Fasig-Tipton Digital Platform

Starship Beauty (Hard Spun--Callmethesqueeze, by Awesome Again), a half-sister to GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks winner and GI Kentucky Derby hopeful Fulleffort (Liam's Map), brought $310,000 from HX3 Incorporated during a one-horse 'flash sale' on the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform. Bidding closed Apr. 29 at 2 p.m. ET The 6-year-old mare was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, and was offered carrying her first foal by top 10 stallion Constitution. Starship Beauty is also a half-sister to 2025 GI Alabama Stakes heroine Power Squeeze (Union Rags) and to two-time stakes winner...

The Fasig-Tipton Digital Platform launched in March 2022, with 10 lots selling for $856,000, topped by a share in the stallion Almanzor (Fr) that made $250,000. Suffice to say that 33 months later, the platform has found its footing and has increasingly gained acceptance in the marketplace. The just-concluded December Digital sale looked a whole lot different than that inaugural event, as better than 400 horses were reported as sold, resulting in turnover of over $10 million, believed by sales officials to be the highest-grossing sale of its kind anywhere...