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Getting a big boost from Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock manager John Ferguson, the Fasig-Tipton November Select Mixed Sale posted increases in its average and median prices Sunday, November 4 in Lexington. But with 63 fewer horses sold than a year ago, when the numbers in the catalog were pumped up by the ClassicStar dispersal, the gross revenue declined.<\/p>\n
“They liked young, successful race mares, I can tell you that, and we had a lot of wonderful mares,” said Fasig-Tipton president Walt Robertson. “I think we had a comparable market to last year.”<\/p>\n
The 107 horses sold grossed $52,036,000 and averaged $486,318. The median was $180,000. Compared to a year ago, the gross declined 19%, but the average and median grew 29% and 3%, respectively. The buy-back rate rose from 24% in 2006 to 26% this year. Twelve horses sold for $1 million or more apiece.<\/p>\n
Ferguson spent $15,750,000 for one broodmare, GI winner Indy Five Hundred, who is in foal to Kingmambo, and three GI-winning broodmare prospects: Round Pond, Octave, and Asi Siempre.<\/p>\n
Ferguson had to fight off the trio of Nick Zito, Leonard Riggio of My Meadowview Farm, and bloodstock agent Lincoln Collins to get Round Pond, whose $5.75 million price was the highest for a horse sold by Fasig-Tipton since GI winner Miss Oceana brought $7 million, as part of the Newstead Farm dispersal in 1985, while she was in foal to Northern Dancer.<\/p>\n
Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, acting on behalf of Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farms, Round Pond scored in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff and won four other added-money events, including the 2005 G1 Acorn Stakes. She is a 5-year-old daughter of Awesome Again x Gift of Dance, by Trempolino.<\/p>\n
“Any mare that wins a Breeders’ Cup is very special, and a mare by a top stallion out of a half-sister to three Group (Grade) I winners is obviously a really top prospect,” Ferguson said. “It’s a lot of money to pay, but if you want to buy the best mares, you have to bid more than everybody else thinks they’re worth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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