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ormed in 1898 by William B. Fasig and Edward A. Tipton, Fasig-Tipton Co. is North America’s oldest Thoroughbred auction company. The company currently operates 14 sales annually in five states, serving horsemen and women in the heart of Thoroughbred country in Lexington, Kentucky; New York, California, and the Midlantic region; and at the exhilarating championship meet at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Fasig-Tipton also has the distinction of having sold two Triple Crown winners as selected yearlings: 1977 Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew is a graduate of The July Sale and 2015 Triple Crown champion American Pharoah is a graduate of The Saratoga Sale. Fasig-Tipton’s traditional summer selected yearling sales – The July Sale, Saratoga Sale, and New York-bred yearlings sale – annually rank at the top of all major North American yearling sales by percentage of Grade 1 winners, graded stakes winners, and stakes winners sold. Forced to cancel these three sales in 2020 due to the pandemic, Fasig-Tipton and its staff are pleased to welcome these sales back to the company’s auction schedule in 2021. For decades, these sales have produced industry-leading results on the racetrack and in the sales ring for buyers and sellers alike.
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TABLE of CONTENTS The July Sale.........................................................................................5 Fast Start..........................................................................8 The breeder of 2019 July Sale topper always targets first major market. The Right One................................................................ 10 July Sale graduate Bell’s the One fits right in for Lothenbach Stables. Source of Success........................................................12 McPeek follows similar routine at the July Sale and beyond to find winners. The Saratoga Sale............................................................................. 15 Stamp the Ticket.......................................................... 22 Co-2019 Saratoga Sale topper showed signs of promise from the start. Top of the Pops............................................................. 24 Celebrity chef Bobby Flay soaks in Saratoga and eyes more success in 2021. Gold Rush........................................................................26 Saratoga grad and G1 winner Rushing Fall comes full circle for Bob Edwards. Talkin’ Saratoga............................................................ 30 In-depth Saratoga interview with Steve Dance and Terence Collier. New York Bred Yearlings Sale.........................................................37 Rare Exception.............................................................. 40 Co-breeders Leahy and Clement rewarded for decision to sell Brattle House. Second Strike................................................................ 42 Sackatoga, Tagg scoop horse of a lifetime in Tiz the Law at NY-Bred Sale. Gridiron Great................................................................44 Hall of Fame football coach Bill Parcells annually targets NY-Bred Sale. 2 // fasigtipton.com
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SELECTED YEARLINGS
First Yearling Sale of the Year Produces
First-Rate Results! J uly 13-14, 2021
L exington , KY
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YEARLING SALES SEASON STARTS WITH THE JULY SALE! North America’s yearling sales season starts each year in Lexington, Kentucky with the Fasig-Tipton July Sale. A premier event for the world’s leading buyers looking to purchase precocious yearlings, the July Sale has a long history of producing top athletes with superior physical conformation. The buying base at the July Sale is a perfect blend of end-users -- including some of the most successful owners in racing -- and pinhookers.
THE RETURN OF THE FRESHMAN SIRE SHOWCASE! The 2021 July Sale will mark the return of the Freshman Sire Showcase, back for the first time since 2010. Fasig-Tipton will devote a section of the catalogue exclusively to yearlings by stallions with their first crop of yearlings in 2021. 6 // fasigtipton.com
Annually ranked among the leading North American yearling sales by percentage of graded stakes winners, the sale produced seven individual graded stakes winners in 2020, including Grade 1 winners BELL’S THE ONE and SPEECH. The Fasig-Tipton July Sale has also been ranked #1 by percentage of two-year-old winners sold and repeat winners sold.
“Sellers had great success showcasing quality individuals by first-crop yearlings sires in July for years when we offered a new sire showcase. The market has now cycled back to a point in which progeny of first crop sires are in high demand once again, which makes 2021 an appropriate time to bring back the Freshman Sire Showcase. Separate and showcase your quality individuals by Freshman sires at the first yearling sale of the year.” - BOYD BROWNING,
FASIG-TIPTON PRESIDENT & CEO
2019 SALE TOPPER
HIP 22
Colt by Flatter o/o Ruth and Neva
Consignor: Indian Creek, Agent Buyer: China Horse Club / Maverick Racing
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Consigned by Indian Creek and on everyone’s short list, the colt topped the 2019 July Sale when representatives from China Horse Club and WinStar Farm’s Maverick Racing teamed up to spend $440,000 for the Kentucky-bred. “I’ve been fortunate in the fact that a lot of my yearlings have been forward looking,” King said. King keeps between seven and 10 mares a year at her 30-acre farm. She sends the mares to Kentucky to be bred and foal out and then brings them back home to Ohio. King and her small crew prep the yearlings and eventually they’re sent back to Indian Creek for the finishing touches before going to market. Owner/Breeder Susan King
FAST START Breeder of 2019 July Sale topper always targets first major market. By Tom Law
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usan King’s colt by Flatter out of her homebred mare Ruth and Neva always looked good and always got the attention of anyone who came by her farm, not far from Cincinnati near Waynesville, Ohio. When the time came to slot him into a yearling sale, King called on past success and trust. “I’ve always liked that sale, it’s the first one of the year and there’s so much optimism,” King said of the Fasig-Tipton July Sale, where she sold two yearlings in 2018. “It’s the new year, the start of the yearling sales season and something that’s been exciting to be a part of. And Fasig-Tipton always seem to send really knowledgeable people out to come look at the horses. I’ve had a lot of confidence if they said, ‘hey, this one will do real well,’ and then it would.” Fasig-Tipton’s inspection team said just that about King’s Flatter colt and buyers responded.
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King’s big hit with the Flatter colt, now named Beacon Street, came the last time the July Sale was able to be held (before the pandemic), and she’s done well at the venue in the past. In 2018 King sold another colt by Flatter for $190,000 and a filly by Mineshaft for $70,000.
