Stakes-placed Wasp sold for $200,000 Tuesday, finishing as the most expensive New York-bred sold at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale. Photo courtesy of Taylor Made Sales Agency.
Wasp, a multiple winner who finished third in last year’s Yaddo Handicap on Saratoga Showcase Day, sold for $200,000 to highlight the final day of bidding at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale in Lexington.
Bullseye Bloodstock purchased the 6-year-old daughter of American Pharoah, who sold as Hip 592 as a racing or broodmare prospect. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, Wasp is out of the Distorted Humor mare Visions of Annette.
Bred by Joanne Nielsen, Wasp originally sold for $450,000 as the top-priced filly at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. She later brought $350,000 at the 2019 OBS April sale of 2-year-olds in training. Campaigned by A1A Racing, Wasp won three of 14 starts with seven placings for earnings of $242,380. She finished fifth in an open-company allowance in late November in her most recent start.
Wash finished the session as the co-fifth most expensive broodmare or racing prospect and was the highest-priced New York-bred sold over two days.
Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 22 of the 23 New York-breds through the ring Tuesday for $520,500, an average price of $23,659 and median of $7,500. Overall and including post-sale receipts, 44 of the 46 New York-breds through the ring brought $1,201,700, an average price of $27,311 and median of $11,500.
The second most expensive horse and highest-priced New York-bred short yearling Tuesday was Hip 447, a colt from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Vekoma who brought $62,000 from Carlos Munoz. Bred by Highclere Inc., the colt is out of the unraced Indian Charlie mare Wabanaki. A half-sister to stakes winner Held Accountable and two stakes-placed runners, Wabanaki is the dam of three winners.
