Strong demand for NY-breds at Timonium sale

A pair of New York-breds sold for $350,000 apiece to highlight Day 1 of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale of 2-year-olds in training in Timonium, Maryland.

The first came approaching the midpoint of the opening session when Kerri Radcliffe, agent, signed for Hip 127[2], a colt by Liam’s Map out of the unraced Arch mare Darby Blush.

Bred by Winter Creek Farm and foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm in Schuylerville, the colt is the third out of the Darby Blush and a half-brother to Grade 2-placed Grantham.

Consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables Inc., the colt was a $280,000 purchase by L.E.B. out of the Saratoga Glen Farm consignment at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

The Liam’s Map colt breezed a furlong in :10.2 during presale workouts.

Jacob West’s West Bloodstock, agent for Repole Stable, purchased the other $350,000 juvenile, Hip 268[4], a filly by Vino Rosso out of the stakes-placed Malibu Moon mare Lunar Gaze.

Bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds LLC and Lakland Farm, foaled at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson and consigned by Sequel Bloodstock, agent, the filly is the second foal out of Lunar Gaze and breezed a furlong in :10.1 during presale workouts. The mare’s first foal, the unraced Gun Runner filly Oak Street Beach, sold for $335,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale.

Sequel’s Becky Thomas purchased Lunar Gaze, carrying the Vino Rosso filly in utero, for $90,000 at the 2020 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

The two $350,000 juveniles were part of a large group of New York-breds that sold well Monday. Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 39 of the 53 New York-breds offered sold for $3,411,500, an average price of $87,474 and median of $60,000.

Foals from the first crop of New York-based stallion Solomini continued to sell well.

Hip 285[6], a filly Solomini out of the winning Competitive Edge mare Maru went to Jewel Box Racing for $150,000. Bred by E.V. Racing, foaled at Old Saratoga Equine Services in Schuylerville and consigned by Top Line Sales, the filly is the first foal out of Maru, a New York-bred and winner on the NYRA circuit in 2020 for E.V. Racing Stable.

The sale continues with the second and final session at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2023/05/23/strong-demand-for-ny-breds-at-timonium-sale/

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