Mucho Dinero for Tapit Filly

While a bidding dispute delayed the process, Tom McGreevy, agent for Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farm, came out on top at $775,000 for hip 154, a Tapit half-sister to last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno). Among the other entities in on the action for the Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency-consigned filly was Ocala-based Northwest Stud. 
    “She was my number-one pick for the day,” said McGreevy by phone. “After we looked at everything today, and we lost a couple after vetting, she was the only horse on our list today.” 
    McGreevy admitted that he was somewhat surprised to get the filly as ‘cheaply’ as he did. 
    “Before the sale, that’s about what we thought she was worth, but Rick and I both believed that she’d probably bring more than that and we wouldn’t be able to buy her,” he explained. “We bought her for what we thought she was worth, but with her pedigree and all, you could easily see why she could have brought more.” 
    McGreevy added, “But it’s still a lot of money!” 
    Porter’s operation has had plenty of past success with progeny of leading sire Tapit. Among those to carry the Fox Hill red and white was Grade I-winning $1.2-million earner Joyful Victory, who sold for $2 million at last year’s Keeneland November sale as a broodmare prospect. This year’s Fox Hill standouts by the Gainesway inmate include Coup de Grace, winner of the GII Amsterdam S. and GIII Bay Shore S. and most recently third in the GI King’s Bishop S.; and 
“TDN Rising Star” Cassatt, who annexed the GIII Monmouth Oaks by open lengths Aug. 9 in her stakes debut.