Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Select Sale 4th best in history of sale
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- August 13, 2021
- By SARA CAVANAGH
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.--Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Selected Yearling Sales on Aug., 9, 10, ended with a blow-out sale on the closing night, making it the fourth best sale in Saratoga that Fasig-Tipton has ever had.
Pa-breds, particularly five consigned by Blackstone Farm of Pine Grove, Pa., did very well, and two other yearlings with close ties to black type Pa-breds also sold well.
Fasig-Tiptpn's $2.6 million sales topperPresident and CO Boyd Browning Jr. was euphoric following the Tuesday evening sale.
“We felt the magic of Saratoga tonight,” said Browning. “Whatever adjectives you want to use to describe, fantastic, vibrant, energetic, dramatic, we all felt it tonight. You’ve heard me say it before and I’ll say it again, it all begins with the quality of horses on the sales grounds. We were lucky to have an exceptional group of horses on the grounds this week. You could feel the buzz growing on the sales grounds. Just the way the horses fell, we had a few more breakout horses tonight. The four seven-figure breakout yearlings, including Hip. 73, the colt by Uncle Mo who brought $1.6 million Monday night, were joined by six that sold for $800,000 or more. Overall, 37 sold for $500,000 or
more."
“All in all, it was near record sale in every statistical evaluation, said Browning. "To accomplish that coming off of the disruption of 2020, it’s remarkable. It takes the support of the buyers and it takes the support of the sellers. It starts with the sellers. There’s no chicken and egg in the horse sales business, it all starts with consignors giving you the opportunity to offer quality product. If you offer quality product the buyers will embrace what you’re trying to do. We were very fortunate to have a very, very strong catalog, with very good individuals we’ve worked hard to select and cultivate. I couldn’t be happier right now. It’s a special place. If it wasn’t the sale of the century it was awfully close to it."
"It was a great sale," said Marshall Silverman of New Freedom, Pa.,, who,, as agent, sold six. "Fasig-Tipton did a great job. There was plenty of money there. It was a super, super sale. There was a low RNA.
For the fifth consecutive year, a seven-figure juvenile topped the Timonium sale.
These latest reforms are in addition to restrictions put in place earlier this year for 2-year-old sales held at Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton, and follow action in 2009 to ban the use of anabolic steroids in sales horses and last year’s ban on the off-label use of bisphosphonates in horses younger than four years old.
The company came to the decision after evaluating the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic for the last several weeks.
The platform will be available for Fasig-Tipton's next scheduled auction, the Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale, to be held June 29-30 in Timonium, Md.
“This auction is vital not only to Keeneland, but to the entire Thoroughbred industry and the Central Kentucky community at large,” Keeneland President and CEO Bill Thomason said. “The Keeneland sales team is moving forward full steam with plans for the September Sale. Like every aspect of life right now, there are unknowns and we do not have all the answers yet. However, one thing is certain: We are committed to work in partnership with our consignors and buyers to provide the same world-class marketplace for which Keeneland is known.”