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Sale I want to take advantage of being in the first sale of the year... The July Sale gives you more exposure if you do have a good horse because everybody is going to see it.” - Susan King -
Now she’s looking ahead to 2021, again with the July Sale at the front of her thoughts. “Ruth and Neva, I still have her. She’s one of the first babies I bred and raced and she was multiple stakes-placed. They named that colt Beacon Street and hopefully he goes on and does some big things,” King said. “Ruth and Neva has a Malibu Moon filly that I’m excited about. Hopefully, if everything goes right she’ll be at the July Sale.”
S A L E S TAT S F R O M PA S T 5 Y E A R S YEARLINGS SOLD FOR AS MUCH AS
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MEDIAN AS HIGH AS
$1,000,000
$100,829
$77,000
77 YEARLINGS SOLD FOR $100,000+ IN A SINGLE SALE
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JULY HORA SALE RACEHORSES SUPPORT YEARLING SALE WITH DEEPER BUYER POOL First held in 2013, the July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale has become North America’s leading source of ready-to-run racehorses. Held the afternoon before the July yearling sale, the H.O.R.A. sale has become a highly successful complement to the yearling sale, drawing a high number of endusers and trainers to the sales grounds.
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He and trainer Neil Pessin scouted a filly by Majesticperfection out of Brereton Jones’ Airdrie Stud Inc. consignment. “I will tell you that Neil Pessin loved her,” Nardiello said. “I liked her and the more I saw her leading up to the sale the more I liked her. She’s a big, elegant filly. Not big, big, but lanky, well-balanced.”
Buyer of BELL’S THE ONE, Drew Nardiello
The filly cost $155,000, what Nardiello considers “a fair price” at the first major yearling sale in America, and she joined Lothenbach’s deep roster of racehorses. By the time the 2020 season ended the filly, now a mare and named Bell’s the One, turned into one of the best older female sprinters with victories in the Grade 2 Raven Run Stakes at 3 and the Grade 1 Derby City Distaff and Grade 3 Winning Colors at 4, all before a third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.
THE RIGHT ONE July Sale graduate Bell’s the One fits right in for Lothenbach Stables. By Tom Law
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rew Nardiello found a spot in Fasig-Tipton’s Newtown Paddocks stable area, took a seat and surveyed some of the nearly 300 yearlings slated to sell in the 2016 July Sale. “I saw a horse from Mineola Farm that I liked and Billy saw me sitting over there, came over, sat down with me and said, ‘what are you doing?’” Nardiello said of the late Bill Graves, Fasig-Tipton’s muchloved and respected senior vice president. “I said, ‘you know me, I like to sit here and watch.’ I do that, I like to watch the horses hang out, see what they’re doing and how they’re handling everything. As Billy was wont to do, he told me, ‘that’s a good son of a gun there.’” Nardiello, who ended up buying that yearling colt by Street Boss for $110,000 on behalf of Bob Lothenbach’s Lothenbach Stables Inc., came shopping again in 2017.
BELL’S THE ONE sold at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton July Sale as Hip 128
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“She was a lovely filly and we were buying her from a consignor that raises racehorses at a sale that produces racehorses...It’s a good sale, not a frenetic sale...” - Drew Nardiello -
Nardiello said he also likes the size of the July Sale, which affords the opportunity to inspect each of the offerings as needed with input from those trainers.
(George “Maje” Odom), and when I worked for Carl Nafzger. He felt like every trainer likes a different kind of horse.”
“I know that trainers are always looking for excuses and if they had a piece in picking out that horse they have to own it,” Nardiello said. “If I buy the horse and it does no good it’s on my shoulders. If it does real good, the trainer doesn’t always say I picked it out but, that’s part of my job. This came back from working with my stepfather
“For me as a racing manager, it’s convenient that the trainers can get there, do their short list and go look at them. Let me do the cleanup work. There are some horses that I say, ‘I can’t buy that horse,’ but there are very few.”
BELL’S THE ONE, jockey Corey J. Lanerie, and connections celebrate her win in the 2020 Derby City Distaff S. (G1)
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resumé that includes training 2020 Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver and 2002 Belmont winner Sarava. And the approach remains the same from those days two decades ago. “It’s the same,” McPeek said. “That process that I used is a process of elimination. It’s a culling down. Going back through them over and over and over again sometimes. I use the same process today that I did when I bought that filly. I’ve evolved a little. Two years later Roy gave me $20,000, then he gave me a few dollars more, but I still approach it the same way.”
Trainer Ken McPeek
SOURCE OF SUCCESS McPeek follows similar routine at the July Sale and beyond to find winners. By Tom Law
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en McPeek went to his first yearling sale at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky in 1991 with a small budget and a realistic goal. “When I first started working yearling sales for Roy Monroe, the first horse I bought at auction as a young trainer was a horse named Warside,” McPeek said. “I bought her out of the fall sale. Roy and another guy gave me a $6,000 budget. I realized it wasn’t a whole lot but I said I was going to buy the best $6,000 horse I could buy.” McPeek stretched to $8,500 for the daughter of Lord At War, who became a stakes winner and nearly graded stakes-placed at 2, Grade 3-placed at 3, and the earner of more than $185,000. He’s shopped Fasig-Tipton’s sales since, finding the July Sale right in his wheelhouse and a place where he’s bought the likes of Take Charge Lady, Repent and Rosalind, just three of the Grade 1 winners on his growing
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McPeek goes with a significantly greater budget these days, well earned for someone widely respected as one of the best judges of potential and of value. “I also remember the early days of going there and getting outbid all the time,” said McPeek, who has won more than 1,750 races and earned more than $88 million in purses. “I’ve been working the Fasig sales all my career. I do have some really good memories of horses that we bought out of there. The July Sale is right up my alley. I typically buy more on conformation than I do on pedigree and FasigTipton, over the course of time, has done an excellent job of bringing a lot of good physical horses to the July Sale. Their strike rate, the percentage of stakes winners in that auction, has been phenomenal. “It’s early in the season, too. I’m not a big 2-year-old in training guy. I’d rather buy the young yearling and let him play out under our system, which has been pretty consistent for a long time. I like to take our time with them once we get them, then we break them and go from there.”
