Hip 768, a colt by Game Winner bred by Dr. Jerry Bilinski, sold for $450,000 Thursday at the Keeneland September yearling sale. Photo courtesy of Paramount Sales.
A colt by Game Winner sold for $450,000 Thursday to lead a group of six New York-breds that brought six-figure prices for Books 1 and 2 at the Keeneland September yearling sale.
Cherie DeVaux, agent for Belladonna Racing, signed for the colt, offered as Hip 768 out of the Paramount Sales consignment. Bred by Dr. Jerry Bilinkski and foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, the colt is out of the winning D’wildcat mare D’fashion.
The colt from the second crop of champion and multiple Grade 1 winner Game Winner is the seventh out of D’fashion, who is the dam of stakes winner Strategic Dreams and winners D’archer, Canyouhearmenow, Light and Path and Garbar Boy. Bilinski, through his Waldorf Farm, purchased D’fashion carrying the Game Winner colt in utero for $75,000 at the 2022 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Hip 798, a filly by Nyquist bred by Denlea Park LTD, sold for $350,000 Thursday at Keeneland. Photo courtesy of St George Sales.
The top-priced filly over the first four sessions also sold Thursday. Hip 798, a daughter of Nyquist and full-sister to New York-bred stakes winner Curly Girl, brought $350,000 from Dan Hayden, agent for Blue Devil Racing.
Bred by Denlea Park LTD, foaled at Rockridge Stud in Hudson and consigned by St George Sales, agent, the filly is the eighth foal out of the winning Forest Wildcat mare Falconess. In addition to Curly Girl, winner of the 2021 Lady Finger Stakes and placed in four other stakes, Falconess is the dam of winners Bostonian, Coniston, Mabrouk and Polpis.
Falconess was purchased by Denlea Park in foal to Tapizar for $67,000 at the 2016 Keeneland November sale.
Keeneland reported sales on nine of the 12 New York-breds through the ring over the first four days for $1,540,000, an average price of $171,111 and median of $130,000.
The sale continues Saturday with Book 3 after Friday’s scheduled dark day.
