Hip 638, a filly by Volatile bred by The New Hill Farm, sold for $150,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale. Photo provided by Paramount Sales.
A filly from the first crop of Volatile matched the top price paid for a New York-bred thus far at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale Tuesday in Lexington.
Trainer Ken McPeek, agent, went to $150,000 to purchase Hip 638, a gray or roan filly out of the stakes-placed Jump Start mare Ignite. Bred by and foaled at The New Hill Farm in Hoosick Falls and consigned by Paramount Sales, agent, the filly is the second foal out of Ignite and originally sold for $90,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.
The $150,000 price matched the bid of Gary Anderson for Hip 223, a colt by Liam’s Map out of the unraced Honor Code mare Celtic Honor, during Monday’s opening session.
Hip 781, a filly by Audible bred by Beals Racing Stable and Saratoga Glen Farm, sold for $82,000 Wednesday. Photo provided by Paramount Sales.
Hip 781, a filly by 2018 New York-bred champion 3-year-old male Audible, sold for $82,000 during Wednesday’s session. Legion Bloodstock, agent for JCE Racing, purchased the filly out of the unraced Uncle Mo mare Little Bullet.
The Audible filly was bred by Beals Racing Stable LLC and Saratoga Glen Farm LLC and foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm in Schuylerville. Consigned by Paramount Sales, agent, she originally sold as a weanling for $33,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale. Little Bullet is also the dam of the unraced 2-year-old New York-bred gelding Sox for Daughters and a New York-bred weanling filly by Tacitus that sold for $30,000 at the recent Saratoga fall mixed sale.
Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 26 of the 36 New York-breds offered during Tuesday’s session for a total of $802,500, an average price of $30,865 and median of $25,000. Overall, 47 of the 65 New York-breds through the ring have sold for $1,253,000, an average. price of $26,660 and median of $15,000.
The sale continued with the third of four sessions at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