“ A lot of my clients seem to be
prepared for July, they’re ready for July. We are typically pretty aggressive because of that.” - Ken McPeek -
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SELECTED YEARLINGS
For a Century... America’s Most Prestigious Yearling Sale! A ugust 9-10, 2021
Saratoga S prings , NY
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aratoga Springs, New York has been a part of the Thoroughbred industry landscape over the past century, and Fasig-Tipton has been an indelible part of Saratoga Springs over the same span of time. High on both quality runners and dramatic prices, the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale enters its 100th edition in 2021 firmly entrenched as a must-circle event on the calendar for anyone looking to be at the top of the business. This year’s centennial celebration is particularly special as the COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 Saratoga Sale to be cancelled for the first time since World War II. Over the years, countless champions, international stars, and breed shapers were first found at Saratoga, including the likes of Bull Lea, Natalma, Raise a Native, Hoist the Flag, and Sky Beauty. More recently, Horses of the Year Black Tie Affair and Saint Liam, along with champions Vindication, Stellar Wind, Songbird, and Tepin, have carried the banner for Saratoga. Buyers looking to make noise during the Triple Crown have found eight Kentucky Derby winners at Saratoga, and most recently, Saratoga graduates claimed four of six Belmont Stakes held from 2012-2017 — Union Rags, Tonalist, American Pharoah, and Tapwrit. The Saratoga sale secured its greatest on-track accolade after future Triple Crown winner American Pharoah’s trip through the Humphrey S. Finney pavilion in 2013. The colt became just the second Triple Crown winner sold at public auction, and he finished the season with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Horse of the Year honors. Saratoga is annually ranked the leading North American yearling sale by percentage of Grade 1 winners sold. That standard of excellence looks to continue on, as many of the sport’s leading stars in 2020 are Saratoga graduates. These include G1 winners Honor A. P., Rushing Fall, and Valiance...and 2YO GSWs Thoughtfully and Travel Column. Top-level quality has been a hallmark of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale for the past 99 editions. In 2021, being a part of the 100th Saratoga sale is just the start of the history you could make buying and selling there.
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THE AUGUST PLACE TO BE! EXPERIENCE THE EXCITEMENT, TRADITION, & PRESTIGE OF “THE SPA” The crown jewel of the North American sales calendar is the Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale, which annually offers the very best of the North American yearling crop. Held during the prestigious Saratoga race meet, the sale produces top prices year after year. The world’s leading buyers come to Saratoga in search of racing’s next superstars.
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The Saratoga Sale experience is one of the most unique in the Thoroughbred world, offering a rich racing and social scene. Yearling sellers enjoy world class hospitality at the Fasig-Tipton Festival of Racing and annual Saratoga Sale cocktail party, as well as first-class dining and nightlife. The 100th Saratoga Sale in 2021 is an event not to be missed!
S A L E S TAT S F R O M PA S T 5 Y E A R S YEARLINGS SOLD FOR AS MUCH AS
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$411,459
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RECORD RESULTS IN 2019! 3RD HIGHEST GROSS IN SALE HISTORY AVERAGE UP 11% - HIGHEST IN SALE HISTORY MEDIAN UP 17% - HIGHEST IN SALE HISTORY
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2019 CO-SALE TOPPER
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Colt by Curlin o/o Wapi (CHI)
Consignor: Denali Stud, Agent Buyer: Aquis Farm AUS / Let’s Go Stable / Crawford Farm Racing
2019 CO-SALE TOPPER
HIP 174
Colt by Curlin o/o America
Consignor: Stone Farm, Agent Buyer: West Point, Woodford, Siena, Valdes, Singleton, Sandbrook, Freeman
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“Fasig was interested in a couple that year, they came to see the horse and kept coming back to see the horse, ‘Yes, you’re on the right track, this is the horse for Saratoga.’ That was a great help for us,” Buffolo said. “They saw the horse before we entered, they came back, ‘Yes, you’re right. Yes, you’re right.’ Their experience is so very valuable when they come see the horse and say, ‘Yes, we like the horse, the horse should do well.’ ” Oh, so well. Don Alberto Farm’s Liliana Solari & son Carlos Heller Solari
STAMP THE TICKET Co-2019 Saratoga Sale topper showed signs of promise from the start. By Sean Clancy
“This is a Saratoga horse.”
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t was said often and by everyone about a chestnut son of Curlin out of Wapi, bred by Don Alberto Corporation and Three Chimneys Farm. Don Alberto’s Fabricio Buffolo remembers thinking it when the colt was born in March 2018, just a casual, pie-in-the-sky comment about a well-balanced colt by a champion out of a Group 1-winning daughter of Scat Daddy. He remembers hearing Austin Kanatzer, the colt’s groom, saying it as he led the stoic colt from the paddock to the stall. Scott Warner, the yearling manager, sure, he said it when evaluations were offered and asked. Three Chimneys’ Chris Baker, yup, every time he came to inspect the 2018 crop. And Fasig-Tipton’s crew, Boyd Browning Jr., Bayne Welker, Reed Ringler, especially, Welker, yeah, every time.
