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SELECTED YEARLINGS

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America’s Most Prestigious Yearling Sale!

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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 A S MUCH A S

$2,000,000

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

$411,459

MEDIAN AS HIGH AS

$350,000

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RECORD RESULTS IN 2019!

3RD HIGHEST GROSS IN SALE HISTORY AVER AGE 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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• 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.

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“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.”

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“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.”

As for Fasig-Tipton’s 100th sale at Saratoga in 2021, Flay has one simple plan.

“Try to repeat what we did,” Flay said.

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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 11 // 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.

Reflect on the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Saratoga Sale.

Dance (who swears he hasn’t been to all of them): “It’s a landmark accomplishment. No other horse sales company can say that. To have gone back to the center of the highest quality racing ever 15 // fasigtipton.com

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

“It was just magic. Just magic.”

- Steve Dance Upon attending his first Saratoga Sale in 1966

for me. To be in that arena…I was just a farm kid.”

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.”

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.”

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

“That feeling, that 10-day period around the Saratoga sales, is the biggest magnet I have ever known for the Thoroughbred industry.”

- Terence Collier -

around the sales. When they all go to Siro’s that first night, it is like throwing jet fuel on an open fire.”

“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.

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Fasig-Tipton auctioneer and bid spotter Steve Dance

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Yes sir. I did the seating for a long time, with Larry Ensor. I would do it and he would look it over.

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,

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she was always too cold, ‘Turn that air conditioner down.’ It was terrible, it blew right straight down 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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