Written by TDN America
The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale, which had a string of record-setting renewals interrupted only by its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, got back on track with a strong opening session at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion.
At A Glance
Tom Gallo was so impressed by an Uncle Mo (USA) filly he was consigning for her co-breeders that he purchased her for his Dream Maker Racing partnership for a session-topping US$495,000 (AU$673,870).
Lane's End's David Ingordo has made no secret of how much he has been impressed by offspring of the farm's first-crop sire Accelerate (USA) and the bloodstock agent acquired another yearling by him for US$335,000 (AU$456,250) late in the session.
After watching his filly by Army Mule (USA) sell for US$300,000 (AU$408,500), Windylea Farm's Kip O'Neill dedicated the result to his late father and Windylea founder Philip O'Neill.
A total of 62 yearlings sold Sunday night for a gross of US$6,497,500 (AU$8.85 million), the average was US$104,798 (AU$142,700) and the median was US$80,000 (AU$108,950).
During the first session of the 2019 New York-bred Sale, 66 horses sold for US$5,972,500 (AU$8.1 million). The average was US$90,492 (AU$123,200) and the median was US$75,000 (AU$102,150).
Uncle Mo a dream for Gallo
Tom Gallo was so impressed by an Uncle Mo filly (Hip 341) he was consigning for her co-breeders that he purchased her for his Dream Maker Racing partnership for a session-topping US$495,000 (AU$673,870) Sunday at Fasig-Tipton.
“Dream Maker Racing is a racing partnership that I manage,” Gallo said. “It's a group of people who bred her. All of the offspring are bred by Mia Gallo, Mary Kopley, Michael Newton and Elizabeth Weese – they are the ones who own the mare.
“We just set a price and if she didn't bring the price, we were just going to race her ourselves, but we have to sell it from the breeding partnership to the racing partnership.
“We loved the filly, we absolutely loved her. She is a monster. From when she was young, she just had a mind of her own. We raise them as weanlings and then we ship them down to raise them in Kentucky.”
Dream Maker Racing also campaigned the yearling's half-sister Satisfy (USA) (Candy Ride {Arg}), who was second in the 2018 Iroquois S. Like that filly, Hip 341 will be trained by Bill Mott.
Ingordo stays bullish
Lane's End's David Ingordo has made no secret of how much he has been impressed by offspring of the farm's first-crop sire Accelerate (USA), and the bloodstock agent acquired another yearling by the GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner when going to US$335,000 (AU$456,250) late in the session.
“I was staying true to my TDN article where I said we would be trying to buy Accelerates,” Ingordo said after signing the ticket on Hip 385. “We bought a beautiful colt in July and I saw this filly and she has got everything you'd want to have. I love her female family.”
The filly was consigned by St Georges Sales and will be trained in California with John Sadler and is out of Delay of Game (USA) (Bernardini {USA}). The mare's half-sister is the dam of Graded stakes winner Stanford (USA) (Malibu Moon {USA}).
Emotional sale
After watching his filly by Army Mule (USA) (Hip 314) sell for US$300,000 (AU$408,500) to Maverick Racing and Siena Farm, Windylea Farm's Kip O'Neill dedicated the result to his late father and Windylea founder Philip O'Neill, who passed earlier this year.
The yearling is out of Whispering Angel (USA) (Hard Spun {USA}), a mare the father-son team purchased for just US$3000 (AU$4084) at the 2019 Keeneland January sale.
Just four months after the O'Neills purchased Whispering Angel, her son Wells Bayou (USA) (Lookin At Lucky {USA}) won the G2 Louisiana Derby.
Into Mischief a breeze
While he had been in town earlier in the week, Breeze Easy's Mike Hall did his bidding on Sunday night on the phone, going to US$300,000 (AU$408,500) to acquire a colt by Into Mischief (USA) (Hip 330) from the Winter Quarter Farm consignment.
The bay colt is out of multiple stakes winner and Graded-placed Akilina (USA) (Langfuhr {Can}) and is a half-brother to Japanese Group 1-placed Rieno Tesoro (USA) (Speightstown {USA}) and Graded winner Governor Malibu (USA) (Malibu Moon {USA}). He was bred by Richard Leahy's Oak Bluff Stables.
“He was a really nice colt,” Winter Quarter's Don Robinson said. “I actually thought he would do better, but I am perfectly happy with what he brought.”