Consigned by Denali Stud, Hip 153 enticed a final bid of $1.5 million from Aquis Farm Aus, Let’s Go Stable and Crawford Farm to become the co-sales topper at the 2019 Saratoga Sale. For Buffolo, standing between the office and the back-walking ring, it was excitement, sure, but more about satisfaction. “We always thought he was a nice colt. When he was born, he was very balanced, a nice horse and he kept going. He’s always been straightforward, never had any issues, we always thought he could be a candidate for Saratoga,” Buffolo said. “It’s exciting, but it’s more rewarding. It’s important for the owners but it’s also really important to the people on the farm. The people who are there with these horses every day.” Buffolo’s phone blew up with texts from Kanatzer, Warner and others who had been along for the ride from farm inspections to sale-topping. Pride has many veins. “They follow him. Austin texted me right after the sale, like, ‘Oh wow.’ That’s rewarding and it’s good for morale for the farm. It’s the same thing as having a graded winner on the track,” Buffolo said. “It’s a testament that the people on the farm are doing a good job, that everything’s going well, that we’re doing the right things. It’s exciting. It’s rewarding. Especially at Saratoga. Everything needs to line up. When it does…” You’re a sales topper at Saratoga.
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AM ER I CA’S # 1 SA L E RANKED #1 AMONG MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN YEARLING SALES BY R AT E O F R E T U R N O N S T U D F E E I N 2 0 19 !
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SOL D T HEIR HIGHES T- PRICED OR CO - HIGHES T- PRICED Y E A RL ING COLT OR FIL LY OF 2019 AT T HE FASIG -TIP TON SA R ATOGA SA L E!
TOP 15 Y E A RLINGS PURCH ASED BY
1 4 DIFFERENT ENTITIES • Aquis Farm AUS / Let’s Go Stable / Crawford Farm Racing • Claiborne Farm, Agent • Donato Lanni, Agent for Baoma Corp. • Donato Lanni, Agent for Heider Family Stables • Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
• M.V. Magnier • OXO Equine LLC • Steven W. Young, Agent • Team Casse, Agent • West Point Thoroughbreds, L.E.B., Agent
• Kenneth McPeek, Agent for Fern Circle
• West Pt., Woodford, Siena, Valdes, Singleton, Sandbrook, Freeman
• Kerri Radcliffe, Agent
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Celebrity chef Bobby Flay
TOP OF THE POPS Celebrity chef Bobby Flay soaks in Saratoga scene and eyes more success in 2021. By Sean Clancy
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ho was it? Maybe your father, saving up his vacation days for a trip to the track, still searching for that life-changing trifecta, the one on a long, thin ticket, a hue of pink, almost purple, holes punched and ink stamped. Perhaps, your grandmother, the two-dollars-to-place-on-the-five-inevery-race bettor. Or an uncle, a cabin on the lake, a piece of a horse, trained by a friend. Or maybe an old college buddy who knew a place where the beer was cold and the action fast. For Bobby Flay, it was his grandfather. At 14, or maybe younger, Flay knew this was the place. And he knows his story is everybody’s story. 24 // fasigtipton.com
“That’s a story lots of people can tell, ‘How did you get introduced to Saratoga?’ ‘Well, my father, my grandfather, somebody took me…’” Flay said. “You have no shot at not being addicted to it at that point, because we all know there is some serious magic in that air, it just becomes part of you.” Back when the horses saddled under the trees, in the open air, not a railing, a fence to separate fans and their favorites, back when they sold clams on the half shell, when Jerkens and Cordero ruled the place, when Virginia-bred yearlings buoyed three nights of black-tie yearling sales down the street on East. Flay was hooked, making the jaunt from New York to Saratoga each summer, every summer. Owning horses? Breeding horses? Selling horses at Saratoga? Come on, nobody thinks that big. “I had no idea. Not until I had a little success in business did I think about owning horses,” Flay said. “There is nothing like it, really.”
And there was nothing like the night at Fasig-Tipton in 2019 when a sweet-moving, free-walking son of Curlin joined another son of Curlin, 21 hips earlier, as sales toppers on another mercurial night of action and atmosphere.
“The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale is the date that I have on my schedule every year, bar none. It’s the epitome of enjoyment when it comes to the horse business.” - Bobby Flay -
“You’re in Saratoga Springs. It’s the first or second week of August. You’re surrounded by people from all over the world,” Flay said. “Everybody is dressed up in their best party clothes. And they’re selling horses for millions of dollars.” One. Point. Five. Million. Out of Flay’s Grade 3 stakes winner, America, the chestnut colt, consigned by Stone Farm, had it all. Flay knew it before the sale and certainly knew it on the days leading to the sale, when the colt showed off like LeBron in Game 7 and every friend, client and cohort of Flay’s asked if he would stay in for a piece.
Which he did, when the hammer dropped to West Point Thoroughbreds, Woodford, Siena, Valdes, Singleton, Sandbrook and Freeman. “I’m game. I’m game to gamble in this business, that’s for sure. As they say, all the right buyers. I knew that he was going to sell well, it was just a matter of how much,” Flay said. “Listen, he’s by Curlin, he’s out a Grade 3 A.P. Indy mare with a huge pedigree. The Rags to Riches family or the Better Than Honour family.” Yes, the page dripped with game changers and the colt backed it up with a walk, a look, a presence, a spotless vet report. Tick all the boxes? He drew the boxes. “There is not much more fun to be had,” Flay said. “To be a part of it, just to have a horse entered in it is an accomplishment in its own right, they pick and choose the physicals and the pedigrees because there’s only a few hundred horses that are going to be sold there, out of the thousands of yearlings that year. To be able to top the sale, it was electric.” Watching from the fourth row with his pedigree scion, Barry Weisbord, his bloodstock agent, James Delahooke, and his daughter, Sophie, Flay reveled in the action as bids rolled past in hundred-thousanddollar cannonballs while enjoying the satisfaction of raising a third-generation star. “It was one of those nights that was a perfect storm,” Flay said. “That’s my Super Bowl.”
