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The Fasig-Tipton October Digital sale closed Wednesday evening with broodmare Stifled Heiress (Munnings) as the topper when she was taken home for $470,000 and 240 horses sold for $4,947,500, according to a press release from the auction company on Wednesday. Offering horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares, yearlings, and weanlings, the online sale closed over two days with Stifled Heiress (hip 242), who is in foal to Leinster, going to Pursuit of Success LLC from the consignment of SGV Thoroughbreds, agent. The daughter of Munnings is already the dam...

Nicolas Lefevre will serve as a bloodstock consultant for I Want The Winner, which launched on Mar. 15. Lefevre, who started his own bloodstock agency Equos Racing International in 2018, previously worked for Louis Le Metayer among others during a lengthy spell in Australia and New Zealand. Earlier in his career, Lefevre spent time at Cheveley Park Stud in the UK and His Highness The Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud in Ireland for two consecutive breeding seasons. Lefevre will also assist in promoting the development of the online sales platform. "It's...