Truancy, a two-time winner and earner of $135,350, sold for $55,000 at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale. Photo provided by Bill Reightler.
Truancy, a 4-year-old winning New York-bred daughter of Run Away and Hide, and a colt by the late former New York-based sire Combatant finished among the top-selling horses at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale in Timonium, Maryland.
Broodmare prospect Truancy, offered as Hip 127 by consignor Bill Reightler, agent, sold for $55,000 to Country Life Farm, agent. She ended the single-session sale as the second highest-priced horse overall.
Bred by Dr. Jerry Bilinski and foaled at his Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, Truancy is out of the stakes-winning Successful Appeal mare Successfully Sweet. A half-sister to stakes winner and $398,875-earner Confrontation and stakes-placed Catch a Thrill, Truancy won two of six starts with two seconds and earned $135,350 racing for owner Eric Dattner and trainer Barclay Tagg.
Flatbird Stable purchased by Combatant colt, offered as Hip 82 and co-fifth most expensive horse at the sale and second highest-priced weanling at $40,000. Bred by Harry Landry and James Hogan, foaled at H&H Farm in Fort Edward and consigned by Harry L. Landy Bloodstock LLC, agent, the gray or roan colt is out of the unraced Zensational mare Matinee Express.
Matinee Express is the dam of four winners led by New York-bred stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Vacation Dance.
Combatant, a son of Scat Daddy who won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap in 2020, died suddenly from colic after just starting the Southern Hemisphere season in August 2022. He stood his first season in North America for $7,500 and bred 85 mares in his initial book at Rockridge Stud in Hudson. The former Hronis Racing-owned Combatant was sold to Brian Levings of Levings Racing to stand at Rockridge in a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock, Colt Pike and David Ingordo.
Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 11 of the 20 New York-breds offered for a total of $168,500, an average price of $15,318 and median of $5,000.