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Bob Edwards, family, and jockey Javier Castellano celebrate RUSHING FALL’s win in the 2019 Just a Game S. (G1)
GOLD RUSH Saratoga grad and Grade 1 winner Rushing Fall comes full circle for Bob Edwards. By Sean Clancy
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ometimes the stars align. Occasionally,the bottle catches the lightning. And every once in while everything comes full circle. For Bob Edwards, it’s happened once. This is how it’s meant to work. Buy a yearling filly for $320,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Bang out $2.8 million, winning Grade 1 stakes from the 26 // fasigtipton.com
Breeders’ Cup to Saratoga. Sell the filly, now a mare, to a world-wide empire for $5.5 million at the FasigTipton November Sale. Four years. Eleven wins. Twenty-six times the return. Ahmes never drew a circle like Rushing Fall. “I suspect she’s a once-in-a-lifetime horse,” Edwards said. On a trip to his wife Kristine’s hometown of Saratoga Springs for a wedding in 2015, Edwards was introduced to the backstretch of Saratoga by a business partner. A longtime disciple, Edwards had never seen this side of the track. Where have you been all my life? He was a cooler full of beer in the backyard, play the horses, hit the town kind of guy. But this, this was something different.
“When the sales week starts, there’s nothing like it.” - Bob Edwards “I’ve got a baseball hat, ripped-up shorts, I’ve got my 18-year-old daughter with me, I didn’t look like I belonged anywhere,” Edwards said. “I get introduced to Niall Brennan, who introduces me to Mike Ryan. He took me under his wing, he walked me and my daughter around for five hours, showing me horses, explaining conformation, just being a nice guy, he had no idea that I was going to do anything.” Oh, Edwards was about to do something. Ryan called him about a New York-bred filly selling on the night of the wedding. “I ducked out of a wedding, took the call, we bid on the horse,” Edwards said. “She was slow. Ended up getting claimed. And that was it.” When Edwards says, “that was it,” he means that was it, like, he was hooked for life. His stable, e Five Racing Thoroughbreds (named for his wife and three kids) earned over $1 million in its first year, 2016, and has topped that mark each season since. Edwards and his family are regulars at the Saratoga Sale, in part because he owns a house in the neighborhood, but more because of the scene and relationships. “I had met Anna and Max [of Fasig-Tipton] in Saratoga, they took me under their wing, introducing me to people, they had nothing to gain from me at that point, just super friendly ambassadors of the sport,” Edwards said. “They helped me meet people, understand how things work and kind of guided me along. They’ve been a big influence in helping us understand the ropes of racing. We built a really good relationship.
“Saratoga for us, it was always a fun spot, we went to school in Plattsburgh, on our way home, we’d stop in and see friends. Now we have this huge, extended family, the trainers, the jockeys, my daughter is dating Tyler Gaffalione, our house on Fifth Avenue is kind of like a gathering spot. At any given time, we have a house full of people, the jocks are coming by, the trainers are coming by and my wife’s family. It’s all connected. It’s special. We look forward to getting up there every year.” Halfway through that first season, Edwards bought a bay filly by More Than Ready and the Rushing Fall saga had begun. “I knew very little about stallions, very little about pedigrees but I knew that More Than Ready threw me my first winner and it happened to be a stakes race,” Edwards said of Intercontinental winner Zindaya. “I wanted to make sure we had one on the roster.”
RUSHING FALL as a yearling at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale
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Like putting Megan Rapinoe on the roster.
“That was a really good weekend,” Edwards said.
“She was a looker. Her presence. She was a gorgeous horse. Everything about her turned your head. There was nothing to fault her on,” Edwards said. “She won three races in 60 days, three wins, three different tracks. It was an unbelievable feeling.”
Rushing Fall added five more Grade 1 stakes wins to her war chest, finishing her career with a hardfought neck loss in the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. The next day, she earned a final bid of $5.5 million from Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier.
Trained by Chad Brown, Rushing Fall capped her 2-year-old season with an onrushing rally to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar.
“It was an unbelievable night. Indian Creek and Fasig did a phenomenal job setting the stage, we had a tent, we had all her wins on posters on the barns. They had a photographer there, we got really nice photos with her and the family,” Edwards said. “It was a really nice, bittersweet experience, I was sad to see her go, but really happy she went to Coolmore. It set up really well for her and really well for us. She pays for racing for us for a few years now.”
“We had great seats, but we were up really high. Super excited. A great feeling,” Edwards said. “It took us 20 minutes to get down. She was walking circles, still keyed up after the race. We took the picture and Chad grabs me and says, ‘Don’t go back upstairs for Good Magic.’” A day later, e Five’s Good Magic took the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
RUSHING FALL selling for $5.5 million at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale
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Just part of the circle.
RUSHING FALL leads the field in the 2019 Just a Game S. (G1)
and to continue that, it’s landmark to say the least. It will be huge this summer. There’s nothing like it. It’s the one and only, not only because of the age of the sales company, but the tradition of going there, well, Man o’ War. What more can I say?” Collier: “In terms of American institutions, it is quite remarkable that any business venture should last a century, especially, one as tricky as the horse business. It’s a milestone to be celebrated. Over a century of history, with constant changing over the decades, Saratoga has thrived as one of the most successful Thoroughbred boutique markets in the world.”
Describe your first time to Saratoga. Dance: “It was in the old pavilion. 1966. It was the Bieber-Jacobs dispersal and the Lord Astor horses that Bill Hackman bought. Somebody who was there for the yearling sale couldn’t stay for these dispersals, so I went up.”
