Hip 227, a New York-bred yearling filly by classic winner and Horse of the Year Authentic, sells for $725,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Susie Raisher Photo.
By Melissa Bauer-Herzog
The lone New York-bred to sell during this week’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale left the ring with a bang Tuesday night on a bid of $725,000 from Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation.
Bred by 30 Year Farm and offered by Paramount Sales, the Authentic filly out of unraced Bellamy Road mare Achalaya sold late in the final session as Hip 227 after not selling on a bid of $390,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale. The price was the sixth highest price for a filly at the Saratoga Sale and the fourth highest paid for a yearling from the first crop of 2020 Horse of the Year and Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Authentic.
The filly came into the ring with a big update after multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed won the Grade 3 Kelso Stakes July 15 at Saratoga Race Course. A son of Jimmy Creed, Casa Creed is 8-5-5 in 32 stars with $2,185,308 in earnings.
The Authentic filly’s Grade 3-winning half-brother Chess’s Dream also registered updated earnings after the catalog was released when second at Tampa Bay Downs on July 1. A son of Jess’s Dream, he’s earned $237,418.
The updates didn’t stop there with Achalaya’s 3-year-old colt Direct Drive breaking his maiden July 30 at Woodbine to become her fourth winner from four to race. Claimed from that start for $40,000, the colt was previously trained by Mark Casse, who signed the ticket for Weber on the Authentic filly.
“I just thought she was a big, nice filly. You’ve got to love the pedigree,” Casse said. “I trained the half-brother, he just broke his maiden. But, I mean, Casa Creed, just a solid, solid family. We’ve been waiting all night.”
The pedigree also featured an update under this filly’s second dam when Achalaya’s half-sister saw Grade 3-winning son Ridin With Biden register his eighth career victory June 18 at Parx Racing followed by a third in the Battery Park Stakes at Delaware Park. Stakes form runs deep in this family with the filly’s third dam the dam of Grade 1 winner Man From Wicklow in addition to the filly’s own multiple graded stakes winning granddam Wild Heart Dancing.
Achalaya foaled another New York-bred this year when delivering a Curlin filly April 30 for 30 Year Farm. That was the second foal for 30 Year Farm out of the mare after they bought her carrying the Authentic filly for $725,000 at the 2021 Keeneland November breeding stock sale from Gainesway, agent.
Buyers will have plenty of opportunity to purchase more products from the Empire State during the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale Sunday and Monday.
– Additional reporting by Nolan Clancy
