Virginia-Bred & Raised Yearlings Attract Interest At Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale
The Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling sale was held at Saratoga August 7th & 8th and a number of Virginia-breds sold well. An Audley Farms Scat Daddy filly topped the list of Commonwealth-breds at $600,000.
A Smitten Farms Violence filly sold for $270,000 along with a Bodemeister filly for $190,000.
A Chilly Bleak Farms Uncle Mo filly sold for $250,000 and a pair of their Virginia raised colts did well — an Orb for $400,000 and a Fed Biz for $160,000.
The final two Virginia-breds sold were a Morgan’s Ford Farm Hard Spun colt at $220,000 and a Munnings colt from Jill and Ned Moore at $100,000.
In addition to the pair from Jim and Katie Fitzgerald’s Chilly Bleak Farm, another couple Virginia raised yearlings also sold well. Louisa Lenehan’s Tiznow colt went for $450,000 while a Verrezano filly from Andrew Motion’s Old Chapel Farm sold for $150,000. In the New York-Bred Preferred Yearling Sale August 12th, Chilly Bleak Farm also sold a Violence Colt for $210,000.