Offering New York’s Finest! A ugust 15-16, 2021
Saratoga S prings , NY
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.
S A L E S TAT S F R O M PA S T 5 Y E A R S YEARLINGS SOLD FOR A S MUCH A S
$775,000
AV E R A G E A S H I G H A S
$107,512
MEDIAN AS HIGH AS
$76,000
74 YE ARLINGS SOLD FOR $100,000+ IN A SINGLE SALE
R A N K E D # 2 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 R E T U R N O N S T U D FE E I N 2019 !
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2019 SALE TOPPER
NEW SALES RECORD!
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.
“ We’re looking for horses who
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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