2020 Yearling Sales Guide - Saratoga

SELECTED YEARLINGS

For a Century...

America’s Most Prestigious Yearling Sale!

August 10-11, 2020

Saratoga Springs, NY

Celebrating the 100th Annual Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale A historic sale with a rich racing and social scene, highlighted by the Fasig-Tipton Festival of Racing.

2019 SALE TOPPERS

$1,500,000 100 YEARS OF SARATOGA GOLD!

S

aratoga Springs, New York has been an indelible 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 2020 firmly entrenched as a must-circle event on the calendar for anyone looking to be at the top of the business.

Fasig-Tipton established an upstate New York base in the early part of the 20th century and made an immediate impact, offering the mighty Man O’ War as a yearling in 1918. From that point on – with a brief hiatus due to World War II – the path to racing’s biggest prizes has gone through the Saratoga sale.

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 two-year-olds in 2019 are Saratoga graduates. These include Breeders’ Cup champions Sharing and Four Wheel Drive, as well as Grade 1 winners and graded stakes winners Bast, Dennis’ Moment, and Perfect Alibi.

Top-level quality has been a hallmark of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale for the past 99 editions. In 2020, being a part of the 100th Saratoga sale is just the start of the history you could make buying and selling there.

HIP 153

Colt by Curlin o/o Wapi (CHI)

Consignor: Denali Stud, Agent Buyer: Aquis Farm AUS / Let’s Go Stable / Crawford Farm Racing

2019 SALE FIGURES

$55,547,000 SALE GROSS

$411,459

$350,000

S A L E AV E R AG E

SALE MEDIAN

2019 SALE TOPPERS

$1,500,000

HIP 174

Colt by Curlin o/o America

Consignor: Stone Farm, Agent Buyer: West Point, Woodford, Siena, Valdes, Singleton, Sandbrook, Freeman

R E C O R D R E S U LT S !

3RD HIGHEST GROSS IN SALE HISTORY AVERAGE UP 11% - HIGHEST IN SALE HISTORY MEDIAN UP 17% - HIGHEST IN SALE HISTORY

A MERI CA’S #1 SAL 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

110% S A R AT O G A S A L E

VS

9 4% K E E N E L A N D S E P T. BOOK 1

CREAM OF THE CROP

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SOL D T HEIR HIGHES T- PRICED OR CO - HIGHES T- PRICED Y E A RL ING S I R E S COLT OR FIL LY OF 2019 TOP 15 Y E A RLINGS PURCH ASED BY

15 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

• Whitehorse & Bridlewood Farm

TO P SIR ES

SHI NE BRIG HTER AT SA RATOGA # OFFERED

# OFFERED

American Pharoah

7

78

Medaglia d’Oro

7

42

Candy Ride ( ARG )

6

57

More Than Ready

2

41

11

48

Pioneerof the Nile

9

46

Empire Maker

5

53

Quality Road

8

63

Flatter

4

31

Runhappy

4

47

Ghostzapper

6

34

Street Sense

5

47

Into Mischief

13

84

Tapit

6

30

Kantharos

2

38

Uncle Mo

9

69

Malibu Moon

3

48

War Front

2

28

Curlin

SARATOGA

KEENELAND

41 YEARLINGS S O LD F OR $500, 000+

• U P 1 7 % FRO M 2 0 1 8 !

HIGH DEMAND F O R Y E A RLI NGS BY BOTH P RO V E N S I R E S A ND YOU NG STA L L I ONS

TAPIT C.

AMERICAN PHAROAH C.

MEDAGLIA D’ORO F.

$1,000,000

$ 95 0, 000

$900,000

INTO MISCHIEF F.

FROSTED F.

PIONEEROF THE NILE F.

$850,000

$ 85 0, 000

$700,000

RUNHAPPY C.

CANDY RIDE ( ARG ) C.

TIZNOW C.

$650,000

$ 65 0, 000

$600,000

TESTIMONIALS “Sometimes it’s chicken. Sometimes it’s feathers. Tonight, we got a nice, big roasted chicken, with potatoes and carrots and everything.”

Arthur Hancock Stone Farm, Consignor of Co-Sales-Topping $1,500,000 Curlin Colt

“Saratoga is a different sale...Everyone is having fun, and there is a great

atmosphere. It’s a very vibrant place, and it’s always been a great place to sell and buy a horse.

”

Donato Lanni Bloodstock Agent

“

This will be a record year for us. We’ve never had two million-dollar horses in Saratoga. It’s very humbling, and it’s fun when it happens.

”

Conrad Bandoroff Denali Stud

“

A lot of buyers go over [to the track] and watch the races. It’s adrenaline.

It’s very unique. It’s one of the best things about Saratoga...You’re having the draft and then you go watch the Super Bowl.

”

Mark Taylor Taylor Made Sales Agency

“Fueled by nearly unfettered buyer appetite...The Saratoga Sale soared to record heights...”

The Blood-Horse 8.7.19

SELECTION TEAM INSIGHTS “Over the course of the last century, Saratoga has provided buyers and

sellers with unmatched results on the racetrack and in the sale ring. As we celebrate our 100th Saratoga Sale in 2020, offer your yearlings in what will be a one-of-a-kind event in the sale’s storied history.

”

Bayne Welker Fasig-Tipton Vice President of Sales

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