Sunday's GI Juddmonte Spinster S. winner Valiance (Tapit–Last Full Measure, by Empire Maker) will be offered at the Nov. 8 Fasig-Tipton November Sale after an anticipated start in the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff Nov. 7. She will go through the ring as a racing or broodmare prospect consigned by Meg Levy's Bluewater Sales.
A Todd Pletcher trainee for the partnership of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Martin S. Schwartz, and CHC Inc., Valiance is riding a three-race win streak into the Breeders' Cup. She came into the Spinster off a score in Monmouth's Eatontown S. Aug. 29, which had followed an allowance/optional claimer win on the turf at Colonial Downs July 28. She also won the Open Mind S. on the Monmouth turf last year as a 3-year-old. Valiance goes into the Breeders' Cup with an 8-6-0-0 record and earnings of $469,575.
“It is always exciting to offer fillies in top current form,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “A daughter of Tapit with a fantastic pedigree will be highly desirable to the sport's leading buyers and owners.”
Valiance is out of the GI Madison S. winner Last Full Measure, who hammered for $1.5 million while in foal to War Front at the 2014 Keeneland November sale. Valiance's granddam, Lazy Slusan (Slewvescent), was a dual Grade I winner in 2001.
The Spinster winner previously sold for $650,000 as a yearling at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale to Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Marty Schwartz.
“She's been a joy to be associated with, taking us to the top of the mountain,” said Eclipse Thoroughbred's Aron Wellman. “Valiance is regally bred, a gorgeous physical, and she's a top-shelf performer on dirt and turf. We are hoping for another positive result in the Breeders' Cup Distaff and to then showcase her at the historic Newtown Paddocks.”
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