Fasig-Tipton announcer Terence Collier
TALKIN’ SARATOGA Saratoga interview with Steve Dance and Terence Collier. By Sean Clancy
Nobody knows Saratoga better than Fasig-Tipton icons Steve Dance and Terence Collier. As the venerable sales company prepares for its 100th Saratoga Sale, the longtime auctioneer and bid spotter and the retired announcer reminisced about the sport’s greatest venue with The Saratoga Special’s Sean Clancy.
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Collier: “I joined Fasig-Tipton in the winter of ’76, my first time with them was August 1977. It was literally the organ that kept Fasig-Tipton alive. It was nirvana. My colleagues in the office were Ric Waldman and Michael Taylor. We were the three young bloods. John Finney and Larry Ensor were at the zenith, in age, power and position in the horse business. To see all those incredible farms and consignors, to know what they had done at Saratoga and for Saratoga, to actually meet them in that environment, it was beyond description for a young guy that was beginning to make his way in the horse business.”
Did you recognize the magic of Saratoga immediately? Dance: “I was very green and was putting on a tuxedo and standing in front of a lot of wealthy and influential people who were doing things that I had never even dreamed of, it was a heady experience for me. To be in that arena…I was just a farm kid.”
“It was just magic. Just magic.” - Steve Dance Upon attending his first Saratoga Sale in 1966
Collier: “I can’t remember the first year because every year that I got up in the stand, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck and you realize that this is the one you cannot screw up. The eyes of the world are on you, it’s so important to everybody and you’ve got to be pretty much pitch perfect and go. It was a heavy burden to get up there because it is so important to people.”
Why does Saratoga work? Collier: “If you’re aspiring to be anything in the Thoroughbred business, anybody from a bloodstock agent, a tire kicker, a groom that’s going up there for the first time, a trainer who’s having his first runners…you are in Saratoga for those 10 days around the sales. When they all go to Siro’s that first night, it is like throwing jet fuel on an open fire.”
What was Saratoga like back then? Dance: “Going to lunch every day at Mother Goldsmith’s. The Mereworth barn. Barn 7 was all Mereworth. They owned that barn. Ultimately, the company bought it and John Finney redid it. I remember Laddie (Dance) and Jinny outbidding E.P. Taylor for Twice Cited at $77,500. She was a foundation mare for their breeding. She was by Double Jay out of Oak Cluster. Building the new pavilion. Starting the polo, we sponsored the polo. The carriage crowd, Frolic Weymouth and all that crew. The parties. An Evening in Old Saratoga, we opened an old casino out by the lake that had been shuttered for years and had a huge party there. Back in those days, everybody had their nights. Thursday night was Virginia night, so you had Nydrie, Pine Brook, Morven, all those old great farms. It was four nights, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning we had a racehorse sale. Saratoga was a special, special time. Still is.”
“That feeling, that 10-day period around the Saratoga sales, is the biggest magnet I have ever known for the Thoroughbred industry.” - Terence Collier -
“Let’s say you stay out late, you have a few hours sleep, you get up in the morning early and you go over to Oklahoma, it’s a beautiful Saratoga morning and you’re walking down that path and you see a horse, a groom, a rider and a pony. You look over and you’re standing there alone and maybe that year’s Kentucky Derby winner walks by you. For a golfer, a golf fan, it’s like going to Augusta and getting to the 15th green and you are the only one there when Tiger Woods is putting and he looks over and says to you, ‘Are you having a good day?’ For every fan of every sport, they cannot get closer to the root of their devotion than they are when they are at Saratoga.”
Describe your bosses, your teammates over the years. Dance: “I worked mostly under Larry Ensor. I remember one time he called from the Belmont paddock sale. I was in my office and he said, ‘Why aren’t you here?’ I said, ‘You didn’t tell me to come.’ He said, ‘Let me tell you something. You come to every sale unless I tell you don’t come.’ Yes sir. Yes sir. I did the seating for a long time, with Larry Ensor. I would do it and he would look it over. Continued... Fasig-Tipton auctioneer and bid spotter Steve Dance
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One day he came to me and said, ‘What the hell is wrong with you?’ I said, ‘What’s a matter?’ He said, ‘You can’t put those two together.’ I said, ‘They’ve always been together.’ He said, ‘He just fired him.’ I said, ‘How the hell would I know that?’ It was upstairs in the balcony and we had to rearrange everything.”
Why has Fasig-Tipton been successful, why have they been able to ride the ups and downs of the industry? Dance: “It’s all customer service and relationships. When Tommy Heard closed up the training center, we sold everything at Hialeah, including his sixhorse Imperatore horse van. I worked there for a day and a half organizing and setting this stuff up with Alan Cooper. Alan Cooper was an intern at Fasig-Tipton. It’s about the people, the people you can work with, that’s a big part of it. Trust. And John Finney had a great vision.” Collier: “I have to attribute the vision of John Finney and the determination and work ethic of Boyd Browning. They had very different talents. Boyd has guided the company extremely well during his tenure and John was a visionary. He was always one step ahead of the game. When the Tartan dispersal was announced, it wasn’t announced where it would be. John was on an airplane first thing, to see, not John Nerud, but the executors of the estate and make a presentation to them. John was the visionary and Boyd has inherited a lot of the success of Fasig-Tipton, but it has been his work ethic and determination that have steered it through these tricky times.”
