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At first I was pretty disappointed that I could not attend the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale.  The sale was only two days, Monday and Tuesday, February 8 – 9, 2016 and I had to work.  Instead, I was able to go out for nearly four hours the day prior to the sale kickoff and spend time visiting and photographing the Thoroughbreds.  It was cool and dry, that Sunday I spent at the barns, which was the last of that weather.  Winter Mixed is a great name because it not only describes the variety of available bloodstock but the term fits the rain, sleet and snow that fell throughout the sale.  I don’t like cold and wet so I was happy to follow along on the live feed.

The Winter Mixed had 528 Thoroughbreds cataloged.  Of these 341 sold at a total price of over $8.2 million dollars.  The average hip sold for more than $24 thousand dollars.  The sale offered broodmares, racing or broodmare prospects and short yearlings.  Day 1 of the sale featured hips 1 thru 296 and day 2 featured the remaining hips.  I learned something very interesting about the cataloging from this sale.  When the catalog for an auction house is produced the horses are assigned their hip order based on an alphabetical listing of either their own registered name or, if they have yet to be named, the name of their dam.  A letter is drawn at random to start numbering (hip 1) and then the numbers are assigned in alphabetical order thereafter.  In a select sale the groupings can be made based on quality but not in a mixed sale such as this.  That explains why at a select sale one might see the highest priced horses featured on a particular day but in a mixed sale, like this, it just so happened that day 2 had more sought after horses.

This sale had 14 horses sell for 6 figure prices.  The sale topper was hip 426, Flashy American for $395,000.  She is a pretty 7 year old gray/roan sired by Flashy Bull, her dam is Inn Between.  Flashy American is pregnant by 2013 Kentucky Derby winner, Orb.  2016 will bring Orb’s 1st crop.  She was consigned by Taylor Made Sales and purchased by Blue Sky Stable.  She may be bred to Tapit next.  She was sold at Fasig-Tipton in the 2015 Kentucky Selected Fall Mixes Sale for $360,000 but the owner defaulted upon her offer.  Funfair (hip 431) went for $350,000.  Achiever’s Legacy (519) sold for $330,000 as did Stoweshoe (522, seen in the above promo poster).  Maggie D’ Oro (55) was session 1’s topper at $210,000.  Zundaq (296) and Dorothy’s Spirit (403, seen below on the top) each sold for $190,000.  Kateri (18, seen below on the bottom) fetched $167,000.  Bonnie Bear (338) and Darling Bird (389) both had a price of $150,000.  Suzy Sage (228) followed at $130,000.  Aunt Ellen (314) sold for $115,000.  Finally Lady Zieg (28) and the yearling topper, a colt out of Bala and sired by Violence (318), each sold for $100,000.

Dorothy’s Spirit’s sire was the late and great Scat Daddy who passed away this past December of an apparent but unexpected heart attack at only 11 years old.  9 horses in this sale were Scat Daddy progeny and 7 sold.  Another of his offspring is Lady Gayle (26, seen below).  She sold for just $14,000.  While there was quite a price range on his lineage there was a high demand for the mares pregnant with a Scat Daddy sired foal.  Funfair, Maggie D’ Oro and Bonnie Bear, all toppers, are all in foal by Scat Daddy.

I was pretty impressed to see the next two Thoroughbreds.  It’s Elementary (11, seen below at left) won 1st place at Gulfstream Park last Friday 2/5/16.  She was not sold.  Crocus Hill (383, featured below on the right) came in 2nd at Tampa Bay 2/6/16.  She is sired by Medaglia D’Oro and sold for just $30,000.  I’m going to keep a lookout for these two to see if they race again soon.

Finally, who doesn’t love, love, love a baby?  A few broodmares had their foals pre-sale but they still go thru the auction as a package deal. Tecnica (239) and her lovely Discreetly Mine foal were a joy to watch.  They sold for just $14,000.  That foal was already off and running.  He gave his handler some trouble keeping up!  Look at this adorable baby below.

I’m sure I would have loved the auction rain or shine, or sleet and snow.  One thing I am sure of, I am still really glad I was blessed to see many of the Thoroughbreds before they changed hands and futures.  I’m anxious to see how these grads perform at racing and breeding.  Please, share my auction story and comment with your experiences at the sales.  Check back in for next week’s story too.

 

 

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