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Near the end of the final session of Fasig-Tipton's 104th The Saratoga Sale, Resolute Bloodstock went to $3 million for a son of Spendthrift Farm's Into Mischief. The colt is the second foal of the graded stakes-placed Bernardini mare Lady…
Spendthrift Farm signed the ticket for a colt out of their leading sire Into Mischief for $2.6 million on the final night of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale Aug. 5. He is out of the grade 1-winning mare I'm a Chatterbox.
Zedan and Lanni purchased the sale topper in both of the last two years, and they just missed making it three in a row.
Mike Repole went to $1,025,000 to acquire a half sister to Seize the Grey, by first-crop yearling sire Life Is Good, out of the Mill Ridge Sales consignment Aug. 5 at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale.
There was plenty of anticipation in the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion as the half sister to this year's Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism arrived in the ring as Hip 165 for the final session of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale.
The buyer of Flightline in 2019, West Point Thoroughbreds went to seven figures each for a filly and a colt by the 2022 Horse of the Year.
Highlights from the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale
Hip 218 topped the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale at $4.1M to Coolmore and White Birch Farm. Boyd Browning credited the record-shattering sale to the team’s hard work, expressing gratitude for their role in its success.
This year's edition of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale not only set records, it smashed them. The sale saw 160 yearlings sell for $100,715,000, up 23% from last year's gross. Average spiked 18% to $629,469 and median improved 5.9% to $450,000.
Jockey Tyler Conner, who suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a spill at Colonial Downs July 24, said in a video message Aug. 4 that he is working to regain full feeling in his extremities and expressed appreciation for…