Who is your most memorable horse to sell at Saratoga? Dance: “Hoist the Flag. Sidney (Watters) was sitting right in front of me. Sidney and Mr. and Mrs. Clark. If you were sitting in the auction box, my position was at 1 o’clock. On my right-hand side was Dinny Phipps. On the left, Mr. and Mrs. Mills. In the front row, was of course, Liz Whitney Tippett, she was always too cold, ‘Turn that air conditioner down.’ It was terrible, it blew right straight down
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on you in the front row. The Ledyards up in the back row. Bert Firestone. I took Sidney’s bid. It was $37,000, that’s what Hoist the Flag cost at Saratoga. Hoist the Flag.” Collier: “Oh, there have been so many, American Pharoah, of course. I do remember the first time I bought back a horse for a million dollars. It was a filly for Peggy Augustus. I knew she would be at Siro’s at her usual table, I walked in and I was about to say I was sorry. She said, ‘Don’t say it. Don’t say it.’ I said, ‘OK, I won’t say it. What are you going to say?’ She said, ‘If they don’t think that filly is worth a million dollars then they don’t deserve her and I’m going to race her.’ ”
Do you miss it? Collier: “I miss it terribly, but my motivation for making a change in my lifestyle had nothing to do with any dissatisfaction with my job or Fasig-Tipton. A, I wanted to leave at the top. B, I saw two of my closest friends, Dennis Lynch and Bill Graves, pass away well before their time and robbed of any enjoyment that they deserved. Lastly, and probably the most compelling reason, we had a group of young people that needed some space, they needed some of the old guys at the top to get out of the way and this was the right time to do it. I miss it and I make a conscious effort not to go kick tires and get in people’s way at the sale, but I can promise you when Saratoga opens up hopefully in 2021, I’ll be up there in my house with my friends, walking around Oklahoma in the morning and trying to find the hottest spot.”
Any advice to your successors? Collier: “You have to preserve it. This next generation, I won’t say it’s a duty, I hope they see it as a pleasure to preserve it. I would challenge anybody to contradict me, that 10-day period is the finest period of anybody’s life in the Thoroughbred world, whether they come from Australia, France, Ireland, England, wherever they breed and sell Thoroughbreds. There is nothing more energetic and dynamic than Saratoga.”
Auctioneer and bid spotter Steve Dance at the 1967 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale
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THE SECOND STOP ON THE SARATOGA SALES CALENDAR! The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale is the industry’s number one source of quality New York-Breds. The sale is targeted by leading New York and national connections to take advantage of the $60+ million distributed annually in purse money, incentives, and awards for NY-Breds. The sale has produced a new record sale topper four years in a row.
Yearlings are in high-demand from start to finish, and as the quality of the NY-Bred program has continued to improve, so have the results on the race track. Top sale graduates in 2020 include Grade 1 Belmont S. and Grade 1 Travers S. winner Tiz the Law, Grade 1 Starlet S. winner Varda, and Grade 2 Remsen S. winner Brooklyn Strong.
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2019 SALE TOPPER
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HIP 592
Filly by Malibu Moon o/o Savvy Sassy
Consignor: Winter Quarter Farm, Agent for Oak Bluff Stable Buyer: OXO Equine
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OXO Equine’s Larry Best went to $775,000 for Hip 592 at the 2019 New York-Bred Sale for a daughter of Malibu Moon out of the Street Sense mare Savvy Sassy. Co-bred by Leahy’s Oak Bluff Stable LLC and trainer Christophe Clement, the filly was raised at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains, NY, and consigned for Oak Bluff by Winter Quarter Farm. “We were very pleased,” said Leahy, the founding principal of Episteme Capital in Rye Brook, NY. “We thought she would go for $400,000 to $500,000. She was a gorgeous filly from her early days.”
Trainer Christophe Clement, co-breeder of BRATTLE HOUSE
RARE EXCEPTION Co-breeders Leahy and Clement rewarded for decision to sell Brattle House. By Paul Halloran
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reeder Richard Leahy typically sells his colts and keeps his fillies. There are exceptions, and one of them became the highest-priced yearling ever sold at the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale.
Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale graduate & multiple stakes placed Bourbon Bay
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Clement trained Savvy Sassy for Waterville Lake Stable, a partnership that includes Leahy, and he always liked the mare, an Ontario-bred who won her first two starts then lost four straight. “I always thought she was a very good looking filly,” Clement said, “and I didn’t think she had the career she deserved. That’s the reason we decided to stay involved with her as a broodmare.” When Waterville Lake looked to sell Savvy Sassy in 2016, Leahy and Clement placed the winning bid of $80,000 and bred her to Bayern the following year. Bourbon Bay sold for $205,000 at the 2018 New York-Bred Sale and the colt has been off the board only twice in nine starts. In 2017, Oak Bluff bred Savvy Sassy to Malibu Moon, resulting in the future record-breaker, though Leahy and Clement would have shed no tears if the filly ended up as a high-priced RNA.
Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale graduate & graded stakes placed THERAPIST
“We would have been very happy to keep her and race her,” Clement said. “We put an aggressive (reserve) on her. We loved the filly.”
The New York-Bred Sale has been good to Oak Bluff, and Leahy likes to think it’s a positive relationship for both sides.
Clement was so high on the filly that he asked Best if he could train her and the owner agreed. Brattle House made her debut Nov. 22 at Aqueduct and won a New York-Bred maiden special weight by more than 5 lengths.
“We have had very good luck and hopefully we have provided some of the better yearlings for the sale,” said Leahy, whose homebred Therapist graduated from the 2016 New York-Bred Sale and has gone on to earn almost $660,000.
“Knowing I am the breeder and I still own the mare, I thought the filly might mean more to me,” Clement said. “She’s a pleasure to train, very classy and very good looking.”
“It has been an important sale for trainers looking for a nice New York-Bred. As a buyer and a seller, I’m really looking forward to the 2021 sale.” - Christophe Clement -
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TIZ THE LAW, purchased at Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale, wins the 2020 Belmont S. (G1)
SECOND STRIKE Sackatoga, Tagg scoop another horse of a lifetime in Tiz the Law at New York-Bred Sale. By Paul Halloran
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he bidding for Hip 311 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale reached six figures and Jack Knowlton needed to be prodded to raise his hand one more time. “A couple of partners were egging me on,” said Knowlton, whose trainer, Barclay Tagg, was also hoping the founder and head of Sackatoga Stable would be willing to go over budget for the goodlooking son of first-crop sire Constitution out of the Tiznow mare Tizfiz. “We went again and that may well have been our last bid,” Knowlton said of placing the winning $110,000 bid for the colt who would be named Tiz the Law.
