July Sale

SELECTED YEARLINGS

First Yearling Sale of the Year Produces

First-Rate Results!

J uly 13-14, 2021

L exington , KY

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.

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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.

“ When I send horses to the July

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

AV E R AG E A S H I G H A S

MEDIAN AS HIGH AS

$1,000,000

$100,829

$77,000

77 YEARLINGS SOLD FOR $100,000+ IN A SINGLE SALE

R A N K ED # 3 A M O N G M A J O R N O R T H A M ERI CA N Y E A RL I N G SA L E S

BY R AT E O F RE T U RN O N S T U D F EE IN 20 19!

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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2021 SALES DATES Kentucky Winter Mixed The Gulfstream Sale

February 8-9 March 31

(Under Tack Show: March 29)

Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training

May 17-18

(Under Tack Show: May 11-13)

Santa Anita Two-Year-Olds in Training

June 23

(Under Tack Show: June 21)

July Selected Horses of Racing Age

July 12

The July Sale

July 13 - 14

The Saratoga Sale

August 9-10

New York Bred Yearlings

August 15-16

California Fall Yearlings

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Midlantic Fall Yearlings

October 4-5

The Saratoga Fall Sale

October 18

Kentucky October Yearlings

October 25-28

The November Sale

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Midlantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age

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