Solomini filly shares top spot at OBS finale

A filly from the first crop of New York-based sire Solomini sold for $200,000 to share top honors as the most expensive New York-bred of the final session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training Wednesday.

Five Fools Racing purchased Hip 760[2], who is out of the Rockport Harbor mare Passeporta, from the Top Line Sales LLC consignment. The filly, bred by Torie Gladwell and foaled at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, is the seventh foal out of Passeporta.

Passeporta is the dam of three winners led by $110,949-earner Cold Snack Thirty and $88,443-earner Kris’ Wild Kat.

Solomini, a Grade 1-placed son of Curlin out of the Storm Cat mare Surf Song, stands for $6,500 at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs. He was the state’s leading first-crop yearling sire by average price and number sold in 2022.

Five juveniles sold for $100,000 or more during the final session, bringing the total haul of New York-breds to bring that price to 14 for the sale.

Hip 576[4], a colt by Tapiture out of the City Zip mare Just Cat, also commanded a $200,000 bid Wednesday. Winchell Thoroughbreds purchased the colt, who was bred by Davie Bloodstock LLC and Paradise Farms Inc., foaled at Edition Farm in Hyde Park and sold for $20,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale.

The colt, who was consigned at OBS by Fast Horses, is the second foal out of Just Cat. Her first foal, the 3-year-old New York-bred Freud filly Ma Mi Jo Dreams, has made four starts after selling for $120,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale of 2-year-olds in training.

OBS reported sales on 13 of the 18 New York-breds through the ring Wednesday for a total of $1,134,000 and an average price of $87,230. Overall, 42 of the 54 New York-breds offered over the three days sold for $4,922,500, an average price of $117,202.

The most expensive New York-bred sold Tuesday, when Japan’s Katsumi Yoshida went to $1.05 million to purchase a full-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Cave Rock. Sold as Hip 489[5] by Tom McCrocklin, agent, the Arrogate colt is out of the graded stakes-winning Bellamy Road mare Georgie’s Angel. He finished as one of five seven-figure juveniles and the third most expensive horse sold at the sale.

Bred by Kathleen Schweizer and foaled at her Longford Farm in Elmira, the colt topped the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred sale on a bid of $700,000 from McCrocklin on behalf of Champion Equine. That sale came two days after Cave Rock blitzed a field of maidens at Del Mar in his debut. Cave Rock went on to win the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity and Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita Park before a second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland Race Course.

Cave Rock’s younger brother is the sixth foal out of 2011 Schuylerville Stakes winner Georgie’s Angel, who is also the dam of winners Take Charge Angel, Frosted Angel and Rue de l’Ange. Longford Farm purchased Georgie’s Angel, carrying Wednesday’s seven-figure seller in utero, for $75,000 at the 2020 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Georgie’s Angel is also the dam of a New York-bred yearling filly by Improbable. She was bred to Connect in 2022.

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