Fasig-Tipton enters his third yearling sale in California with an enviable track record in many categories. The sale already has a history of graduates winning or corporate stakes. Its numbers have been solid, especially given the pandemic circumstances of the 2020 edition. And this year’s catalog offers a host of living and active families associated with a force of bulls.

The 2020 edition of the sale saw 166 yearlings sell for gross receipts of $ 3,735,700, reaching an average price of $ 22,504 and a median of $ 10,000. Of the 256 horses cataloged, 90 have not reached their reserve. Naseer Fasihuddin was the top buyer in gross terms, buying 5 yearlings for proceeds of $ 420,000.

Grade 1 installations, Finneus embodies a large part of the success of the sale. The 2 year old Californian son of Stay thirsty by My Fiona, by Ghostzapper , surpassed the 2020 sale to $ 200,000. A winner at Santa Anita Park in June, the second time, the colt secured places in the Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1) and Best Pal Stakes (G2). Finneus has a full sibling in the 2021 Catalog, and the pedigree has continued to improve, as My Fiona is also the dam of the June 19 Melair Stakes catcher Fi Fi Pharoah (american pharaoh ).

Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Farm has consigned Finneus’ own Californian-bred brother as Hip 21 for sale, to be held at Fairplex in Pomona on September 28 starting at 12:00 p.m. PT.

Mike Machowsky, representative for Fasig-Tipton in California, said there had been heavy foot traffic at the points of sale in the days leading up to the sale.

“It’s a strong group of horses,” said Machowsky. “It’s been pretty busy, with quite a few coaches looking. Most yearlings are Californian breed, and if you want to race a cal breed, this is where you need to buy them. It seems that California breeders are supporting the sale of yearlings much more than 2 year olds. I’m also impressed with the number of people who have brought Cal-breds from Kentucky.

These Kentucky stallions range from proven bulls to new prospects. Munnings , among the best current stallions, has a stake-placed Cal-bred daughter Change rate Well Blessed mare in the catalog. Adrian Gonzalez’s Checkmate Thoroughbreds presented the filly, Hip 125, which was bought back for $ 67,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Mixed Winter Sale.

Checkmate is also the sender of Hip 161, a Kentucky-bred girl from Malibu Moon and a half-sister of Panamanian champion Bellamy V.

Nyquist is another proven sire with a cal-bred yearling in the catalog. Woodbridge Farm from Sue Greene offers Hip 83, a son of Nyquist from the Fusaichi Pegasus Soul Crusader mare. Since the publication of the catalog, There Goes Harvard, the 3-year-old mare by will take care of , finished second in the Runhappy Ellis Park Derby on August 15.

Tom Bachman’s Fairview Lot has a Cal-bred daughter of Look at luck out of the way Henny Hugues My Due Process mare, cataloged as Hip 20. The Fairview group also includes Hip 30, a son of the Californian stallion Eddie Square out of the way Jump start North Freeway mare. The Cal breed colt is a half-brother to Stakes winner Take the One O One and a full brother to Stakes Square Deal winner.

Bruno DeBerdt’s Excel Bloodstock has a Cal champion’s daughter Western coast , whose first foals are yearlings from 2021. Excel offers the filly, Hip 63, for PT Syndicate # 1. The filly is out of the stakes More than ready the mare Sandi’s Ready and is a half-sister to stakes winners Sandy’s Surprise and Mourinho.

Other prominent bulls with yearlings in the catalog include Payer American pharaoh and I will have another .

The Fasig-Tipton sale was well represented by winners who graduated from the sale or had siblings in the catalog at both the recent Del Mar meeting, and at Los Alamitos Racecourse, the Southern California meeting that ended on September 26. Los Alamitos’ closing day, the sales graduate Still thirsty won the Royal Owl Stakes, representing the sale, Father Stay Thirsty and shipper Lovacres Ranch.

Stay Thirsty is held at Lovacres in Warner Springs, California. Lovacres presented 20 yearlings by the stallion at the California Fall Yearling Sale, including Hip 246, a filly named Bus Buzz among the stakes winners. Bring the heat Lost Bus mare. A full brother of Bus Buzz, Erebus , sold for $ 110,000 on sale last year.

Although the Fasig-Tipton sale is primarily aimed at yearlings, it will also offer horses of all ages, including brood mares, potential broodmares and weaned young. One such potential brood mare is the winning mare Barbara Beatrice, registered as Hip 257. John Harris’ Harris Farms entrusted Grazen’s 9-year-old daughter, bred with a California stallion Smiling tiger .