farm purchased Achalaya, in foal to Charlotte’s Heart, for $725,000 at the 2021 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. She’s the dam of three other winners, including graded stakes winner and $238,908-earner Chess’s Dream.
Casa Creed, who stood his first breeding season in 2025 at Mill Ridge Farm in Kentucky, retired with nine wins in 36 starts and earnings of $2,691,308. He won back-to-back editions of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga Race Course in 2022 and 2023, along with back-to-back renewals of the Grade 1 Jaipur Stakes at Belmont Park in 2021 and 2022.
Those were the lone New York-bred yearlings through the ring for the Book 1 sessions. Book 2, which features 19 New York-breds in the catalog, started at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