Score one for spending. Twin Creeks Farm bred the colt, who was consigned by Sequel New York. The $110,000 turned out to be a steal, as Tiz the Law has won four Grade 1s – Champagne, Florida Derby, Belmont, Travers – and finished second in the Kentucky Derby, compiling more than $2.7 million in earnings through his 3-year-old campaign. Knowlton said hitting a grand slam with a horse like Tiz the Law is obviously satisfying, but Sackatoga goes into the New York-Bred Sale looking for singles and doubles.
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will compete in New York-Bred stakes and run at Belmont and Saratoga... Fortunately, we’ve cashed in a few times.” - Jack Knowlton -
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Tiz the Law was the second lightning strike for Knowlton’s group. At the 2001 New York-Bred Sale, Tagg considered, but ultimately passed on a colt by first-crop sire Distorted Humor out of the Slewacide mare Belles Good Cide. Tony Everard paid $22,000 for the horse bred by WinStar Farm and consigned by McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds. Three months later, Tagg was at Everard’s Ocala farm, where he sends his horses to be broken, when a horse breezing down the stretch caught his eye. “It was about the most impressive thing I had ever seen,” Tagg said. “Everybody thought I was crazy.” Tagg urged Knowlton to buy the gelding, which he did in March 2002 for $75,000. Funny Cide would make many others feel like Tagg did the day he saw him on the farm, winning the first two jewels of the Triple Crown in 2003 and thrusting the school-busriding Sackatoga clan into the national spotlight.
“When you look at all the New York-Bred horses, it’s hard to argue we don’t have two at the top of the list,” said Knowlton, who placed the winning $300,000 bid for a colt by Tiznow out of the Gilded Time mare Eternal Grace in the New York-Bred portion of the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Showcase, which filled the void of the postponed Saratoga sales due to the pandemic. “Fasig-Tipton did the best they could for the New York-Breds, giving them their day in Kentucky,” said Knowlton. “We went there and swung hard. That’s because of the good fortune we had with Tiz.” And the willingness to raise that hand one more time.
With more than $3.5 million in earnings, he ranks second all-time among New York-Breds, behind Mind Your Biscuits, another New York-Bred Sale graduate who banked almost $4.3 million, thanks in part to back-to-back wins in the Dubai Golden Shaheen.
TIZ THE LAW wins the 2020 Travers S. (G1)
Jack Knowlton and Ed Mitzen celebrate with partners and friends as the TIZ THE LAW won the 152nd Belmont S.
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Bill Parcells and jockey Kendrick Carmouche celebrate the win of HIT IT ONCE MORE in the Albany S.
GRIDIRON GREAT Hall of Fame football coach Bill Parcells makes annual stop at New York-Bred Sale. By Paul Halloran
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ill Parcells bought his first horse, Nickel Defense, in 1992 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-Bred Preferred Yearling Sale. Almost three decades later, the prospect of placing the winning bid for his next stakes winner still gives him lockerroom-type adrenaline. Parcells, who races in the name of his August Dawn Farm, has had his share of success at the New YorkBred Sale.
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He bought Saratoga Snacks for $60,000 in 2010, and the son of Tale of the Cat colt won multiple New York-Bred stakes, ran in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile in 2013 and earned almost $700,000 in a 24-race career. Bavaro, named for the tight end who Parcells’ New York Giants win two Super sold for $85,000 in 2015. The Freud colt $344,785 and was a winner of nine including two stakes.
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Parcells, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2013, has had a 50-yard-line seat for the exponential growth of the Fasig-Tipton New YorkBred Sale. In 1992, there were 50 yearlings sold for a total of $990,500, with an average of $19,810 and a median of $17,000. In 2019, the gavel came down 186 times with sales totaling $16.2 million for an average price of $87,097 and a $60,000 median.
“ I live in Saratoga five months a year and I really enjoy going to the sale...If I see one I like and I can get him, I get him. I really enjoy the whole process.” - Bill Parcells “When people see the demonstrated ability that has come out of that sale, they want to get one of those horses,” Parcells said. “They want to run in good races. That’s why I do it.”
“It’s like drafting football players,” he said. “Some of them are big and fast, but they can’t play. Others are small and not so fast, but they can really play.”
Parcells has broadened his scope, also shopping at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale. He bought three (by Cairo Prince, Malibu Moon and Shackleford) at the 2020 sale, which was delayed and relocated to Kentucky due to the pandemic. He also bought his first Breeders’ Cup horse – while he was sleeping – at the 2017 Saratoga Sale. With the help of good friend and advisor Robbie Medina, a former longtime assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey, Parcells had picked out five horses, with a ceiling from $175,000 to $215,000. After the first three sold for $600,000, $400,000 and $700,000, Parcells called it a night, figuring there was no chance he was going to get either of the Uncle Mo progeny left on his list. “I went home to bed,” said Parcells, whose prowess as a raconteur rivals his coaching. “I wake up and there’s a message on my phone: ‘Go see your horses.’ I called Robbie and said, ‘What horses?’ Then I asked him how much he spent. He just kept telling me I was really going to like them.” In his slumber, Parcells spent $225,000 for the horse on which he was willing to spend $175,000. He named that one Fifty Over. He also paid $180,000 for the horse on which he was willing to spend $220,000. That colt, named Forty Under, won the Grade 3 Pilgrim and ran in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.
FORTY UNDER, purchased by Bill Parcells’ August Dawn Farm at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Sale
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