Taylor Made Sales

Demand for progeny by Horse of the Year Flightline stayed strong throughout Monday's session of Keeneland September as a filly (hip 168) sold for $1,500,000 to Japan's Naohiro Sakaguchi. The filly is a daughter of 'TDN Rising Star' Taylor S (Medaglia d'Oro) who is herself a half-sister to both fellow 'Rising Star' Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song) and current hot sire Not This Time (Giant's Causeway). Bred by Albaugh Family Stables, she was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency. Sakaguchi also struck earlier in the session for another Flightline, purchasing a...

5 (tie). INTREPIDO, DMR, 8/23, 1 mile R1 Beyer Speed Figure- 84 (VIDEO) (r, 2, by Maximus Mischief--Overly Indulgent, by Pleasantly Perfect) O-Dutch Girl Holdings and Irving Ventures. B-Sierra Fria Farm. T-Jeff Mullins. J-Hector Berrios. En route to a 3 1/4-length win in his second start, he jointly set the pace then decisively rebuffed a quarter-pole bid from Spendthrift's odds-on Baffert first timer Provenance (Into Mischief-Monomoy Girl). He may be an overachiever: his three siblings to race have started 42 times with a top Beyer figure of 74. 5 (tie)....

During this year's Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Len and Jon Green's D.J. Stable will offer a curated reduction of its bloodstock portfolio consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, the auction house said in a press release on Thursday. While their reduction represents a meaningful milestone, the Greens remain as committed as ever to the sport. D.J. Stable will continue to be active in racing and at future sales, with plans to invest in new opportunities and further grow their presence in the sport. "This is a one-time offering--strategic and...

A colt by Not This Time (hip 66) sold for $1,400,000 on a final bid from Kjell Anderson. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, the colt is a half to four stakes horses including GISW Union Strike (Union Rags), MGSW Handsome Mike (Scat Daddy), SW Pretty Lady (Scat Daddy) and SP Classic Sense (Street Sense).

Horse racing is notoriously slow to embrace change. Take yearling inspection, for example. Walk up to the consignment, get a paper card and a pen and fill out the horses you want to see, and get in line to wait your turn. That's how it has always happened. But if the Taylor Made Sales Agency has anything to say about it, pretty soon, everyone will arrive with their pre-made selections, hold their QR code up to a scanner, and get ready to see their horses, courtesy of their new OpenRing...

Spirit Wind (Bahamian Squall), a multiple graded stakes winner of more than $730,000, was sold post-RNA for $500,000 to Willingham Stud, Fasig-Tipton announced Wednesday. Spirit Wind was initially not sold on a final bid of $450,000 in Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale. Taylor Made Sales Agency consigned the 6-year-old mare, whose marquee win came in the GII Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga last summer. Her $500,000 sale makes Spirit Wind the highest-price horse offered in the March Digital Sale, which concluded Tuesday with gross receipts now in excess of $3,600,000....

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB) will honor Frank Taylor and the Stable Recovery Program with the Special Eclipse Award for service to the Thoroughbred industry at the Resolute Racing 54th Annual Eclipse Awards Dinner and Ceremony at The Breakers Palm Beach in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 23, according to a press release from the NTRA on Thursday. Taylor, along with Stable Recovery CEO Christian Countzler, is the driving force behind that organization and the Taylor Made School of...

Extending the activity that has been building through earlier sessions, the eighth day of selling at the Keeneland November Sale offered more of the same as witnessed by gross receipts closing at over $184.6 million (through the ring), well ahead of the $173,925,300 sold through this point in 2023. Heading Tuesday, Music City Stables acquired a weanling filly (Hip 2935) from the first crop of stakes winner Nashville for $85,000 to record the highest purchase of the next-to-last session. Consigned by Buckland Sales (Zach Madden), agent, the filly is out...

Showing continued overall strength through the middle of the market, Keeneland's seventh day of the November Sale extended the upward trend that it had shown through much of the first six days of selling. At the conclusion of Monday's session, gross sales (through the ring) reached $181,460,500, surpassing last year's gross of $176.5 million for the entire nine-day run. Highlighting Monday's action, a weanling colt by Upstart (Hip 2680) drew a session-topping $155,000 bid from Margaret Duprey's Cherry Knoll Farm. A member of the Indian Creek consignment, the Jan. 15...

by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis LEXINGTON, KY - Solid trade continued right through the conclusion of the second and final Book 2 section of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Thursday, with the 3-year-old broodmare Finesse (Street Sense) bringing the section's top price of $900,000 when selling to Dixiana Farms. "It was really solid today," said Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy. "It was very competitive. I was speaking to a lot of buyers out there, and they were finding it very difficult to buy the foals that...

Offered as Hip 220 by Taylor Made Sales, Shotgun Hottie (Gun Runner) realized $1.5 million from the Emir of Qatar's Wathnan Racing during Keeneland's Book 1 of the November Sale. Winner of the GIII Molly Pitcher Stakes, the millionaire is out of the unraced Re Entry (Malibu Moon). The 5-year-old hails from the family of GISWs Sky Diva and Pure Clan.

LEXINGTON, KY - The Fasig-Tipton October Yearlings Sale continued its brisk pace Wednesday, with figures tracking towards a record gross figure as the auction heads into its final session Thursday. "It was another excellent session of the October sale," said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. "The sale continued to show strength and consistency in bidding activity from the beginning to the end of the session." Through three sessions, 839 yearlings have grossed $43,346,500 for an average of $51,664 and a median of $20,000. At the same point a year ago,...