Fasig-Tipton

Robert Slack, celebrating his 78th birthday last Tuesday, had a ready answer when asked about his goals for his Kentucky-based Stoneriggs Farm. "Live long enough to watch it prosper," he said with a chuckle. "I wish I had gotten into it 10 years earlier, but I wasn't able to at that stage." Stoneriggs Farm has been in operation in Paris, Kentucky for just four years, but Slack is already well on his way to realizing that goal, not just in the sales ring, but also on the racetrack where the...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued an additional 28 entries, which includes GISW Unbridled Mo (Uncle Mo), to its upcoming Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, to be held on Monday, Feb. 3 in Lexington, Kentucky, according to an auction company press release on Thursday. These newest entries to the sale are catalogued as hips 376-403. Unbridled Mo (Hip 401), winner of the GI Apple Blossom Handicap and a multiple graded stakes winning millionaire on the racetrack, is a half-sister to GSW Unbridled Essence (Essence of Dubai). She is offered as part of the dispersal...

Listed Pegasus Stakes winner Tuscan Sky (Vino Rosso) will be staying in his same stall after Mike Repole purchased the 4-year-old colt for $450,000 from Spendthrift Farm during the Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale which concluded Tuesday. West Bloodstock's Jacob West, who signed the ticket on Repole's behalf, noted that the colt would stay just where he was. "He'll stay with Todd [Pletcher]," said West. "He'll point towards all the older horse graded stakes that are out there. We thought he was a horse that offered a lot of upside for...

Stakes-winning Tuscan Sky (Vino Rosso) (hip 7), winner of last year's listed Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park, topped the Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale Tuesday when selling for $450,000 to West Bloodstock. The January Digital Sale, which saw an average of $28,073 and a clearance rate of 79% for its catalogue of horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares and short yearlings, closed Tuesday evening with 107 horses sold for $3,003,900. The 4-year-old Tuscan Sky, last raced in the GIII Harlan's Holiday Stakes Dec. 21, was offered as a horse of...

Barry Irwin is the first person to admit that he wasn't a fan of digital sales when they first came on the scene about a decade ago. "I make my living buying and selling in the private marketplace, and when the digital sales first came around in Europe, I was very upset," he said, adding that he thought that at the time, sales companies were promising owners unreasonable prices on their horses which made it harder to buy privately for an appropriate price. "I didn't like the fact that I...

Tessa Walden has always had an interest in trading horses, finding the value in an equine athlete and matching them up with a program that fits their credentials. Recently, the longtime assistant trainer for Brad Cox has turned her passion into something bigger with the launch of Evergreen Equine, a bloodstock agency that focuses on selling horses via digital sales. "I think one of the most exciting things for me is selling a horse that you are passionate about, because if you love it then someone else is going to...

A total of 206 horses of all ages have been catalogued for the Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale, which can be viewed at digital.fasigtipton.com. Bidding has begun and will close on Tuesday, Jan. 21 beginning at 2 p.m. ET. Among the offerings are 70 horses of racing age and racing prospects, in addition to broodmares, broodmare prospects and newly turned yearlings. Among the covering sires represented are Authentic, Complexity, Epicenter, Girvin, Omaha Beach, Tiz the Law, Uncle Mo, and Vekoma. The January Digital Sale will also feature a no-guarantee season to...

Fasig-Tipton has released the first group of supplemental entries for its Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale--adding 27 head to the auction--which will take place on Monday, Feb. 3, beginning at 10 a.m. ET in Lexington, Kentucky, the company said via a press release on Wednesday. These latest entries, catalogued as hip 349-375, include: Greavette (Astern {Aus}) (Hip 356): 4-year-old MSW is consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by Grovendale Sales, agent. R Harper Rose (Khozan) (Hip 364): Four-year-old who won the GIII Forward Gal Stakes last year. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect...

To honor Frank Taylor's Special Eclipse Award, Fasig-Tipton issued a $25,000 matching grant to benefit Taylor's Stable Recovery program, the sales company announced Friday morning. Shortly after the grant was announced, Craig Bernick informed Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning that the Lavin Family Foundation would match the gift, raising the challenge grant's total to $50,000. Taylor will receive a special Eclipse Award at the Eclipse Award ceremony Thursday, Jan. 23, for the work he has done in building Stable Recovery and the Taylor Made School of Horsemanship, two programs that work...

9th-GP, $94K, Msw, 4yo/up, f, 7f (AWT), 4:34 p.m. ET The impeccably-bred RUMOURS HAVE IT (Tapit) gets another shot to get off the mark following a 3/4-length defeat in her Nov. 22 debut at the Halladale oval. In front in the stretch that day, the daughter of dual champion Songbird (Medaglia d'Oro) was caught late by West Loop (Munnings) and had to play the bridesmaid. Trained by Todd Pletcher, the Whisper Hill Farm homebred is the third foal out of Songbird, who realized $9.5 million at Fasig-Tipton November after her...

While 'TDN Rising Star' Tamara (Bolt d'Oro) will be a main attraction on the Dec. 26 opening-day card at Santa Anita, another highly anticipated foal who is also out of the fan-favorite champion Beholder--this one an unnamed and unraced 2-year-old colt by Curlin--fired a bullet three-furlong morning move Saturday in just his third published workout for trainer Bob Baffert and owner Zedan Racing. The in-company :36 clocking (1/18) just prior to the Christmas holiday on a non-racing Saturday at Santa Anita might have flown a touch under-the-radar for a juvenile...

In what is believed to be a world record for a Thoroughbred auction conducted exclusively online, Fasig-Tipton's December Digital Sale closed its two-day run Wednesday evening with gross sales of $10,031,000. With more than 1,200 bidders registered, 401 horses changed hands at an average of $25,015. "We're ecstatic over the results of the December Digital Sale, and over 2024 overall," said Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron. "We've done over $10,000,000 in sales over the last few days, with more than $45,000,000 in gross over the year. We couldn't...