The catalogue for the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, to be held Nov. 4 at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, is now online. Featuring 300 catalogued head, the auction opens with an offering of 159 catalogued weanlings, including foals from the first crop of superstar Flightline (Tapit), as well as the first foals of sprint champion Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music), juvenile champion Corniche (Quality Road), and sophomore champion Epicenter (Not This Time).
“Fasig-Tipton has assembled some outstanding November catalogues through the years, but this may be our deepest yet,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “We have 70 graded stakes winners or producers catalogued, 24 of which are Grade I.
“We have international champions, a Breeders' Cup winner, the dam of the Kentucky Derby winner, multiple mares in foal to the world's leading stallions, and an exceptional group of weanlings–all offered in a single afternoon and evening session,” continued Browning. “This sale provides the highest concentration of quality of any breeding stock sale in the world, with a unique format and atmosphere that buyers from around the globe thoroughly enjoy.”
Breeders' Cup winners with their first foals in the catalogue include: Aloha West (Hard Spun), Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), and Life is Good (Into Mischief), while the first weanlings of Grade I winners Cyberknife (Gun Runner), Drain the Clock (Maclean's Music), Early Voting (Gun Runner), Happy Saver (Super Saver), Idol (Curlin), Jack Christopher (Munnings), and Olympiad (Speightstown) are also included in the catalogue.
GI Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun (Into Mischief) has his first foals in the November catalogue, as do graded winner Greatest Honour (Tapit) and stakes-winning speedster and Nashville (Speightstown).
Gainesway, as agent for Resolute Bloodstock, will offer a Japanese-bred colt (hip 141) from the first crop of Group 1 winner Salios (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}). The bay is out of an unraced Galileo (Ire) mare.
Flightline has three weanlings on offer at the November auction, led off with a a colt out of a daughter of Up (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), consigned by Lane's End as hip 26. Lane's End also consigns a Flightline half-sister to Grade I winner Speaking Out (Mr Speaker) as hip 156. Flightline's trio of weanlings also includes a half-sister to graded winner Chop Chop (City of Light) consigned by Bluewater Sales (hip 119).
Paramount Sales will offer a daughter of Uncle Mo who is a half-sister to GI Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior) (hip 30), while Vinery Sales will offer a daughter of Justify out of a full-sister to Grade I winner Ring Weekend (Tapit) (hip 34) and Darby Dan Farm will offer a son of Curlin out of Grade I winner Unbridled Mo (Uncle Mo) (hip 45).
Taylor Made Sales Agency will offer a colt by Gun Runner out of Grade I winner Civil Union (War Front) (hip 87), as well as a daughter of Life is Good who is a closely related to Grade I winner Newgate (Into Mischief), a close third in Saturday's GI California Crown Stakes.
Bluewater Sales consigns a half-sister by Uncle Mo to Grade I winner Finley'sluckycharm (Twirling Candy).
Following the weanling section of the auction, Fasig-Tipton has lined up a power-packed offering of broodmares and broodmare prospects.
War Like Goddess (English Channel), a two-time winner of the GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic and runner-up in that race Saturday, is catalogued as hip 210 with Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, which also consigns recently retired multiple graded stakes winner Adare Manor (Uncle Mo) as hip 214; GI Starlet Stakes winner Eda (Munnings), in foal to Justify, as hip 244; Canadian champion Moira (Ghostzapper) as hip 293; and GI Frizette Stakes winner Chocolate Gelato (Practical Joke), in foal to Curlin, as hip 296. Moira sold for $3 million at last year's Fasig-Tipton November sale before adding a win in the GII Beverly D Stakes, as well as runner-up efforts in the GI Diana Stakes and GI E. P. Taylor Stakes to her resume this year.
Magdalena Farm, as agent for Lance Gasaway, 4G Racing LLC and Daniel Hamby, will offer Ma'am (Colonel John), the dam of this year's GI Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (Goldencents), in foal to Into Mischief, as hip 285.
In a Jif (Saintly Look), dam of turf sprinting sensation Cogburn (Not This Time), in foal to Into Mischief, will be offered as hip 272 with Taylor Made Sales Agency and will be preceded into the ring by her weanling son of GI Travers Stakes winner Epicenter.
Strong Incentive (Warrior's Reward) (hip 196), the dam of both Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) and GI Test Stakes winner Ways and Means (Practical Joke)–open-lengths winner of Sunday's GII Gallant Bloom Stakes–will be offered in foal to Into Mischief through Mill Ridge Sales. GI Matriarch Stakes winner Surge Capacity, also in foal to Into Mischief, follows her dam into the ring with the Elite consignment as hip 197.
Among the other Grade I winners and producers in the November catalogue are
- Pin Up (Ire) (Lookin at Lucky) (hip 171), dam of Timberlake (Into Mischief) and in foal to Into Mischief, consigned by Gainesway.
- GI Alabama Stakes winner Power Squeeze (Union Rags) (hip 173), consigned by St George Sales, Agent I
- GI American Oaks winner Queen Goddess (Empire Maker) (hip 179), in foal to Into Mischief, and consigned by Bluewater Sales
- GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Pizza Bianca (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) (hip 195), in foal to Justify, consigned by Gainesway on behalf of Resolute Bloodstock.
- GI Darley Alcibiades Stakes winner Candied (Candy Ride {Arg}) (hip 232), consigned by Bluewater Sales.
- Daddysruby (Frac Daddy) (hip 239), winner of the GI La Brea Stakes and in foal to Into Mischief, consigned by Elite.
- On behalf of Wellspring Stables, Vinery Sales will offer 2022 GI Spinaway Stakes winner Leave No Trace (Outwork) as hip 282.
- GI New York Stakes winner Marketsegmentation (American Pharoah), in foal to Into Mischief, will be offered as hip 288 with Gainesway.
- GI Belmont Oaks Invitational winner McKulick (GB) (Frankel {GB}) (hip 289), consigned by Elite.
The catalog is now available online, including the sale's Enhanced Catalogue. The Enhanced Catalogue provides up-to-date catalogue pages, Daily Racing Form past performances, and race replays; an Alan Porter pedigree analysis and five-cross pedigrees for all racing/broodmare prospects and broodmares; stallion register pages for all sires of weanlings and covering sires; as well as other tools to aid prospective buyers. All Grade I-winning females off the track or carrying their first foals will also be profiled with individual feature videos.
Online and phone bidding will also be available. Fasig-Tipton will accept approved supplemental entries through the Breeders' Cup.
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